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Good evening, dear friends! I'm glad to welcome you to the weekly regular series of our favorite TV YouTube Almanac, which will be dedicated to the development of memory, brain function, and improving blood supply—everything that you love so much. Well, let's get comfortable in front of our YouTube receivers. Bon appétit to everyone who is eating, and we are starting!
So, friends, the bones of the skull. To start with, listen to this story. Once, it happened in the city of Moscow. The daughter of the chairman of the CPSU Central Committee, or well, in general, some party—not the most powerful, the most important—yes, that is, some there. In short, in general, the daughter, let's call her Leod Mila, one day was just walking down the street in spring, going to the store, let's say, Magnet. She slipped, fell, hit the back of her head, and was losing consciousness. She opens her eyes, sees nothing—darkness before her eyes. They start treating her; they do everything—MRI, not MRI—all the tests that were available in the 70s. In the 70s, there was no MRI yet. They did everything, all the tests, everything under the microscope—there's nothing. Everything is perfect: no injuries, no brain injuries, no eye injuries; everything should see perfectly. The pupil reacts to light but sees nothing.
What to do? Everyone treated her all over the world. All scientists and the Civil Institute of the Brain, eyes, hands, legs—everything was checked. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York, London, New Delhi, Africa—all institutes have been visited. Nothing helps. What to do? The story's conclusion reveals itself to those who watch till the end.
As is known, our brain is located inside our skull directly, and British scientists have established that the skull itself is located on our neck. Therefore, the blood supply to the brain, everything that is located in the skull cavity, depends on the condition of the neck, to which we have already dedicated several of our series. But now we will talk directly about the skull, which we have undeservedly neglected.
The skull, not everyone knows, is not one solid bone. The skull is formed from two main parts: the facial skull anatomically and the cranial skull, which directly contains the brain. In the facial skull, which is located, as you know, there is the face, eyes, teeth, nose, mouth—everything in a row. We are not interested in this; what interests us is the content of our skull, where the brain is located.
So, friends, it's not formed by one solid bone but consists of, like a Lego set: the occipital bone, parietal bones, two temporal bones, also parietal, frontal bone—actually one, but at a very early age, there are also two of them or even four—all fused into one solid bone. There are even no seams left between them from pieces like this, and the sphenoid bone. We are talking about what forms the brain part of the skull; we are interested in this. We don't touch the facial part yet; there are also its own bones here, but we don't pay attention to this for now.
All these bones are connected by seams. These are such structures; you see here, you can also pay attention to them. Here they are, these little things. This is not some defect; this is exactly how the skull bones are connected with these sutures. Discussions are still ongoing between different directions. There are osteopaths, they're manual therapists, and they are constantly debating among themselves, especially such Orthodox manual therapists educated in traumatology and orthopedics, who laugh at the fact that osteopaths claim that the bones of the skull move.
In general, all osteopathy originally separated; it arose in America. The first theory that separated osteopathy from chiropractic—chiropractic is akin to manual therapy in Russia, but not well developed enough with average medical education or without it. It originated there in the 19th century; they were involved in all of this. One of them came up with the idea that the bones of the skull can also move. He developed his theory on this and began to develop osteopathy, but he was not well educated. However, he had good genes in the sense that his father was a preacher of some church, and he also applied these skills and was able to spread this teaching to the masses.
But then osteopathy came to Europe, where more educated people were able to formalize it as a science. Even in 2014 or 2015, in our Russia, they were finally recognized as doctors. Now they have diplomas; osteopath doctors are also treating people. They are not like before when it was unclear who they were. So, in general, they claimed that the bones of the skull move. There are also manual therapists—those who use these techniques, those who don't use them, and those who even conduct various experiments. They show, "Look, the hard brain membrane cannot stretch."
We are not at all interested in these disputes with you; let them sort it out among themselves. The most important thing for us is that our brain works like chess, like an accountant's computer where everything counts, like a calculator. We do not participate in their disputes; there is no difference. We just use what works—the methods that work, right? Isn't it right to avoid distraction while watching the video? For those who missed it, we leave a couple of comments, also three or four likes for the future. What if you missed the next video and don't watch it in time? What else is there? Aren't you ashamed to look into the eyes if you're not subscribed? You're watching without a subscription; you're still watching illegally. Subscribe right away! Several times! Subscribe your wife, also the kids—they'll thank you in old age; they'll give you water when you can't walk.
So, we got a bit distracted. Let's continue. The skull, when we grow up, in childhood, can form asymmetrically. In nature, there are no completely symmetrical people, although they might exist, but usually, they do not exist. The right and left sides usually differ; the load on the right and left sides is different. But there is an acceptable limit. You can be asymmetrical, but up to a certain limit. You should know your measure—don't be too asymmetrical, but don't be too symmetrical either. Don't strive for it; that is, you should balance within certain boundaries, like a rider on the back of the wind controlling the flow of rain.
So, friends, scoliosis—no one argues, yes? With scoliosis, the shape of the ribs changes due to different muscle tension. This can even happen, for instance, my oblique muscle here tensed up; the ribs even change shape depending on the tension strength. The vertebrae and spinous processes will realign. The same thing will happen with the skull bones. If you have muscles in childhood—specifically muscles—there are various theories about what affects the shape of the skull, what affects the movement of the skull. But more such, less fantastic, more, how to say, such a real together is that the muscles will affect the position of the skull, the shape of the skull, and the tension of the superorbital ridge.
Among other things, the tension of the superorbital ridge, varying on the right and left, can cause asymmetrical bony protrusions. The same thing will happen with the bones of the skull. The main muscles that will affect the position of the skull bones, the shape of the skull itself, are the two main ones that we will be interested in right now, which we will correct with you. This is the sternocleidomastoid muscle—here it is, powerful, disconnects, goes to the styloid process of the temporal bone. The trapezius and the neck extensor—not two, but three turned out today. The sternocleidomastoid muscle will be interesting for us; we will start with it because this is the muscle that works very poorly for almost everyone who has not specifically trained it in some way.
Typically, both muscles are underdeveloped, but one is even more so. The condition of this muscle can indirectly affect the condition of the carotid artery. It can even have an impact on the blood flow, on lymphatic drainage, on the stabilization of the cervical spine itself. It indirectly affects hearing because it attaches to the temporal bone, and it's better for it to be in good condition than in bad. On the temporomandibular joint, this muscle has a great influence.
Well, friends, here are the stitches—these so-called places where two adjacent skull bones connect: the occipital bone (it's at the back), two parietal bones, the temporal bone on the side, the frontal bone in front. There are sutures between each little bone. This is the sphenoid bone; these are its wings. We can notice it together, and these are the seams we will be working on together. You will roughly need to find the projection of these seams on your head. You probably can't feel them, but you might notice some bumps if your head is not very smooth.
It's easiest to find this middle seam between the two parietal bones. It's centrally located in the head, or roughly where you imagine the center of your head to be. You just put your hands in the center of your head; you immediately put both hands on both sides, and you go straight along this seam. Find it. Your task is to find painful areas on this seam and work them out. It's okay if you shift a little to the side, right or left, but when you go through the center of the head, usually this seam is a little deeper than the bone itself. It's slightly recessed in there, and perhaps you will find such areas on the head. Your task is to find painful areas along the seam on the scalp. Found it? Just linger, press down, and hold it with your fingers on this area. Create pressure, then move forward a little bit further forward. Make a slight movement to one side, then the other.
Here, you can also notice that in certain places, the scalp will not shift well. Your task is first to go along the seam, just find the painful points. Then, in the second stage, you start again, and now you start to shift the skin to the right and to the left. It may be that it shifts well in one direction but poorly in the other. If you don't feel anything, if your fingers are so calloused, then you simply take and shift the skin right and left, in one direction or the other, but in such a way that nothing there gets torn—the hair remains in place—so that you don't crush your hair follicles with this movement. You move it right and left and from side to side.
Then you do the same thing up and down, forward and backward. Also, you found and fixed your fingers, put them in the seam area, and now make a movement forward and backward, up and down. In general, it depends on what position you are in. You also go along the seam, moving your fingers forward and backward. Notice where your skin moves worse; stay longer at this place, move a little longer, and go over the entire seam like this. We have worked through one seam with you. The same principle, as you guessed, applies to all the others.
The second seam that we will subject to such an attack is the seam between the occipital bone, the parietal bone, and partially here also the temporal bone. It will be subject to our influence. Here, you can find the projection of the seam with two fingers. It will be like this; here, for example, you can orient yourself on your own crown. Also, the most indented area there can usually be, or there will be a protrusion on the occipital bone. Here, for some, it is more pronounced; for others, less pronounced. On the occipital bone itself, here it is small on this little bone, but here it is significantly larger. That is, it also depends on how much the muscles are developed, the fascia are developed on the neck. There will be this bump of different sizes.
From it, you found it on the back of the head, and from it, you can also move up the center, and you will come to a place where your fingers will sink a little. They go in foolishly but not very deep, and from this place, you will go right and left. The same thing: your task is to first find the painful areas on the seam itself, work it out in the same way—press down and hold. Secondly, you start to shift your skin along the seam itself. It won't work right and left here; a little diagonally, and you will make an up-down movement. Simply put, no need to strictly adhere to angles here; nothing terrible. But you also affect the tendon sheath itself; also eliminate adhesions if they are there.
That is, if once, for example, you hit your head, it is also possible that such areas form there after a subcutaneous hematoma forms, where your skin, subcutaneous tissue, and tendon sheath can fuse together. This will not cause you problems, of course, with brain function, but it can cause various strains of the fascia, and this can even be the cause of headaches that are not related to blood supply. But in this way, they can also be well eliminated.
Your task is to work through these two seams in three ways right now. Firstly, press and hold. I'm saying this for the third time for those who didn't get it before. The second way is you move along the seam axis. Next, it's perpendicular to the seam. This is where we use our hands to manipulate the actual seams of the skull. As we discussed, this plays a significant role in shaping the overall form of the skull. Muscles greatly impact childhood, and by the shape of the skull, you can tell which muscles a person didn't use during the period when they were growing, which ones were under a lot of strain.
In this way, we can also—if childhood is over, it's not a big deal. Generally, muscles haven't improved since childhood; they're not great. In short, we understood the significance. Now we do it. Look, the movement will be like this: for those whose head is too heavy for this muscle, this is the first exercise option. You lie on your back, turn your head, for example, to the left, but don't turn it all the way—about 45 degrees. From this position, you start to lift your head. You lift and lower. If it's tough, you bow your head fully; if it's not too hard, you don't lower your head all the way. Here, you do this movement until you're tired. Your first set might even be 15 times, maybe 20. The second one will be slightly less.
Then you turn your head the same thing in the other direction. That is, this is for those whose muscle is very weak. Lift the head like this using two muscles at once. It's not advisable to train because they often differ from right to left. For those whose muscle is not so weak as to support the weight of the head, or after some time, once you've done this version, you can make it more difficult. Look, the movement is like this: you put your hand, but you will not press your hand on your head. You put your hand roughly forward from your ear, and you will move in the direction of your elbow.
This is not the exercise that they hand out to you on pieces of paper at the clinics—press here, here, and here. This is a different exercise, completely different. Just put your hand down; it will just lie there with you unpressed. The weight of your hand will be enough. Here, you turned your head, put your hand down, and the pressure—the movement itself will be towards the elbow. It will be harder to do it than without a hand because here you will have a load not only on the upward movement but also on the reverse movement. In this way, you also make movements. Essentially, you can do it until fatigue sets in from one side and from the other side.
In this way, you train the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The pace of the exercise is also quite fast; that is, you don't need to do this exercise slowly. The main point is to pump this muscle with blood so that it finally gets there because practically in life, it doesn't get any load. In this way, with such exercises, we begin the restoration of our brain.
Congrats, friends, to those who watch till the end and heard the story's continuation. It is connected to our skull bones, right? What to do? In general, nothing helped; suicide is needed to terminate life. In general, Leod Mila decided not to die at home. They went somewhere to a sanatorium—in general, not to a sanatorium; they had some kind of treatment. Again, also nothing is clear. The professors there are unsure of what to do. We don't know. In general, they say, but she thinks, "Okay, I'll see in the next life; let's finish in this one."
And she leaves through the window. She opens it and leaves. She fell forward, disregarding that there was still a balcony there, and she hit her face just like that—boom! She hit it just like that. She fell vertically, horizontally, right on the floor—nose and forehead all crushed. She opens her eyes, sees everything—vision is one, completely ready for military duty. What happened? No one could understand anything. But then they came to a conclusion that when she hit the back of her head, something happened specifically with her skull bones. And when she hit from the other side, something happened again with her skull bones.
That is, they came to the conclusion that some kind of skull suture compression occurred, and this indirectly affected the brain in some way. And when she hit from the other side, this compression healed spontaneously. Such miracles happen, dear friends!
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