Cranial osteopathy motions

William Gamer Sutherland was another student of Still. When the grooves in the suture of a temporal bone caught his eye, he was led to believe that the cranial bones mnst be capable of motion. He likened them to the "gills of a fish." He thns began the stody of cranial osteopathy and spent many years developing its theories and techniqnes, nsed today as a specialized form of osteopathy. 

Because the temporal bone is intimately involved in most TMJ cases, it must be evaluated and treated for any motion restriction found (see Section X, Cranial Osteopathy). Because the motion of the sacrum is closely related to motion of the cranium, evaluation and treatment of the sacrum may provide important help as well. 

Because ofthe close functioning ofthe sacrum with the cranial motions, the sacrum may also be used as an entry point for diagnosis and treatment of dysfunctions amenable to osteopathy in the cranial field. 

Because the medial third of the Eustachian tube lies in the temporal bone, it is important to free the motions of this bone. Osteopathy in the cranial field provides several techniques to assure that the motions of internal and external rotation of the temporal bone are free and symmetrical. Either direct or indirect techniques maybe used. 

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