Addendum from Dr. Gerry Graham:

I have been trained and worked with cranial respiratory adjusting since 1972 with AK.  I have been trained and experienced several other cranial adjusting procedures including Osteopathic and many other techniques.  There is not an MRI, or digital fluoroscope that is even close to having enough resolution to document cranial bone motion.  I have owned two of the finest digital fluoroscope units in existence and just to find ligament subfailures in cervical spines are not always obvious and that motion is many times greater than cranial motion.  Most medical doctors still think that the skull is one big bone by the time you reach adulthood.

 

I say this to state that clinical findings, improved function, symptomatic recovery, etc are the only methods of determining if the cranial therapy was successful.

 

Of course we are still just assuming that we are adjusting cranial plates in the first place.  I believe that they do move, but maybe the adjustment is more in the nerve than the bone.  I took the Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation (VOM) course from Dr.  Inmen and he made a statement that contained more chiropractic in-site than most chiropractors I have heard and he is a veterinarian.  He stated that the adjustment is made to the nervous system, not the bones.  Then the nerve may or may not change the structure or any other function the body needs to heal itself.  So are we adjusting the brain or the cranial bones, you tell me.  The debate is still on, however in a few seconds I can normalize all myotomes using a specific frequency in a carrier of 635 nm laser light.
Myotomes are muscles related to specific vertebra and thought to be the most specific method of identifying a subluxation.  I do not believe that light has the ability to physically move a bone like I can with my hands but I believe the nervous system can move bones many times better than I can with my hands.
Furthermore the photo and frequency biomodulation of the nervous system is extremely well documented.
Chemical properties that establish and change memory are fully documented and pulsed laser light has direct influence on all of those properties and functions.
Scientifically, it is easy to document how pulsed Low Level Laser therapy can correct cranial dysfunction than it is to prove adjusting the skull can correct cranial dysfunction. 

 

Of course cranial dysfunction is not the only thing Bio-Cranial Therapy is claiming.  From my understanding Bio-Cranial Therapy is about un torquing the entire body and removing stress by pulling on the dura.  Since early on they have known that the dura attaches to very specific places in the spine for specific reasons.  Bio-Cranial Therapy feels that by pulling and torquing the dura through the entire spine and body it will re-balance the body systemically.  So far the technique has showed a lot of promise and has resolved problems that other conventional therapy has been unable to correct.

 

Dawn discovered that by using specific frequencies and light she was able to biomodulate the function of the inner meningeal layer called the pia mater.  Light therapy has the ability to accomplish what is called amplification.  This is a cascading effect of once you activate one chromophore this will activate the cell, which activates other cells around it and so fourth until the effect is systemic throughout the body at least in the target tissue that was originally activated.  Therefore biomodulating the pia mater with the right photons, pulsed with the correct frequency and causing system therapeutic effects is based on greater scientific foundations than pulling on someones head.

 

Of course the final word is, does the patient's health improve, did you potentially harm the patient, and is it reproduceable with other patients with the same condition? 

 

Personally I feel that Bio-Cranial Therapy is a yes on two of the three since the extreme motion of the skull does have some potential for harm.  I know that the laser protocol for the same function is a yes to all three.

 

I felt so confident that Dawn was onto something great that we did some further research on the technique and feel that the pia mater is just one of the three meninges that needs treated.  The arachnoid and the dura mater also needs specific photon and frequency biomodulation to complete the entire process and I am confident that these procedures can produce better results faster than the Bio-Cranial Therapy with less potential for harm and pain.  We used the procedure on a patient that was in a seizure for over three days and they responded within hours and should fully recover.

I will soon be sending several research papers outlining the mechanism of functions of light therapy
and how it can change the function and help normalize brain and nervous system functions.

Thank you for forwarding me this question and I look forward to future questions.

Dr. Gerry Graham III