Dr. Brant Larsen.
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After more than 22 years of practicing chiropractic, cranial adjusting has become one of the most important parts of how I think about the body — not just a technique I add on at the end of a visit.
The biggest lesson: the body is connected
Traditional chiropractic care taught me to look at the spine as an interconnected system. Cranial adjusting extended that lesson to the skull, face and jaw. Two people can walk into my office with the same complaint and have completely different underlying findings — which is exactly why I don’t use a single protocol for everyone.
Where cranial work fits alongside spinal chiropractic
I don’t think of cranial adjusting as a replacement for spinal chiropractic care, and I don’t assume every patient needs both. My examination determines what I believe is appropriate for that individual — spinal work, cranial work, both, or neither.
Why I don’t chase every symptom back to the skull
It would be easy to overstate what cranial findings explain. I try not to. Just because I can find a cranial restriction doesn’t mean it’s responsible for a given symptom — that requires looking at the whole clinical picture and, importantly, reassessing after an adjustment to see what actually changed.
My training and experience as a chiropractor shape how I approach cranial work: assessment first, a technique chosen to match what I find, and reassessment to check my own reasoning against what the body actually does.
Related reading
See cranial adjusting vs. traditional chiropractic, or read why I practice cranial adjusting.