At Van Every Family Chiropractic Center, we do considerable cranial work, and it gets excellent results for our patients. Cranial care has been practiced across different cultures for thousands of years, and today a considerable body of clinical research documents that when your cranial bones are not sitting in their correct position, your physical and mental health can suffer.
Your skull is not one solid piece of bone. It is a collection of separate bones that stay distinct and mobile throughout your life, and when one of them locks up or shifts out of place, the effects can show up far from where you would expect.
The Skull's Composition
Your skull is made up of many separate cranial bones: eight larger bones that protect your brain, and 14 smaller bones that form the lower front of your skull. These bones stay distinct throughout your life rather than fusing into one piece, and each one has its own subtle range of motion.
The spaces between these bones are called sutures, and they are filled with connective tissue, nerves, and blood vessels. For your cranial system to function the way it should, those bones need to keep moving properly against one another.
What Cranial Subluxations Can Cause
When a cranial bone locks up or shifts out of its correct position, a subluxation, the effects can reach well beyond the head itself. Patients dealing with cranial subluxations have reported asthma, back and neck problems, depression, dizziness, facial pain, headaches, hearing loss, learning disabilities, and vision disturbances.
Cranial subluxations have a range of causes: trauma from falls, accidents, or sports injuries, severe emotional stress, environmental toxins, or a difficult birth and the prenatal stress that can come with it.
How Our Doctors Adjust Cranial Bones
Koren Specific Technique (KST) works directly on the cranium. Our doctors use a small handheld instrument that gently taps the cranial bones toward their correct position, releasing the subluxation and taking pressure off the brain, the spinal cord, and the nervous system as a whole. It is a quick, light-force procedure that patients from infants to the elderly typically find comfortable.
One of the benefits of KST cranial work is that corrections tend to hold for an extended period. Occasionally a cranial bone needs more than one correction, particularly after a severe head injury, multiple traumas, or dehydration, but for most patients a session brings lasting change rather than something that needs constant revisiting.
What Patients Notice
Patients who come in for cranial work often notice changes that go beyond what brought them in the door in the first place: fewer headaches, clearer thinking, steadier mood, and a sense that pressure they had been carrying, sometimes for years, has finally let go.
Take the First Step
Experience the benefits of cranial work for yourself. Our doctors see patients on Saturdays in Royal Oak.
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