Osteopathy in the Cranial Field

The indications for cranial treatment are analogous to those found in the general background of osteopathic practice, wherein structural malalignment with restricted articular mobility and tense ligamentous tissue disturb the pathway of the nutrient arterial stream of irrigation. In addition to the "supremacy of the artery," stressed by Dr Andrew Taylor Still, cranial osteopathy merely moves upward a step by indicating the nutrient cerebrospinal fluid as the primary irrigation of the "withering fields," as likely envisaged in the Founder's "Philosophy of Osteopathy."

(From the Foreword)