A Small Childs Skull

We can easily see that the joint/membrane compound located in-between the cranial plates is well defined. As the child grows older this cushion lessens and the plates gradually grow closer together. However, what if the child’s cranial plates are locked together or if there is relatively no joint/membrane cushioning present. This may be caused by a difficult birth due to pressure upon the cranium during contractions during the birthing process. The skull and cranial plates of a new born baby are very soft and moveable. The trip down the birth canal can jam and lock these cranial plates. A difficult birth where forceps are used may also lead to the development of cranial plates locking. Locking of these plates can also be caused by bumps on the head, from an auto accident or cases where a child has fallen down a set of stairs. This locking and/or shifting of the cranial plates is caused by an outside blunt force and is made possible by the adverse impact upon the head coming from any given angle/direction and is predominately possible when the person is breathing in. When a person takes a breath in the cranial plates expand ever so slightly. When someone is taking a breath in and at the same time receives a blow to the head or a jarring effect in the neck, back of head, body, due to a fall or whiplash it causes the cranial plates to shift adversely out of place. When outside force or impact is implied upon the head at this point, the cranial plates are vulnerable to miss alignment and lock once the person exhales. When a person exhales, the cranial plates contract, if they are indeed bumped out of place when the persons exhaling the cranial plates will become locked. Overall any impact directly related to the head, neck, or the spinal region will cause the cranial plates to shift and/or cause locking that will lead to dysfunction of the cerebrospinal fluid flow. This then leads and contributes to the condition of impairing and damaging/restricting the child’s abilities to have functional lime movement, hearing, speech, mental enhancement, and vision. It is true that there are children who are born without eardrums and who are born blind or both. In such cases or in cases where there is a defined brain dysfunction other steps need to be taken to insure medical and therapeutic means for the child. However, there are many cases that with, over time and with therapy can unlock the nerves and joints/membranes, allowing the cerebrospinal fluid to flow, thereby enabling the child to develop and grow in more of a normal fashion. I know this to be true because I was one of these children. I will talk more in-depth about this therapy later in this book. Right now we are in the picture painting stage. So that we can understand the diverse, essential functions of the cranial plates.

Craniosynostosis is a defined medical condition used to describe the sutures of the skull. Craniosynostosis is the joint/membranes in a small child that are either; closed, locked, compressed, or frozen. As described above this compression puts direct pressure upon the cerebrospinal fluid, therefore, when this happens in a child and in infancy it will cause diversions in the development of the brain. It will affect the normal expanding and contracting of the brain and normal skull growth. When the brain starts to grow and the cranial plates are locked it does not allow room for the brain to grow normally. Put the added pressure of the brains expansion and contracting cycles into the mix and we can see that the child’s neurological system starts to show signs of dysfunction. Since the cranial plates are locked and the brain is trying to force its way into growth it puts direct pressure on the cerebrospinal fluid and in turn puts pressure upon the whole system. This pressure can then build and adds up to the point where the nerves can be entirely pinched off. Lack of cerebrospinal fluid leads to stiffness in the child’s limbs, decreases mobility, may cause speech, vision, and hearing loss, and it drastically limits the mental growth capacity of the developing brain in a growing child. As well it leads to stunted growth and contributes to larger than normal head growth (water on the brain referred to as melon heads, the build up of cerebrospinal fluid unable to properly exit into the body.)

Let me purpose a question. Have you ever seen a child or a picture of a child, who’s sides of there head are narrow, the temple region right above and in front of the ears. Or it looks like there head has been put in a vice and squeezed? Many of us have, and though we try to ignore this dysfunction and try to ignore special needs, because it makes us uneasy, it does us well to understand why they are this way and look for a means to be able to correct this dysfunction. Indeed when we see a picture of a person either as an adult, child, or infant that has there temporal plates compressed thus making them appear like there head has been placed in a vice. We can easily say that there is adverse intracranial pressure upon the brain where the Sphenoid intersects with the right and left Temporal cranial plates, with the Frontal plate, and with the left and right Parietul plates, as well as with the Occipital plate. This adverse pressure varies differently in person to person, however the overall results are the same. It is the lack of cerebrospinal fluid flow due to locked/compressed cranial plates. If untreated, the child’s head and body will remain in a constant state of pressure that is unable to correct itself. This state of constant intracranial pressure is so great that in many cases sinus problems, headaches, and migraines. However, it also leads to life long disabilities, loss of hearing, loss of vision, loss of speech, neck disorders, spinal misalignment, loss of mental capacity to reason, as well as effects the normal growth of the child. Usually the longer these dysfunctions persist without treatment the longer it will take to correct itself once series of treatments/therapy begin. However, there have been cases where speech, vision, and hearing have been restored with only a small hand full of treatments.

Think of it this way, when our leg or foot goes to sleep and we finally realize it, it takes longer to wake it up by restoring blood flow and circulation than it took to pinch off the nerve to the leg that put it to sleep in the first place. The same is true with any part of the human body and the head is no exception. It takes time for the body to heal and it takes time to correct these dysfunctions. Results and improvement with treatments and physical therapy vary widely. Some improvements are immediately noticeable others take time even years to correct. The key is that there is a procedure, a non medical procedure that works to unlock these locked cranial plates and restores functional capabilities to those who have lost it or to those who have never had it before. [5, 6, 8, 7, 10, 13, 21]