What I know, what I’ve observed, and what I don’t claim.
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Headaches are one of the most common reasons people come to see me. That doesn’t mean I treat headaches as a diagnosis, or that cranial adjusting is the answer for every type of headache.
Headaches have many causes
Headaches can arise from a wide range of causes — some of them serious and requiring prompt medical evaluation. My evaluation is designed to identify whether cranial findings appear relevant to a particular person’s presentation, not to assume that every headache originates in the cranium.
Why I sometimes look at the cranium
A history of head injury, jaw problems, or facial trauma can be relevant to certain headache patterns. When that history is present, I include a cranial evaluation as part of a broader examination.
I don’t claim that cranial adjusting treats headaches as a category. Some evidence exists for chiropractic approaches to certain headache types, but that research doesn’t establish that cranial adjusting specifically is effective for headaches. New, severe, or unusual headaches — especially with other neurological symptoms — deserve prompt medical evaluation, not cranial adjusting first.
What I’ve observed clinically
In my own practice, I’ve seen patients with longstanding headaches following head injury who reported changes after cranial evaluation and adjustment. I share those experiences as individual clinical observations — not as evidence that cranial adjusting will produce the same result for someone else.
Related reading
See who is a candidate for cranial adjusting, or read about cranial adjusting after head or facial injury.