This week we are going to discuss a headache and headache treatment that is very commonplace but rather underdiagnosed – the cranial headache. Cranial headaches arise from injury, damage and ...

There are 22 bones that compose the human skull. These bones are like plates that join together at flexible joints called sutures. These joints are supposed to allow the skull to expand as the brain ...

CHARLESTON, S.C., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- At five months of age, Amelia Sandin of Charleston was diagnosed with craniosynostosis, a condition that leads to premature fusion of the cranial sutures, or ...

Craniosacral therapy, also called cranial balancing, cranial osteopathy, and craniopathy, is a treatment modality based on the concepts of cerebrospinal fluid flow and skull suture flexibility (the ...

Let's be honest: most newborns have funny shaped heads. It's okay to say it, it's perfectly normal. At birth the bones of the skull are in place but not fused together. The places where the bones meet ...

Compared to what we know about other joints and limbs, “we know a lot less on the craniofacial system in terms of mechanobiology,” said University College London biomedical engineer Mehran Moazen, who ...

Brandon Longtin loves to move around, is “joyful,” puts anything in his mouth and has a smile that lights up a room, his mom, Gretchen, says. The 7-month-old from Apache Junction hasn’t been slowed ...

Metopic craniosynostosis is a rare condition in infants in which a certain part of the skull fuses earlier than it typically would. The condition can range from mild to severe and cause long-term ...

Britain's Royal Mint released a slew of new coins on January 1, but the £2 one with a skull caught my attention -- not only because it's part of a set that honors William Shakespeare, but also because ...