There is only one way for the cranial mechanism to be normal. There are a million ways for it to be abnormal.
Most practitioners learn the normal. Far fewer learn to recognize, name, and undo the specific ways it goes wrong.
This fourth installment in the Advanced Neurofascial Release series takes the five aspects of the cranial mechanism and works through each one twice: first as it should behave, then as it presents when something has gone wrong. Inherent motility of the central nervous system. Reciprocal tension membranes. Cranial bone motion. Cerebrospinal fluid fluctuation. The core link to the sacrum.
For each, Dr. Davidson names the dysfunction and shows you the correction.
Inside the 47 minutes:
- Cerebral asynchrony and unilateral hemispheric motion, and how a one-sided cranium telegraphs itself all the way down the fascial planes
- CSF vortices, density changes, and force-factor patterns from trauma, including how to palpate the speed and direction of an old injury still running in the tissue
- Arbuckle’s cranial dural stress bands and the distortions they create at bregma and lambda
- Intraosseous strain in the sacrum and innominate, and dural tube adhesions in the core link
- The baseline range-of-motion screen used before and after every correction
- The “gelling” phenomenon, and why the right clinical decision is sometimes to send the patient home untreated
- A palpation exercise for developing whole-body fascial awareness that you can practice this week
