BioCranial treatment is a process used to unwind the body into its original and optimal design. It utilizes careful analysis of the body's shape, contour and balance system to determine the precise areas of the skull that need to be unlocked. This unlocking allows the connective tissues (including the meningeal system) to release their stored tensions and move the bony structures incrementally back towards the body's original design.

In traditional natural medicine, the emphases in healing are placed on detoxification of metals, chemicals and toxins, hygienic living and removal of infective organisms. Except for recovery from accidents and injuries, the physical medicine techniques like massage, physiotherapy and manipulation are used for pain relief.

With BioCranial care, long-term changes are the normal response, and the eventual result is an optimization of nervous system functions. What I have found is that many conditions thought to be biochemical, developmental or infective in nature have a previously unknown, correctable structural component. This means that conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, depression, migraines and scoliosis have a new approach in treatment.

To me, natural healing involves hygienic living (pure food, water, air, exercise, etc.), detoxification of metals, chemicals and toxins, treatment of infective organisms and optimization of structure. This is a paradigm shift in medicine.

The body has emotional, mechanical and biochemical functions. The nature of your biochemical lifestyle does not make much difference to your mechanical operation. It is similar to an automobile. If you have a collision with your car, it can't function normally until you fix the body, frame and chassis. Just replacing fuel filters and oil or adding gasoline will not repair the car after a collision. Thinking positive thoughts is important for our overall well-being, however, it will not take the dents out of our cars or our bodies. We have had many injuries during our lifetime; some major some seemingly minor. We also need the structural repairs. This is what BioCranial care does.

As BioCranial treatments continue, the benefits accumulate. The body continues to move closer and closer to its original blueprint. This means that the benefits become more profound as treatment continues. At first, symptoms of pain and obvious dysfunction leave. Later other beneficial changes are experienced as the nervous system and musculoskeletal systems optimize. This is the time when people note profound transformations in their personalities and in the way they think, feel and move and even look.

The brain develops the feelings a person has. The concept of separation of the mind and body, developed by Descartes in the seventeenth century, is not accurate. If this were so, ingesting drugs could not alter mental state. This is why counseling is used only for minor psychiatric maladies, and the severe psychiatric states are treated with drugs. With a severe psychiatric state, the brain does not work right! This is not a situation a person can be talked out of. This is also why tense, anxious people look forward to a cup of tea or a glass of wine or beer after a hard day. Do you know anyone who needs coffee in the morning to lift his or her morning depression? All of these examples are indications that the mind is a part of the brain/body function. Although it sounds more spiritual to keep it separate, in reality the spirit is housed in the body/mind. So changing mental function makes a person different in ways individuals cannot comprehend without experiencing it themselves. This can be accomplished through life experiences, both good and bad, both traumatic and euphoric, and created dependably through changing the shape of the head/skull with BioCranial work.

There is a growing population of people who continue receiving these treatments because of the personal growth they are achieving. Only a body that is operating nearly perfectly can achieve true spiritual growth, the sort that people dream about. How, for instance, can a person expect an imperfectly operating brain to develop psychic skills or achieve a state of bliss and peace? A necessary prerequisite is to optimize the function of our brain. When there is idealized flow of essential fluids, blood and cerebrospinal fluid, brain functioning can be optimal, if the other criteria are met. But a person seeking to become more perfect (by perfecting diet, physical, mental and emotional activities) who does not optimize the mechanical function of the skull and spinal structures can never achieve optimal function of the brain and body.

BioCranial technique optimizes the function of the brain and body. It treats the cause of many conditions. If you have chronic pain in the musculoskeletal system, the pain can go away by optimizing the musculoskeletal system. If you have a problem with brain function, BioCranial care can help by optimizing the mechanical function of the skull/brain.

Yes. I have rarely seen a perfect skull and spine. This means that some amount of treatment could be useful for most of the population, even though they may have no presenting complaints or symptoms.

It is difficult to know just how many treatments any person may need. This is for two reasons:

1. People have different reasons for seeking therapy--

For instance, some people seek care because of a specific pain or area of trouble in their bodies. For them, they will stop treatment as soon as their problem becomes less apparent. With simple conditions like sinusitis, as few as 4-8 treatments may stop the sinus problems. With other conditions, like dystonia or severe spinal problems, treatment could last sixty treatments without exhausting the potential for continued optimal improvement.

Other people have larger, less concrete goals when they receive therapy. If a person wishes to optimize their bodily functions (as I do) or they have serious or complicated conditions affecting their health, treatment can be more of an open-ended situation; they can get treatments over the course of a longer time period.

This is neither right nor wrong. Either of these plans can be right for the individual. Some people may even change their concepts as treatment progresses, and this is fine too. The nature of BioCranial treatment, with its typically long lasting results, allows a person to stop treatment at almost any time (after the completion of each treatment sequence)
2. Bodies change at different rates--

I have never seen or examined two people who had identical bodies. This is because people have different genetic forms and different life experiences. By the time people come to me for treatment, they are unique, individual structures. In a way, people are like puzzles for me to untangle. Some puzzles are easier to solve than others, and some people's bodies change more quickly than others. I never know how fast a person will change. I never know how much a person will move from a single treatment. I never know what tomorrow's treatment will cause or require. I simply, continually release the obstructions in a person's mechanical structure that prevents them from moving towards the ideal structure their body was designed to have, free of deformity of life's traumas.

Yes. Most people find it necessary to return for more than one treatment series to get the results they desire. For most, 16-20 treatments is a reasonable treatment requirement to evoke the change that produces the desired results.

Biocranial is scheduled to last about 25 minutes each treatment.

Each BioCranial treatment sequence tends to be long lasting. Most of the changes that accumulate can be permanent. However, most people are continually getting traumatized by their emotional life, the nature of their work/activities and by the therapies they may receive from dentists and others. For these problems, most people find that they need to get more BioCranial treatments intermittently.

Additionally, there is no reason to stop receiving treatment; nobody is perfect. As long as the head, spine and pelvis are not perfect, there is room for more improvement in the structure and the mind with further treatment. For those people who wish to be their best, BioCranial is part of the path to better living.

Consider those people who strive to become more perfect and develop psychic/spiritual abilities. How can they achieve these things with a brain that is not performing optimally? Of course it is important to perfect the lifestyle and the physical and mental activities of one's life, but without optimizing one’s structure, there will be a limitation on the amount of improvement available.

I predict that BioCranial care will become an important aspect in the developmental process for higher consciousness.

Without x-ray, many so called broken noses tend to be misdiagnosed. Many injuries are only displacements of the nasal bones. Endonasal balloons can be used to set a displaced or broken nose. This is often better than the common orthopedic techniques. With a true nasal fracture, after the bones are well set, BioCranial treatment should be delayed until the fracture is fully healed. In questionable cases, X-ray should confirm this. Generally six to twelve weeks is a sufficient waiting period.

Babies need to be born before BioCranial can begin, and the sooner they are treated the better. There is no upper limit for treatment, as long as the patient is still alive and stable.

It is best to eat only lightly before treatment. Sometimes treatment can feel very powerful, and it is more comfortable not to be full at that time.

Your appetite should be just fine soon after treatment. After BioCranial care you can feel slightly lightheaded for about fifteen minutes. Less than twenty per cent of the people have long-lasting effects like fever, cold symptoms or headache after that. Just eat sensibly (as you always should)!

The main job of the spine is to hold the body upright. This is particularly true of the neck and upper back. Holding the head in a stable position is the job of the neck bones and muscles and is especially important because most of the nervous system is housed inside the head. An unstable skull, which is one that doesn’t expand properly upon breathing and is not symmetrical, means that the center of the nervous system is unstable too. The chronic positions of the spine and its related muscles are determined by the nervous system's need to maintain skull stability. When the positions of the bones of the skull are changed, the balancing pattern of the head is changed. This causes alterations in the postural patterns of the spine and it’s muscles.

Nervous system functions are determined by the flow of blood and cerebrospinal fluid. When we use mood-altering drugs, they cause shifts in the flow of blood and especially cerebrospinal fluid, changing the amounts of neurotransmitters received by specific neurons (in the brain) and altering nervous system function. The shape of the skull and spine help determine the flow of blood and cerebrospinal fluid and thereby control nervous system function.

So when the shape and flexibility of the skull and its joints are changed, the shape of the spine, pelvis, hips, knees and feet are changed too; through this, the function of the nervous system becomes profoundly enhanced. So, when the structural shape is improved (or even optimized) the nervous system functions are improved (optimized) too.

Your cranial bones are not unbalanced, but their asymmetrical structural alignment and lack of suture flexibility can cause difficulties for the function of the brain and nervous system as well as the musculoskeletal structure. The bones are in their stable, asymmetrical alignment pattern because of the body's reaction to the physical, biochemical and emotional traumas it has been subjected to. The most obvious, common traumatic events that most people experience are a normal vaginal birth. The intense squeezing of the head during birth, known as cranial molding, almost always leaves its mark on the child and adult skull. This affects both skeletal growth patterns and nervous system function for the life of the individual unless it is removed from the system. Similarly, falls, beatings, sports injuries, motor vehicle accidents, surgeries, a wide variety of dental work and the like all have long-lasting impact on the nervous system and musculoskeletal system.

In the cranial structure, the sphenoid bone sits in the center. It is in contact with almost all the other bones of the skull through its contact suture points, which interlock but are not supposed to be locked. It is impossible to move any single bone of the skull without moving the bones adjoining it, eventually affecting them all; this is like a rippling effect when you throw a pebble into a still pond. The sphenoid bone is the strongest, the most difficult to get manual contact with, the most difficult to move, the most resistant to change; it is placed deep into the skull and is well protected as it allows the brain to sit above it. Without moving the sphenoid bone, no other cranial bone movement can last. It is only by moving the sphenoid bone that all the bones of the head can be moved because of the sphenoid bone's central location. And it is only by moving the sphenoid bone in a pattern that is correct, that the sphenoid bone can be moved in a lasting and meaningful way.

Bone is not rigid when it is alive, having instead plasticity that allows a small amount of bending under stress. Additionally, when functioning properly, a skull will have some movement capability in all of it joints, called sutures. In an ideal head there are no truly fused joints, despite what you may read in old anatomy books. The bones of the head are in constant motion. Dr. Viola Fryman, D.O. proved this beyond a doubt in 1962 when she measured the motions of the skull during breathing and chewing with many small sensors place across the bones of the head.

Neurotransmitters, an essential part of nervous system functioning, are chemicals that allow nerves to send signals amongst themselves. These chemicals flow across the gap between adjacent nerves as well as circulating through the cerebrospinal fluid, allowing distant nerves to communicate with one another, similar to a modem of a computer.

Drugs used to treat depression, like Prozac and Elavil, work by changing the amount of a neurotransmitter, serotonin, throughout the nervous system. Researchers find that increased levels of serotonin decrease feelings of depression. The problems with antidepressant drugs are the side effects on most people, including decrease in sex drive, increase in anxiety and other symptoms that were previously not found in the patient. My clinical observation is that these patients had poor distribution of the neurotransmitter rather than deficiencies (lack of secretion) of serotonin. If the distribution problems in the nervous system were solved, the depression would decrease or stop.

When I treat depressed people, there is a strong tendency for their depression to gradually goes away. BioCranial care optimizes the shape of the nervous system support structures, the bones of the skull and spine. With optimal shape, fluid flow characteristics of the blood and cerebrospinal fluid are idealized as well. The distribution of neurotransmitters gradually equalizes with care, becoming the distribution pattern we were designed to have instead of the distribution pattern our trauma histories have created. This is why good treatment results come about with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, seizures, learning disabilities, hyperactivity, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and others. All of these conditions have significant structural problems in the skull contributing to the severity of the disease.  Are we treating the disease itself?  No, not at all. We are working with the structures in a way that enhances nervous system function in a meaningful and lasting way.

Yes. Even though the stooping posture is considered to be a consequence of osteoporosis, age-related stooping is actually a simple change in posture. As the posture worsens, there is also bone loss. This is because bone grows most strongly in areas where the gravitational force is greatest and does not grow where there is no gravitational force. When posture is poor, there is less gravitational force in the bone because the musculature is helping to support the body. This means that there is less stimulation of bone growth when posture is poor. With essential changes from care, posture improves and the bones grow stronger again.

Posture changes because most postural problems are created from the spine’s difficulty in supporting the skull. As the head is positioned more forward on top of the neck, the head tips slightly forward and the body is pulled forward by the weight of the head, leading to a stooped posture. The role of care in this situation, then, is to change the position of the head relative to the neck, allowing a more balanced position of the head and greater ease of support by the neck. When this occurs, the spine is no longer in the poor posture.  Posture is the effect, not the cause.

The brain is very sensitive to these balance patterns that create posture. The entire pattern of musculoskeletal posture is determined by the awareness of the body’s position in space, and the semicircular canals of the ears are an important part of this process. When the semicircular canals are stimulated frequently, the brain must work harder. The nervous system doesn’t like this, and it responds by moving the musculoskeletal system into a position where less head movement occurs. This stable position of the head is known as our postural pattern. For many people, the postural pattern remains the same throughout their life. This is because the bones of the head are very stable, and these individuals had no meaningful stimulation that changed this cranial balancing pattern.

Your postural pattern is determined by your balance pattern. Subtle movements of the semicircular canals are highly perceivable by the brain. The brain wishes to be stable, and will change the position of the spine and muscles to insure stable positioning of the skull. It is only by changing the shape of the skull that the body’s balancing patterns can be changed, and in this way change the pattern of posture.

The endonasal balloons are inserted through the nostril into the top of the throat through one of the six passageways that are available. The inflating bulb is squeezed, pumping air into the balloon, and it puffs up in the nostril. As the air pressure in the balloon becomes greater, it presses outward against the bones inside the nose and upper throat. Eventually the pressure becomes great enough that the balloon forces its way into the top of the throat. At that instant the bony joints of the head are gently shifted and adjusted opened for a moment, and the tensions stored in the connective tissues surrounding those areas are released. The bone structures of the head now shift. The treatment unlocks the binding pattern in the skeletal system (rather like creating an earthquake), and the body begins shifting its pattern of stabilization.

The areas of the skull that I have found important for treatment can be generalized as anterior (shallow), intermediate or posterior (deep). This is important for the choice of the shape of the inflating balloons. To reach a deeper joint in the head, thicker balloons (greater gauge) are required. Shallower depths are reached with thinner balloons. These variations will make the treatment feel different to the patient at the moment of inflation, but the changes felt after inflation tends not to differ.

BioCranial care is a therapy technique that changes the entire structural system, including the bones and muscles. By using specific techniques, the tone of the muscular structure can be changed to allow a simpler skeletal alignment pattern. However, the bodywork alone is not sufficient to create long-lasting changes, because it treats only the muscles, and the balance pattern of the bones is the final factor in determining the chronic muscle tension and postural patterns.

The release of the muscles from their typical tension also releases tension inside the skull, spine and pelvis. This temporarily brings the bony structures closer to their ideal position, although in a manner that is inherently unstable. (Without appropriate bone movement, these changes are only temporary.) This means that the balloon treatment can be more effective and more comfortable because there is less mechanical resistance to movement of the bones toward their ideal position.

Yes. Active movements that are within a person’s normal performance range are helpful, especially balanced activities like walking, gentle yoga, tai chi or some kinds of swimming. It is important to stop exercising before much fatigue sets in.

If rapid progress is desired, treatment interval frequency should adjusted accordingly, based upon your initial findings. This is the most efficient use of therapy. Some people, who lack the time for travel, are concentrating treatments into smaller time capsules and this works satisfactorily too. But these concentrated treatments create the potential for temporary side effects from the changing structural patterns that are undetectable by the treating doctor; this can lead to painful postural patterns, however, this is a sign that the body is shifting and changing. This generally necessitates further treatment to help the patient get through it as quickly and comfortably as possible.

Yes. Please avoid potentially traumatic activities and extremes in emotions or fatigue. Common daily activities can be harmful soon after receiving treatment.

Any activity that stresses the muscles or bones in an unusual way can change the postural pattern, and before stability is achieved (after a treatment sequence) damage can occur. For example, if you are not a furniture mover, don't begin moving furniture just after completing a series of treatments. If you normally walk three miles daily, then walk three miles daily---don't decide to walk five miles because you're feeling so good. Stay consistent so that your body can adapt easily.

1.  The body is a self-healing, self-regulating organism.

2.  This control & regulation is directed by the Nervous System.

3.  Compromise to the Nervous System interferes with the ability of the body to adapt to it’s internal and external environments.

4.  These compromises result from chemical, mental and physical stressors.

5.  When these stressors manifest in spinal dysfunction, affecting nearby nerve tissue, it’s called a Vertebral Subluxation.

6.  When the spine is subluxated, the body is not at ease, setting the state for dis-ease.

7.  Because the Nervous System controls everything about the body, subuxation can produce whole body effects, both local and peripheral to the spinal column.

8.  Locating and reducing subluxations is the primary focus of chiropractic care.

9.  The essential chiropractic intervention is called an Adjustment.

10.  An Adjustment, in it’s many applications and techniques, is delivered with the intent of adding energy, which the body can utilize to correct itself.

11.  It is the body that knows what to do or not to do with the applied adjustment forces.

12.  Healing is a process dependent upon many factors, mostly outside of the control of the chiropractor.