OMM Treatment: Cranial Techniques

00:02 Cranial osteopathic manipulative medicine is a unique form of manipulation where you start by measuring the cranial rhythmic impulse.

00:09 The normal cranial rhythmic impulse is between 10 and 14.

00:13 And you monitor for expansion and contraction of the skull.

00:17 You monitor the motion, you monitor the symmetry, and it gives you information into what’s going on with the pulse.

00:24 It changes in different states, different emotions, and in different people.

00:29 So you know what the person’s normal cranial rhythmic impulse is and you help monitor it and note it.

00:35 And if there is restricted motion in the skull, flexion and extension of bones, interruption between the flow between the head and the sacrum.

00:46 Those are things that we could treat with gentle enhancements, gentle pressure, and holding of other areas of the skull so that full motion is returned.

00:59 So cranial osteopathic manipulative medicine is a distinct and unique form of manipulation.