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Two Research articles can be found by clicking here. Osteopathy in the Cranial Field as a Method to Enhance Brain Injury Recovery:A Preliminary Study, Dickerson, et al 2022 Effect of Osteopathic Cranial Manipulative Medicineon an Aged Rat Model of Alzheimer Disease,...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s NASA researchers seeking to make sure astronauts would survive safely in extended space flights conducted research that demonstrated cranial bone motion. The work of Toshiaki Ueno, MD, PhD led to Dr. Ueno presently at a special 2004 Cranial Academy Conference on cranial bone motion. Dr. Ueno’s images of the heads of the astronauts immediately before “blast off” and upon return, showed visual proof of cranial bone expansion.

Effects of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Children with Plagiocephaly in the Context of Current Pediatric Practice: a Retrospective Chart Review Study - Journal of Osteopathic Medicine Context: Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) is on the rise in pediatric...

OCAF Research Funding Policy The goal of the OCAF research funding initiative is to support quality research leading to greater understanding of the mechanisms of action for the effects of the application of Osteopathic Cranial Manipulative Medicine (OCMM), also...

Abstract Introduction Central to the osteopathic cranial field, and at the same time controversial, is the concept of a unique rhythmic movement believed to originate from a primary respiratory mechanism (PRM). Further, the PRM is reported to manifest as a cranial...

A 2009 study done by Wm. Thomas Crow, DO and Hollis King, DO, PhD, using state of the art MRI imagery analysis from NIH studied cranial bone motion in 20 health subjects. We found that the area within the skull at exactly the same coronal plane of the calvarium changed and was significantly different over 8 separate images.