Posts tagged cranial osteopathy
Tinnitus and cranial osteopathy

What causes tinnitus?

The different sounds (each person has a specific pattern/type) cause a change in the signal going to the brain which is responsible for processing everyday noise. This part of your brain is called the auditory cortex and if it is damaged it indicates that some different parts of the auditory cortex are not receiving the signals properly as before.

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What is cranial osteopathy?

Cranial osteopathy and sutures of the head

You may not have been aware of this before; But moving the bones of the head along the skull sutures is one of the few important conceptual components for physicians present in cranial osteopathy or craniosacral therapy.

The way the bones move expands and contracts the sutures (at least they are described as expanding and contracting), which is very similar to the process of our breathing in the chest.

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