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 ...

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 ...

Craniosynostosis is the early fusion of the cranial sutures, which poses numerous diagnostic and medical complications. It is a frequent abnormality that affects 3–5 out of every 10,000 babies. Single ...

What Is the Skull Made Of? The skull, also known as the cranium, is the group of bones that forms the head. While many people think of the skull as a single structure, it’s actually made up of 22 ...

To understand DP, it is helpful to quickly review cranial bones, sutures, fontanels, and neck muscles and consider how they relate to and articulate with each other. Figure 1 provides an overview of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgical repair of craniosynostosis typically occurs during infancy. The procedure has a high success rate with a very low risk of long-term side effects. Most babies go on to live typical, healthy ...