Individual clinical experiences from more than 22 years of practice.
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The cases below are real patients I’ve worked with. I’m including them because they show how I actually think through a case — not as proof that cranial adjusting will produce the same result for someone else.
Each case is a single clinical experience, not a controlled study. It doesn’t establish that cranial adjusting caused the outcome described, and it doesn’t predict what another patient will experience. See what the current evidence shows for the broader research picture, and what I believe and what I don’t claim for how I think about all of this.
The cases
- A Car Accident, a Fractured Skull, and Ten Years of Whole-Body Pain
- Thirty Years of Upper-Back Pain After a Teenage Head Injury
- Nearly Fifty Years of Headaches After a Car Accident
- Facial Paralysis After a Motorcycle Accident
- A Softball Catcher’s Shoulder Pain and a Dental Retainer
- An Athlete’s Back Pain and Breathing Difficulty
- Twenty Years of Knee Pain in a Runner
- Ten Years of Back Pain in a Teenager, Traced to a Difficult Birth
- Multiple Head Injuries and Chronic Lower-Back and Pelvis Pain
- A Gymnast’s Back Pain and the Nasal Bone Connection
- A Youth Baseball Pitcher’s Arm Pain and Orthodontic Braces
- Ten Years of Back Pain After a Wisdom-Tooth Extraction
These are drawn from a larger archive of cases I’ve documented over the years at DrLarsen.com.
Related reading
Read how I assess the cranium, or see why I practice cranial adjusting.