This week we are going to discuss a specific treatment type for trauma to the head and neck which results in headaches, neck pain, jaw pain and facial pain. When a patient is subjected to the ...

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 ...

Two new loci for premature fusion of the cranial sutures in humans suggest a common endpoint in osteoblast regulation, linking upregulation of phosphorylated ERK1/2 and TWIST1 haploinsufficiency.

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 ...

The diploic veins run inside the bones of the skull and leave channels that can be studied in osteological collections, in other words, in historical populations and fossil individuals. A study, led ...

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 ...

A "gene silencer" (technically known as small interfering RNA, or siRNA), locally delivered by nanoparticles embedded in an injectable gel produced through 3D printing, can switch off the defective ...

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 ...