The Cranium is the portion of the skull that houses the brain.  The cranium is not one solid bone.  The cranium consists of a single frontal bone (forehead), occipital (back of the head), sphenoid (butterfly shaped bone behind the eyes),  ethmoid (medial wall of the eye socket) and paired temporal bones (around the ears, back of the temple) and  parietal bones (above the temporal bones back to the coronal suture and the sagittal suture).   These bones articulate 6 – 12 times ...

I have had a client come to me for massage to work on whiplash issues related to a fairly severe auto accident which happened a year ago.   After 3 appointments she was getting relief but there was still some vague area she could not describe but that was not being addressed.

I suggested she try a cranio-sacral therapy.

I have heard people explain cranio-sacral therapy as the human version of a computer soft reboot.  There is much more science behind ...

Levator scapula is one of the muscles of the neck.  The origination points are at the  first through fourth transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae.   The insertion points for the levator scapula are the superior angle and the medial edge of the scapula.  There are several  movements this muscle allows including extending the neck and head.

When we sit for hours in front of a computer or spend hours reading  the levator scapula can be held in a stretched position ...