This newsletter is a sample of the work Sacro Occipital Technique Organization - USA is doing for the Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT) and chiropractic community supporting clinical care that is being threatened to be eliminated from manual health care.

While doctors in practice are using SOT, cranial and TMJ therapies on patients routinely, our research community is attempting to create a reductionistic methodology of what chiropractic or manual health care should be. Attempts are being made to standardize care, eliminate chiropractic techniques, eliminate the need for specificity of the manual treatment rendered, and question methods of care used for decades.

Some of this questioning is a good thing and will help us all discern the wheat from the chaff, and propel our techniques to higher standards with greater validity and reliability. But there is concern that with only limited information and research on most of our manual health care techniques, cranial technique included, that some researchers are all too willing to eliminate it without any further review.