IN – BETWEEN
Then and Now
The 1960’s
International Cranial Association
founded in 1965
As early as the 1960’s, Sutherland’s Cranial Concept
was traveling across the Atlantic.
In the 1960’s, English osteopath Denis Brookes
started training osteopaths in the UK and France about cranial osteopathy.
Brookes’ had visited the USA to study with Howard and Rebecca Lippincott,
who had set up a study group based on the teachings of WG Sutherland,
the osteopath who founded cranial osteopathy.
In 1965, inspired by Denis’ teaching, Joseph Goodman and William Wright
founded the ICrA, and Denis taught early members.
It was known at that time as the Cranial Osteopathic Association.
1970’s and 80’s
The 1970’s and 1980’s saw the beginnings of
advancement of The Cranial Concept
into other manual health-care modalities.
Teaching, Training and Transformation
Evolution
In 1986, The Cranial Connection was
recognized by the American Academy of Osteopathy.
This paper ‘attended’ an annual American Academy of Osteopathy convocation in the hands of my osteopath who was most appreciative of my research project. The positive response of his colleagues prompted the publication of The Cranial Connection (1986). This synthesis of published material became a professional introduction to the anatomical and physiological basis of Osteopathy in the Cranial Field. Osteopathic medical schools offered copies in their book stores and it was used as an introductory text for over a decade at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. The AAO invited me to their Seattle convocation where they hosted a “Meet the Author” recognition reception.
This was during the era BEFORE the internet. Over the next several years, around 5,000 copies circulated around the world. I received notes of thanks from medical doctors, osteopaths and dentists as far away as Australia, China, Austria, Germany and Brazil.
Beyond the 1990’s
Since the worldwide blossoming in the 1980’s,
the Cranial Concept has traveled around the globe.
Within the context and outgrowth of
The Cranial Concept
there is international recognition and validity….
Results
Evidence-based Medicine
If there is no movement within the sutures of the skull,
what is happening to produce this ‘phenomenon’
discovered by William Garner Sutherland
that has worldwide reverberations and results in the 21st century?
Is the “WORLDS” View changing?
“Absence of Proof
does not necessarily indicate
Proof of Absence.”
John Upledger, DO
