Dry Bones (Concepts) (Report)
By CRANIO: The Journal of Craniomandibular Practice
- Release Date: 2011-07-01
- Genre: Engineering
Description
Many of you are old enough to remember the lyrics of an old song that came out many years ago called Dry Bones. Although the song's lyrics (James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938) were written tongue in cheek and with some religious reference, it taught us: "the back bone is connected to the neck bone, the neck bone is connected to the head bone, etc." The song went on and on and on, relating every part of the skeletal structure to the other. For those of us who have been involved in the treatment of craniofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders for any length of time, the lyrics do still ring surprisingly true. Although bureaucrats and state boards have compartmentalized the human body into neat segments, each to be supervised and managed by a different provider in our healthcare system, our creator's plan for us was not so simplistic. Those of us who have taken the time to critically observe now know that modifications in the craniomandibular relationship can effect changes in the cranio-cervical relationship and, of course, vise versa. We also know that cranio-cervical posture can effect the posture of the spinal column, and that there is a relationship between cervical postural and lumbar posture. These facts have been accepted in the chiropractic and osteopathic professions for years.
