Curing
Concussions:

The skull is not a singularly-fused structure. It’s comprised of twenty-two individual bones, each connected by their interlocking grooves and beveled edges; called sutures. These sutures are not fused, rather they function bio-mechanically as a complex series of joints; allowing each of the individual cranial bones to shift subtly, in micrometers, so that collectively the entire skull can articulate to accommodate for the rhythmic motion of the brain, motility of the nervous system and fluctuations of cerebral spinal fluid.

Dr. William Garner Sutherland, D.O. (1873-1954) examined the inter-workings of the cranium and theorized that the brain is in a constant state of rhythmic motion. In 2018, Stanford University detected and recorded this ‘pulsation’ cycle of the brain using video MRI technology. This discovery proves Sutherland’s theories and can be seen on Stanford’s website by following the link below.

The rhythmic cycle of the brain can be broken down into two phases; expansion and contraction, with each phase lasting approximately 6 to 8 seconds. As the brain expands, it pulls the spinal cord and all of the peripheral nerves in an upwards motion; reaches it’s fullest extent of motion then begins to contract elastically releasing the entire nervous system back downwards. This cycle repeats continuously.

Additionally, Sutherland hypothesized that this rhythmic expansion-contraction cycle of the brain is the pumping mechanism which controls the fluctuation of cerebral spinal fluid. As the brain expands it draws CSF from the arterial blood flow through the dilation of the choroid plexus; a spongy membranous wall lining within the lateral ventricles. As the brain contracts, it pumps and secretes the CSF from the lateral ventricles into the subarachnoid space where it circulates around the brain and spinal cord within the dural membrane.

Head impacts can cause misalignment of the cranial bones which affects the bio-mechanical functions within the sutures of the skull; trapping the brain and nervous system in a dysrhythmic state of spasm. I believe this is the cause of post concussion syndrome. Furthermore, my work is proving that PCS symptoms can be reversed by manually realigning the cranial bones.