Dr. Dean Howell Introduces NeuroCranial Restructuring® Therapy So You Can Understand This Amazing Therapy That Has Helped Many People Just Like You

Click Play to listen to an introduction to the benefits of NCR®.

With NCR®, as we call it, we can treat conditions from headaches to double vision to sinus problems, sleep apnea, TMJ, bite problems like open bite, sometimes cross-bites. We can help people with orthodontic problems as they see their orthodontist as well.

We work whiplash and other neck pain problems. We work with hunchback, sway back, military spine, where their spine is too straight, and all of these kinds of conditions along with distortions of the face and facial wrinkles and the general postural problems.

All of these conditions can be treated with the same generalized kind of therapy when it is specifically applied to their bodies. And, this technique is NeuroCranial Restructuring® with a combination of deep body work, appropriate external cranium manipulation, careful proprioceptive analysis of reflexes throughout the body in order to figure out specifically how to move the deep bones in the head.

With this combination we can make a technique that is permanent and cumulative. To me, it is the most exciting thing to be able to offer any of you in physical medicine today and that is why we call NeuroCranial Restructuring® the ultimate cranial therapy.

Click Play to listen to part one of an in-depth discussion of how NCR®works by Dr. Howell.

It’s a binary kind of relationship. Either bones or muscles are out of place and tight and painful or they’re in the midline and they’re good and they feel good. It’s an out or in situation.

It’s rather simplistic and yet it underlies physical medicine for physical therapists, for massage therapists, for chiropractors, for osteopaths, for naturopathic doctors. For the medical doctors that specialize in physical medicine, they are called physiatrists.

For all of us, it’s a binary situation. Bones and muscles are out or in. So, the way that we would work with bones would be if they were out of place, we would devise different techniques to push them back in.

And that’s how I was trained when I went through medical school as well. And when I started in practice, I started finding out that for many people it was a short-term relationship.

I would push the bones and we released the muscles so they would go into place and two or four weeks later, most of those people would return and say, "Doctor, you did that very well. Would you please do I again?"

Well, when I went to talk to my instructors, who were men with 40 or 50 years in medical practice and asked them what I was doing wrong, for the most part their conclusion wasn’t that I was doing something wrong, it was instead that these patients were chronically injured. That chronic injury was preventing these people from being able to in their terms hold an adjustment which meant that they would never get well. And it was my job to give them relief from pain and to continue treating them again and again, ad infinitum. On and on and on.

Well, there was something about that that bothered me. It was kind of like a bell going off in my head, saying that what they told me was wrong.

I knew somewhere that there was a solution. I knew in my heart there was a solution for these people and there was a way that they could be made better. That they weren’t really injured that much.

It didn’t seem right that a person with a reasonably minor car injury, where they sustained a whiplash in the neck, that 10 and 20 years later, they would have still have headaches virtually every day because of, you know, a situation where they didn’t even sustain a broken bone.

Well, the conclusion of my findings is what we call NeuroCranial Restructuring®. And the way that that idea developed is easier to talk about with a model than it is just to use words.

So, I brought along my friend. This is not Igor, in fact it’s not poor Rorick. It’s not even Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. It’s a plastic skull. And, if you start looking at the skull, you can see how complex the relationship of all the bones are. And how much they interlock.

Do you see the bone that is colored with the red pen here and here? And when I turn the head to the side, it’s here. When I turn the head upside down, it goes all the way in from the hard palette, in behind the nose and comes up against the back of the head, the occiput. Do you see how complex all those joints are?

Let me go further. That same bone is here inside the head. This bone is called the sphenoid. The sphenoid bone as you can see sits in the center of the head.

Virtually all the bones in the head are in contact with that sphenoid bone. Anyone that says they can move the skull in a way that’s going to last must be changing this sphenoid bone.

And yet, as it is obvious from showing you, you can’t get your hands on that sphenoid bone. This bone is the most crucial part in NeuroCranial Restructuring®. This is the key to how we can change the entire body.

What I found, when I was working with patients before and I would work with their spine and other problems in their bodies and I would work on individual bones in their back and in their pelvis, the body kept reverting to type because that function, the pain, the mobility, these were minor considerations compared to these structures more important jobs.

The main thing that the spine is there to do is to hold up your head. To your body, the most important part of your body, even though you need your heart and lungs and liver, in order to live, the most important part of your body is your brain. Remember, if you cut off your arm, you are still you. If you cut off your head, you cease to exist.

So, just like a computer, your head doesn’t want to jiggle. Have you ever tried to add up a column of figures when you rode your bicycle down a stairway?

You know that what you normally do is to hold on. That’s about all you can do. You can’t really think about anything else. You can’t multi-task like a modern-day computer.

You can instead just hold on. But, when you are sitting comfortably in your chair and thinking, you can be listening to the TV, you can be hearing people in the back of the house talking, and meanwhile you can be reading a book and even thinking about something else all at the same time because you have a magnificent computer and it sits inside.

Your body wants to protect your brain. So, in order to prevent it from jiggling, what we do is we arrange the bones in our spine and pelvis into a position that stabilizes the skull. And that stability requires the bones to not be in the mid-line most of the time because the head is balancing on top of these two balance points.

These are known as the occipital chondyles. And this, these two points are where your neck meets your, your head. Sort of like my fingers, okay? You are balancing on top of them.

Click Play to listen to part two of an in-depth discussion of how NCR®works by Dr. Howell.

If instead, your head has slid back a little bit, so that it wants to roll this way, as if it were on a teeter-totter, you see, then you get too much neck curve. And most of the time, you will develop a sway back as well.

If your cheekbones are at a slant and your forehead is at a different slat or rotation, you will start having a more difficult head to hold up, and your spine will start to spiral. This we call scoliosis.

Are you starting to see the idea there? The idea is that the lack of symmetry in your head creates these changes in your spine and pelvis in order to hold up your head. So the key becomes, how do you make lasting change in the head?

And the way we make a lasting change in the head, because of the way these bones all interlock, is to work on the sphenoid. Because, the sphenoid sits in the center.

So, if we do something to move the head into a different place, say just working with the forehead for instance, those bones are not going to move into this new position unless the sphenoid moves as well.

Yet, we cannot come into contact with the sphenoid, except here in the temple and here inside the mouth. Those are the only places accessible from the outside.

This means that most cranial manipulation techniques are lucky to make long-term changes in the head. And they require many repetitions in order to get those lucky instances.

But, with NeuroCranial Restructuring®, we use small balloons that go through the nose, through here, and into the top of the throat, and inflate them briefly, and that balloon pushes on the sphenoid bone.

And, that moment is what permits us to start, by carefully calculating where it should move, that allows us to slightly rock the sphenoid in different directions.

So that rocking motion, when we harness the connective tissue inside the head, the meninges other connective tissues in here are bunched up like springs.

And, so when that sphenoid bone moves a small amount, that connective tissue’s spring unleashes, and the bones start returning towards their original design. Because, you see, being born and living our lives, having dental work, playground accidents, car wrecks, accidents and falls and beatings, these kinds of situations tend to compress the head bones so that we have a distortion in our skull structure and a distortion in the connective tissue.

So, as we unlock the sphenoid, that connective tissue, like a spring, starts expanding and the head starts moving incrementally, a step at a time, back toward its original design. And that accumulation of all those movements are what we create in the day-to-day actions of NeuroCranial Restructuring®.

After you consider the differences in the concepts underlying NeuroCranial Restructuring®, when you compare it to other physical medicines, the differences between NCR®and most physical medicine therapies should be obvious.

What we do with NeuroCranial Restructuring® is to unwind or unlock the structures that have been damaged repetitively through our lives by incrementally unlocking your structures and letting your body return to its original state.

We optimize the function of the brain and the nervous system, and return the bone structures to their positions as they were designed to be in. So that flexibility, chronic muscle patterns, pains, these go away without having to treat them as pains.

We can treat a wide variety of conditions. We can treat nervous system problems, we treat mechanical problems of the skull, so we can treat TMJ, breathing problems, double vision, occlusion problems of the bite.

As the head shape optimizes, it gets simpler and simpler to hold up the spine. So spinal growth problems like whiplash, swayback, hunchback, scoliosis, those can all be addressed as well. As these structures start to move towards their optimal positions and the pelvis rotations and twistings start to change, and this causes the leg length to even out.

It will take care of gait problems as well. So many problems are addressed with a conceptually simple therapy because we are right at the core, right at the root of problems. This is one of three things that you want to work with in order to achieve optimal health.

You need to work with your structure and NeuroCranial Restructuring® to me is the optimal technique to work with structure. But, we also need to work with biochemistry. So, this has to do with diets and lifestyle and helping correct vitamin deficiencies with vitamins and minerals, that kind of stuff.

And finally, detoxification techniques so we want to get rid of petro-chemicals and heavy metals and certainly bacteria and viruses and things as well. So with those three items being taken care of, the biochemistry, the detoxification, and the structure, you have a firm tripod, a foundation for you to build your health. So you see, to me just nutrition alone or just structure alone, is not enough.

We call NeuroCranial Restructuring® the ultimate cranial therapy because this is a physical medicine technique that deals with the cause of your nervous system and muscular strength conditions rather than just the effects. We are not interested in just giving you relief.

When we perform NCR®on you, we want to gradually reverse the trend of deterioration. We want to get rid of the effects of car accidents and falls and beatings and the adverse reactions to various other therapies, and we can do that, a step at a time by using the NCR®therapy techniques.

So, conditions as diverse as headaches to sciatica, and from sleep apnea to anxiety, can all be treated with the same individualized and very particular kind of therapy.

This is not a shotgun style therapy. We will not be able to treat everyone the same way. Each day, each person’s treatment is entirely customized.

And, because we work with you in that individual way, we can bring you back towards your structural and nervous system optimized function.

This is a wonderful opportunity for you, and for me. It makes work fun. I love coming to work because of the way we can help almost anybody that can come in the door.

I go to the shopping mall and all I see are people that don’t feel good. And with NCR®, you do feel good, and I think you should try it soon.

Click Play to listen to part one of an in-depth discussion of NCR®treatments by Dr. Howell.

These sections would normally be performed by a massage therapist. Then, later we will have the patient turn over and I will show you some of the work that I would be doing on my patients. Then, we will go further. Do some external cranial work and then the most important parts of the therapy will be some very specific testing. And the treatments with the endonasal balloons.

Now, we are in the spinal integration phase and you can see me working very deeply on parts of my model's low back and buttocks. It is very important how this is done because the therapist needs to be able to feel the energy flowing between the different contact points in the patient's back. So, this is not a random therapy.

As this treatment accumulates, what happens is that we start seeing more symmetry in the shape of the spine and pelvis. We are very interested in how the legs and hips track together so that we show a lot of symmetrical movements as the skeleton moves into a more symmetrical treatment position.

Working on the pelvis is extremely important because of all the connections between the skeleton and the skull. From the pelvis to the skull there is connective tissues that will go along the length of spine and go through the inside of the head so that working on the head and the pelvis are sort of working on opposite ends of a puppet with strings.

Now you can see me at this point working with deep muscle pressures on my model's upper back because so many of these muscles, when they are tight, will prevent the skull from being able to change as we do external cranial work or the more important internal cranial work.

Remember all of these treatments are designed to combine so that we can move the innermost bone in the head, the sphenoid bone. Because, as the sphenoid bone can be changed, we get permanent cumulative changes rather than more temporary changes of trying to correct all of these other structures.

Click Play to listen to part one of an in-depth discussion of NCR®treatments by Dr. Howell.

You see, most people think that they have a front and a back, and they forget that between the front and back, there's a middle. It's very important to work on the middle if you're trying to get the entire structure to become more symmetrical.

As the structure becomes more symmetrical, then the changes that need to be made in the skull become more and more apparent. And when they're made, the body moves into a new stable, symmetrical pattern, and there's no reason to revert to the old patterns that were visible in the past.

This is an advantage over most physical medicine techniques which tend to have a person return week after week in the same pattern that they've been in the past, and then get temporary relief. See, what we really need to do is to make permanent change. And that can only be done an increment at a time.

So, to create this incremental change, we need to initially release the structures through the spine and pelvis. And, then as those release, the head is easier to move. And, then when we get the deep bones in the head to move, especially that sphenoid bone that I previously mentioned. As that occurs, then we get permanent change...permanent, small, incremental changes.

Now you'll see me using my hands on the forehead and at the base of the skull, pressing with actually a lot of pressure to start to move the external cranial bones so that when it comes time to use the endonasal balloons, we need to use less and less pressure to create all the changes that we're trying to do.

In the past, before we understood these things, we would use much greater pressures on the head because we weren't doing the appropriate preparation of the skull, spine, and pelvis, and because we weren't using assistants to help us position the patient in very precise positions.

So, even though I'm using a large pressure here, at times pressing with more than 50 pounds of pressure between my hands, for most people this treatment feels good. And they really like this part of it most of the time.

What's another important thing to realize about this therapy is that we do not need expensive equipment. This work is mainly done with the therapist's hands on a basic therapy table. Because, we were not at my home clinic for this demonstration, we are using a simple massage table.

As for the endonasal work that we finish the treatment with, it's less than $100.00 for all the equipment set that we require. So you see, what you're paying for with this therapy is the expertise of the therapist, not the expensive equipment.

As my model's head gets to a more symmetrical position, it becomes more apparent as to which muscles in the neck and shoulder area need to be stretched and released so that the changes in the skull will be easier to accomplish. So, you can see me stretching the neck/shoulder area on the right and again on the left.

As you may note, I'm continually checking the left and right sides, measuring the positions of the occiput, the base of the head, the ears, the eyes...always trying to enhance symmetry.

Because we are also working on the back, we must work on the front. And the front of your spine is accessed through the abdomen.

This is trickier work, and work that I generally do myself rather than have my therapist help. You can see I'm pushing deeply through the intestines and abdominal area, pushing on the deep muscles of the spine where those muscles come from the front spine, go through the pelvis, and into the thigh.

And, as I release those muscles, we will see changes in the position of the pelvis and spine. And through the connective tissue from the pelvis/spine area, we'll actually be making changes in the head as well.

Adding this work to NCR®, which has been done just since the spring of the year 2000, we've had patients make great changes in their overall digestive function and hormonal balances.

I had one lady that maintained that she lost 12 pounds just from having these deep abdominal muscles released from their spasms prior to the finish of the NCR®treatment each day.

As these areas are released, we can feel the changes in the body energy patterns. And, I continue working until those energy patterns feel as if they have been evened out.

Then I'll have the patient stand up and start doing these very specialized testing techniques used for NeuroCranial Restructuring®. This testing is called pro-perceptive testing because it is a balance-oriented testing. This is not applied kinesiology.

As you can see, when I push and pull on different parts of the model's body, sometimes she sways and other times she doesn't. It is the mapping of those gentle swaying motions that lets us determine where the areas of instability are throughout her structure.

Then, in a moment, when she gets on the table, we will immobilize these unstable places by positioning her head with a pillow today. And, by having two helpers holding her legs and pelvis. And, then through the pro-perceptive testing, I've already determined where to place the balloon...whether to be in the right or the left nostril, and where in the nose because there's three passages inside each nostril to put the balloon.

So, we very specifically decide where to inflate this balloon to move the internal bones in the skull, the sphenoid, and as that bone changes, the head structure has been moved to a new stable pattern. And, then the rest of the system will continue to change so that the spine and pelvis change position as well.

Then, I will retest to make sure that every area of the body now feels stable when I push so that we don't see any of the swaying motions that we saw before. When we see none of the swaying motions, when we see the stability is there, we know treatment is complete for the day. And, then the patient can wait until the next therapy session.

Click Play to listen tol Dr. Howell talk about NCR®basics.

We are not interested in just giving you relief. When we perform NCR®on you, we want to gradually reverse the trend of deterioration.

We want to get rid of the effects of car accidents and falls and beatings and the adverse reactions to various other therapies, and we can do that a step at a time by using the NCR®therapy techniques.

So, conditions as diverse as headaches to sciatica and from sleep apnea to anxiety can all be treated with the same individualized and very particular kind of therapy.

This is not a shotgun-style therapy. We will not be able to treat everyone the same way. Each day, each person's treatment, is entirely customized. And because we work with you in that individual way, we can bring you back towards your structural and nervous system optimized function.

This is a wonderful opportunity for you. And for me, it makes work fun. I love coming to work because of the way we can help almost anybody that can come in the door. I go to the shopping mall and all I see are people that do not feel good. And with NCR®, you do feel good. And I think you should try it soon.

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Patrice Banks.

Patrice Banks: "I found about Dr. Howell through my naturopathic doctor that had worked with him and my doctor knew that I had had some, you know, trauma to the head, and also with my mercury poisoning that I have which can be very neurological and affect you very greatly physically and emotionally."

Patrice Banks: "And so she had recommended that I come to Dr. Howell. She felt that it would help me greatly in both of the problems that I had with my health. And, so I am on my second series, and after my first series that I did, I had pretty incredible results, especially with how I felt emotionally."

Patrice Banks: "I just have felt a lot happier, a lot more outgoing, ways that I used to feel before, you know, many years ago. I have been able to build more muscle mass, whereas I wasn’t able to before. It just seems like it’s enabled me and helped me be able to gain strength in working out with weights."

Patrice Banks: "And, it’s just been a great mood elevator, especially with how you know, head trauma and mercury affect how you feel emotionally. And so that’s been the greatest thing and it’s also helped with any, you know, headaches that I had."

Patrice Banks: "It just seemed like I have a better range of motion and in general, it’s just been a tremendous boost to all the other things that I’ve been doing. This is the one that’s really changed, I say changed my life, and it really has, more than anything that I’ve done. So you know, I can’t say enough good things about it.

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Katherine McMillin.

Dr. Dean Howell: "One is to work with your lifestyle. Two is to detoxify to get rid of the chemicals that have been stored up in your past. And, three you need to optimize structure so that your nervous system can work its best, because with your nervous system working properly, you get the proper signals to your immune system, your digestive system, as well as your muscles, in order to work your best."

Dr. Dean Howell: "So the chemical sensitivities, neurosthenias, Fibromyalgia, all of these kinds of people need to be doing the other biochemical work and working with detoxification and lifestyle, but they also need the structural work of NeuroCranial Restructuring®.

Katherine McMillin: "I want to say, first of all, that this has changed my life. This has changed my life already. This is my second series. I’m in the middle of my second series. And it’s changed my life. I have been looking since 1991 for something that would make a difference in my life."

Katherine McMillin: "And, I finally found Dr. Howell. I knew six years ago that I wanted to go to him when I first heard about him. And it wasn’t until, and I couldn’t work it out. First of all, he was always out of town. I was too ill to come here. I couldn’t afford it."

Katherine McMillin: "It finally worked out and it’s amazing. It’s a miracle. It’s the thing that I always hoped existed in the world, but I hadn’t quite found it."

Katherine McMillin: "In 1991, I was visiting with some friends on Mercer Island and we were sitting outside and all of a sudden, I became ill. I lost part of my eyesight, I couldn’t breathe, I lost part of my hearing just instantly.

Katherine McMillin: "I was just sitting there. It’s unseasonably warm, it’s April 1, 1991. She, my hostess, suggested we go outside. We’re sitting outside and I became ill."

Katherine McMillin: "She knew this doctor in Kent who’s a holistic/MD/alternative medicine doctor. She drove me there. She became ill on the way. They have this very sophisticated computer system down there."

Katherine McMillin: "They put me on the computer system. They hook you up with these electrodes, and they said, "You have been exposed to a carcinogen." They went further on into the computer system and they found that it was a substance called Zylene."

Katherine McMillin: "Well it took us. I almost died from it. She was very, very ill. One of her dogs is still ill to this day. She was told to never ever have children, like my girlfriend, because of the damage to her because of this chemical, which turned out to be Zylene.

Katherine McMillin: "And it was from the road crew. The DOT was spray-painting the retaining walls on that I90 project on the southernmost side. And, the north wind was coming and it blew it all up into our neighborhood. And a lot of us were poisoned. We weren’t the only ones."

Katherine McMillin: "Well, I almost died from that. I ended up weighing about 82 pounds and my hair broke off to about ½ inch, and it wacked out my immune system. I became, I was allergic to everything. I was allergic to my own body. I became autoimmune."

Katherine McMillin: "When I went to the doctor, he did a series of blood and urine chemistry and he found out I also had toxic amounts of lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. And, we think it’s because I was born and raised by the Tacoma smelter."

Katherine McMillin: "So it was, I had never felt well for a lot of years and I thought it was just because of stress and you know, life. And when I had the chemical poisoning, it was so much of an overload, my body couldn’t handle it."

Katherine McMillin: "So I have spent the last nine years trying, looking for something. I tried traditional allopathic medicine, which did nothing but make me worse and almost killed me. It set me back time and time again."

Katherine McMillin:  I went to acupuncturists. I have been to, I don’t even know how many chiropractors and osteopaths I’ve been to. And of course, everybody I went to thought they had the answer. They thought they were the one."

Katherine McMillin: "And, I tried everything. I delved even into the area of 'snake oils," not literally, but things that were non-traditional...very, very cutting edge and very progressive, very alternative, looking for something, looking for something, anything."

Katherine McMillin:  "And, I knew my structure was off because of the way I walked, because I had one shoulder lower than the other because my body is off and because I have constant pain in my body. And it became worse after having chemical poisoning."

Katherine McMillin: "Another thing, the most important thing to me, through all of the work with Dr. Howell, is that along with this, my body being ill, I was depressed. It’s what they call an endogenous depression where the whole organism becomes depressed, because the nervous system is so out of balance and/or nonfunctioning."

Katherine McMillin: "So, the depression, when I was younger, I never thought of myself as a really gorgeous person. But I always attracted people. People were always attracted to me...men, women and children and animals. I have always had that. And I haven’t had that since I’ve been sick."

Katherine McMillin: "I felt that I was, I always said to my friends, I felt invisible. And the first treatment I ever had with Dr. Howell, that instantly, miraculously went away. And I don’t have the words to say. I don’t know how to say it except that, 'I came out again.'"

Katherine McMillin: "And I felt that I, he unleashed something here, he unlatched something or he opened something, and life came pouring into me. And I would just feel alive. And I have no depression. And my pain is gone. And I sleep at night. And I am happy to be alive. All that I’ve been through, I am happy to be alive and I know there is an answer. "

Katherine McMillin: "I’ve been in a couple of automobile accidents. My bite is also off. I have had some really horrendous head injuries. And I didn’t think there was any hope."

Katherine McMillin: "All the cranial work I’ve had, the restructuring, didn’t work. But this is the first thing that’s made an immediate and miraculous, I don’t know what else to say. It’s just fabulous. I want, and he is so, he takes such a complete comprehensive view. I still have a ways to go. I’ve only had six treatments. But for a lifetime of damage, I think I’m doing pretty well."

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Marisa Clayton.

Marisa Clayton: "Well, fortunately I have had the opportunity to be Dean's niece. And I’ve had cranials my whole life. When he first started doing treatments, I would have like ten on one nose and six on the other sometimes and now he had like just one. So it’s really improved. And every time I see him he has a new technique and it makes it better so it’s really good."

Marisa Clayton: "I’ve had a lot of sinus problems when I was like really, really young. Like, kids in school would call me 'booger queen' and stuff like that, but Dean fixed all that."

Marisa Clayton: "I’ve gotten in two car accidents this past year and thank God for Uncle Dean or else I’d be in a lot of pain. And, I am able to move and I do yoga and I do dancing and I also do professional modeling.

Marisa Clayton: "And, as a model, like, features are really, really important and clients like me because my features are even, like the shape of my eyes and my cheekbones and my jaw line and I have a straight back and it helps on runway just walking because you’re—you’re more balanced."

Marisa Clayton: "But anyways, my whole family has had the NCR®treatment and my mom, she—she’s really fortunate to have a brother who is in charge of it. And, my sister and her boyfriend, and her boyfriend, who actually just got it done for the first time a few days ago, I could already tell his cheekbones are coming out and he’s in so much of a happier mood."

Marisa Clayton: "Like, yesterday after my treatment I just started laughing afterwards. I couldn’t stop but, I felt really dingy but it does change your personality after you change."

Marisa Clayton: "Like, sometimes I’ll be in a really, really bad mood because my back would be in so much pain and then after the treatment it’s like, 'Ahhhh,' you know, it’s like a deep breath and deep sigh and it’s like a total change in your personality and the way you feel."

Marisa Clayton: "One thing that I think was really, really cool... when my brother was born he had his umbilical cord wrapped around his throat and he couldn’t breathe. And, Uncle Dean was there and, just being born, he had little balloons and he used it on him and it saved his life."

Marisa Clayton: "So that was really wonderful and kind of sunk in. Also, another thing that I want to say is that I’ve learned a lot about like using pressure points on someone’s back and I see people who have to go through back surgery and I feel really, really sorry for them because it’s not necessary. And, I don’t—I recommend this for anyone whether you’re a football player or just a regular person who got in a serious car accident.

Marisa Clayton: "Anything! It totally helps. And I think it’s made me taller. The doctor said I would be 5’4" and I’m 5’10" so.

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Laurel Moorhouse.

Dr. Dean Howell: "You would not think that someone that is chronically tired would look for a treatment like NeuroCranial Restructuring®, but with some of her complaints, seizures, headaches, chronic neck pain and more, she was receiving no relief from taking nutritional supplements, drugs or getting other kinds of therapies.

Dr. Dean Howell: "We see this with many people with chronic fatigue. They just like the people that we discussed at other times with Fibromyalgia and other conditions, they all have numerous biochemical problems, but they also have structural problems that are preventing their nervous system from working as it should, and without an optimized functioning nervous system, without that going on, the rest of the biochemistry cannot work right either. For more on this, let us hear Laurel right now.

Laurel Moorhouse: "My name is Laurel and when I first saw Dr. Howell, I had chronic fatigue syndrome for 6 ½ years. I had been to other doctors in the natural health field, alternative medicine doctors, some MDs, and had tried a number of different ways to get myself back on my feet and just feel healthy again.

Laurel Moorhouse: "But, none of the treatments that I tried addressed nything to do with my neurologic symptoms, including foggy brain, lack of concentration, seizures, poor memory, some of those issues, that just nothing was addressing them."

Laurel Moorhouse: " I was feeling better somewhat physically but, still because of that, I wasn’t able to return to work and for 6 ½ years, I didn’t work. And, when I heard about Dr. Howell, he just seemed to really fill in a piece of that puzzle, especially when I heard him talk about what his treatment does and what your benefits can be from that."

Laurel Moorhouse: "And so after just a few treatments with him, I was able to go back to work, which just surprised me. After just a couple of treatments, my brain function cleared up. I did not have that foggy brain problem any more."

Laurel Moorhouse: "A few more treatments, and I had no more seizures. A lot of these symptoms are not talked about in regards to chronic fatigue in a lot of the literature, and I just had not had help anywhere else. And, he just, if it had not been for his treatment, I just do not know where I would be today because I would not be able to work because of these other neurologic symptoms going on. And I am just really grateful to him for that.

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Karen Jensen.

Dr. Dean Howell: "NeuroCranial Restructuring® often improves vision because of the way the head bones move. You know, there are bones that make up your eye socket...the orbits of the eyes, they're called. And as NeuroCranial Restructuring® optimizes your head shape – as it optimizes, the symmetry and the positioning of these bones improve so that the eyes work more and more together, sharpening images and improving depth perception. So here's Karen."

Karen Jensen: "I grew up with Dr. Howell in Everett and we went from grade school all the way up through high school together and then my girlfriend that lives in the same building that I do was seeing Dr. Howell in Everett and she convinced me to come, you know, and see Dr. Howell and since I already knew him, it was quite a surprise that I had gone to school with him."

Karen Jensen: "And he had made a tremendous difference in her life and I've only had one series with Dr. Howell but, after the very first treatment, my balance was remarkably improved. And, the second treatments he was able to open up my nasal passages."

Karen Jensen: "I was raised with twin brothers two years younger than myself and they were real rambunctious and they broke my nose at least five or six times while we were growing up. So my nasal passage is completely blocked, like 90 percent, and Dr. Howell was able to get movement and it's 100 percent open now. It's really nice to be able to get oxygen through your nose and not have to be a mouth breather anymore."

Karen Jensen: "And, two weeks after the treatment I was riding a bus and I heard this really loud cracking sound. And all of a sudden everything just brightened up but like the room got real bright. Colors were more vibrant and the man that was sitting next to me asked me if, you know, 'What's that loud cracking noises." And, I said well you're not going to believe it but it was the bones in my head. And, of course, he did think I was a nut but that doesn't matter to me because it really, it was just fabulous."

Karen Jensen: "I mean this, because, I'm an artist and to be able to see things brighter and more vibrant. So the nerve, the optical nerve, must have been pinched or something for that reaction to happen."

Karen Jensen: "And about three weeks afterwards, I was sitting in church and I heard another really loud pop and the small of my back pushed right into the pew and I've had a, what do you call that, swayback for quite a few years since a real bad accident I was in in 1979. And, I haven't been able to put my back down flat into the pew, in, you know, in 20 years."

Karen Jensen: "So it was just...it was amazing because I didn't move. I didn't adjust my pelvis. It just went into the pew. And, so my balance is better. I'm able to get around. I don't have bruises from head to toe anymore."

Karen Jensen: "And I'm hoping that I can continue to have more series with Dr. Howell because I would to get more, you know, results. But, the most remarkable one was the improvement in my vision. It was just incredible!"

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from June Roton.

Dr. Dean Howell: "This is a testimonial of June Roton. June came to see me originally for anxiety coupled with obsessive compulsive disorder. People with these sorts of complaints often use medications to try to keep their brains feeling more normal and functional, but, as soon as they stop the medications they do not feel as good again."

Dr. Dean Howell: "And, more than that, taking these medications often times makes them feel more stable, but not feel good. All of these psychiatric medications are designed to change the chemicals in the brain, the neurotransmitters and to modify those levels throughout the nervous systems."

Dr. Dean Howell: "What you can do with NeuroCranial Restructuring® is to move the head plate so that the flow of blood and cerebro-spinal fluid inside the skull gradually optimizes. And, as that occurs, nervous system functions begin to normalize as well.

June Rhoton: "My name is June Roton and I have been seeing Dr. Howell since 1997. And, I saw him initially for two reasons, my upper back problems...pain in my upper back just from standing a long time or sitting because of my posture and also because of obsessive compulsive disorder.

June Rhoton: "And, he has helped me in both of those areas tremendously. The posture, I suppose can best be seen by before and after pictures, but as far as the obsessive compulsive disorder, I can tell you many examples of ways that I have less fear than I had before in doing everyday things."

June Rhoton: "I would say that my particular case, I would probably say is an extreme case of obsessive compulsive disorder, including bad numbers and good numbers as a psychiatrist asked me one time, 'Do you have good numbers and bad numbers?' And I said, Yes!

June Rhoton: "And, I am doing much, much better. I do not have to redo walking on course or walking over course, I should say or, and I much better with numbers. I would avoid for example, in a grocery store, if I was up at the checkout counter and I realized that I had six items in my basket, I would go back and probably get one more item so that seven is a good number."

June Rhoton: "It is a dysfunction of the brain. It happens to be on the right side of the brain. And, it just so happens that the more compressed side of my skull has been the right side."

June Rhoton: "So as far as I am concerned, it's made a lot of sense because I have seen the PET scan in a book called Brain Lock that explains about OCD. And, the problem in the brain is on the right hand side."

June Rhoton: "So, I do not know if that is true of everyone who has OCD that they have more compression on the right side of their skull or not, but that happens to be my case. And, I feel much more optimistic about my future. I am happier. I have more energy than I did before. And, I guess my dilemma now is I am not sure exactly what I want to or should be doing with my life, with the remainder of my life at this point."

June Rhoton: "Another example of the way his treatments have helped me is that, I have no problem sitting on the left-hand side of the bus now. I used to think that somehow the right side was better, was safer, a safer choice. So I would always sit on the right-hand side of the bus."

June Rhoton: "And, the smallest decision, like where to sit on the bus when there are many empty seats poses problems for people with OCD because, they look for the safest, best decision here even though it is not a significant decision."

June Rhoton: "It is very difficult to work on doing things that you are afraid to do all by yourself. And, his treatments have made it much easier for me to challenge myself to do the things that I have had fear doing. And, that is probably the most significant way that Dr. Howell has helped me."

June Rhoton: "Although, my posture is immensely better. I don't have the pains in my back that I had before. Even walking a long distance, and running a long distance, I would have pain in my upper back, just from holding my body up. And, as I said sitting for a long period of time working at a desk, I would be in pain if I did that for a long period of time. And, my back is very, very much better."

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Iris Moore.

Iris Moore: "I've been waiting for four years to see Dr. Howell for several body conditions because, when I was a child, I had a very bad bicycle accident that broke my nose and damaged my teeth,  rearranged my body so that my right side went down three inches, until I got some Rolfing when I was about 41."

Iris Moore: "And, though I've also been deaf in my left ear since,  age seven. I've only had two treatments. This will be the third day and I haven't had my treatment yet. But just, the first day I was really shocked. I never, never dreamed in all my wildest dreams that if a person broke their nose you could unbreak it."

Iris Moore: "And on the first treatment I was very fortunate in that the balloon went up the left nostril. It cracked. There was a crack. And, it was very quick...even though it was not so pleasant. Very quick! Very tolerable! And, after that I could breathe for the first time in 53 years. I could breathe. I was just elated, overjoyed."

Iris Moore: "Later on, I experienced what's called the retracing from the cell memory. 'Some people have this and some people don't,' Dr. Howe said."

Iris Moore: "And, so I did experience some of the same things in my body that I did at the time of the injury. And, I also had a, auto crash just three years ago where my forehead further got hit and the brain got influenced...memory, all the kinds of stuff."

Iris Moore: "So I was not, in pretty bad shape. He, and when he explored my, cranial bone, it was quite locked up...everything locked up."

Iris Moore: "I was diagnosed scoliosis which I didn't know. I had scoliosis of the spine a little bit. I knew I was having difficulty with a chronic right pelvis that wouldn't stay in. And, I've been going to chiropractors since age 17. And, put them in, they put them in, they go back out. Put them in, they go back out."

Iris Moore: "And so four years ago, I heard about Dr. Howell, where I was told that this cranial bones could be, you know, reloosened, and they restructure themselves and it would be permanent. So, yesterday on the second session, it was up the other nostril that it was also apparently related to the right pelvis. And, it took quite a bit but, we got it.

Iris Moore: "And so now, I have two nostrils that I can breathe out of. Quite exciting. I mean, it's so overwhelming. I have no words."

Iris Moore: "And, because I also had injured my mouth, I experienced quite a bit of sensation across here. And, the first treatment opened the left jaw. And, the second day treatment, this right one, between that day and this day, I felt very imbalanced...difficult talking.

Iris Moore: "It felt like the body is shifting and finding its own balance. So it's been very, very exciting. I can feel every, every bit of what's shifting in my body."

Iris Moore: "My eyes had quite a bit of difficulty...detached retinas. I have not been able to read lately from my right eye. And, diagnosed cataracts. And I just know that if you tune in next time there'll be something going on there. Because, as I walked in the mall today, I sensed my eyes changing. It went from strain to being able to see a little better and shifting back and once the cranial bones loosen, obviously, there's just this constant shifting of the body finding its comfortable place to be."

Iris Moore: "And, I just feel so fortunate. I really do feel that my hearing will come back. My right, hip is already tracking differently. And my spine feels different. I have a rib was damaged in the auto crash three years ago."

Iris Moore: "They worked on that. And I just want to say, that not only does Dr. Howell do miracles, but two assistants that work with him here in Bellevue are just miracle workers themselves. And,  based on how Dr. Howell reads the body, he's very quick and very adept. And, they take the reading and then what they do on the bodies, wherever they do it, is so totally different."

Iris Moore: "And, I've had a lot of body work including Rolfing. And, they are just obviously loosening the places that are next to be loosened, based on Dr. Howe's assessment after the body has changed from each treatment. I think that is just phenomenal."

Iris Moore: "I've never had that kind of careful work done on me before. So I have new hope! And, my face has changed considerably."

Iris Moore: "If you get the beginning picture of me, it will be quite different. From this, my nose flattened out the first, with the first treatment. Second treatment even more so but, then the jaw, the whole face came down, a bit. And it loosens the neck so that I don't look quite so 'double chinny' or, you know, stressed here."

Iris Moore: " And, it's just, completely different. My neck seems shorter because the face is come down where it belongs. So it's just totally amazing to me...what has happened.

Iris Moore: "That in, after 53 years, I can breathe. And, of the  things that have gone on in my body, because I couldn't breathe, are just amazing. And, if you don't get enough oxygen nothing really works right."

Iris Moore: "So I just feel like I have a new lease on life. And I would like to say to anyone watching this video, if you have a child who ever broke their nose, if you can see Dr. Howell sooner than later, you may not have to have a lifetime of other body problems. And, if you have a broken nose now, no matter how old you are, it's not too late. You can, you can get all this loosened up and you can breathe again. Thank you.

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Hillary Lampers.

Hilary Lampers: "My name is Hilary Lampers, and I am Dr. Dean Howell's assistant. I've been working with him now for three years. I've known him for almost four. Before I worked here, I was a patient, and then there's a story that goes along with why I work here. And it's mainly because pretty much my life was changed by coming here."

Hilary Lampers: "Most of my life, I had severe head pressure. When I was born, they used forceps on me, and I had had a series of car accidents and so on and so forth over the years. My head pretty much hurt when I woke up, and it hurt when I went to bed. And I wouldn't really call it headache. I would just say that I had a lot of pressure, like someone was squeezing my head all the time. I had a vice grip on my head."

Hilary Lampers: "And for being so young and having this pain for pretty much most of my life, it gradually was getting worse and worse and worse. I was pretty hopeless. I finally decided to do the NCR®, and I did the NCR®in March of 1997 was my first session. And it was the first night in my life that I can remember where I went to bed with no head pressure. And I woke up with no head pressure. And so that four-day session just really changed my whole view of how body work is done and what health actually is because as far as I was concerned, there was not going to be anything that was going to take my head pressure away."

Hilary Lampers: "My head pressure went away for about two months, and then I started gradually getting it back, and I knew that I needed to come back. So I came back and I got another session, and in the eight-month period of time, I had three, maybe four sessions. And it took about that long and my head pressure was totally gone. I haven't had the same head pressure since August of 1997, so that March, May, June, July, August – that's actually six months.

Hilary Lampers: "My headache, head pressure was gone. It's not only changed my life, it's changed my whole family's life because my mother's come, my brother's come, my stepfather, most of my friends and my husband, and some other family members."

Hilary Lampers: "It's just opened up this whole wealth, you know, of communication between people, and it's exciting. And I feel really fortunate to have been a part of that. So the technique that I do which was taught to me by Dr. Howell, and it was the technique that he started using on me before I would let him do NCR®on my head, but he trained me in it, and over the years I've been working with it."

Hilary Lampers: "He modifies it and you modify it, as well as the treatments, you know. It's always changing, it's always getting better. Now, I am in the process of finishing my Bachelor's Degree and going into medical school so that I can do what Dr. Howell does."

Hilary Lampers: "I want to be a doctor and do NCR®for my future, so pretty much, you know, my life is on a totally different track."

Hilary Lampers: "I don't have headaches anymore. Not only did it make my headaches go away, but my face is totally different. If you could see pictures of me from three years ago, I look totally different."

Hilary Lampers: "I feel like I look younger. I feel younger than I did three years ago. I would say to anybody who is even thinking about it that there is no other structural physical medicine as powerful as this."

Hilary Lampers: "And, you don't even know what your brain can do and how good you can feel until you do this."

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Ginny Stafford.

Dr. Howell: "Scoliosis is when the spine is twisted. It's actually in a spiral shape. Most people will believe that their backs are S-shaped because when a flat X-ray is taken, a spiral looks rather like an S and when it's severe enough, the scoliosis starts compressing the heart and lungs and surgeons prefer to cut open the person and insert rods up the length of their spine to straighten them out to prevent the compression of their heart and lungs."

Dr. Howell: "So, Jennie's scoliosis was that severe. Then she came to me and for her, I think her life is really different.

Ginny Stafford: "My name is Jennie Stafford. And I found out about Dr. Howell through the materials of Sam Biser that he sells. I was reading one day in there, in the manual, and there was a small chapter and I read the material and it was about Dr. Howell.

Dr. Howell: "And, I called immediately and I'm so glad I did because, I have a severe 90 degree scoliosis and I was in pain from my knees to my waist and all of the pain is gone!"

Dr. Howell: "When I first went to his office I couldn't hardly walk up the steps and now I have no problems walking up the steps. I can breathe. And I...anyone that has scoliosis needs to come here and have this done. It's just wonderful. Your whole life will change. He saved my life."

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Dr. Hauser.

Dr. Howell: "Dr. Hauser has written two books on prolotherapy. One’s entitled Prolo Your Pain Away and the second Prolo Your Sports Injury Away. He found that the blend of prolotherapy joined to NeuroCranial Restructuring® was much more powerful than the prolotherapy alone. He has more to tell you right now."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "Hi. My name’s Ross Hauser. I’m a medical doctor and practitioner of NCR®. I was fortunate to get trained in NCR®by Dr. Howell."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "I’m the medical director of Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services, a natural medicine clinic in Oak Park, Illinois. I am also the author of several books on natural medicine, including the well-known book, Prolo Your Pain Away: Curing Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "'Doctor, why did you get involved in NeuroCranial Restructuring®?' Well, first of all, I myself suffer from some medical conditions such as an inability to smell, some pain on the right side of my body, such as TMJ syndrome, as well as having some concentration difficulty."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "Well, lo and behold, after just four NCR®treatments by Dr. Howell, I could smell for the first time in years. My TMJ vastly improved and my concentration and attention was phenomenal. And, these are similar results that I’ve seen in my patients, being a practitioner of NCR®."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "If a person suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder, concentration difficulties, autism, Downs Syndrome, balance difficulties, tinnitus or ringing in the ears, vertigo, allergies, chronic sinusitis, chronic neck pain, back pain, scoliosis, headaches, torticollis, tremor, chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia..these are the kinds of conditions that respond very well to NCR®."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "Doctor, how will a physician know if I am an appropriate NCR®candidate?' Beside having a certain symptomology or having various medical conditions that are known to respond to NCR®, often a doctor or clinician trained in NCR®can look at a person’s face and know that they’re going to be an appropriate candidate for NCR®."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "What a physician or clinician is looking for is various asymmetries in the face. For instance, a person’s nose may be crooked or the cheekbones may be more full on one side or the other. These give an indication that a person will respond very well to NCR®."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "'Doctor, how can NCR®help such condition as mental fatigue, concentration, attention disorders, memory problems and such psychiatric conditions as anxiety and depression?' Well, all these conditions are helped when one improves the body’s hormone production as well as increasing the hormone production in the brain."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "By manipulating the sphenoid bone and affecting the pituitary gland function, as well as the various areas of the brain in regard to neurotransmitter formation and circulation, NCR®causes dramatic improvements in these conditions."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "Memory often improves. Attention, concentration, mental fog, anxiety and depression, and this is without medications or even herbal remedies."

Dr. Ross Hauser: "'What do I like most about NCR®?' Well, NCR®is very safe. There has been over a million NCR®treatments done without any long-term bad side effects. It’s an extremely safe procedure. "

Dr. Ross Hauser: "Second, it can be utilized in the context of comprehensive natural medicine. If a person’s using a particular dietary regime, herbal regime or other interventional techniques, such as neurotherapy and prolotherapy, NCR®can be a great adjunct to that treatment protocol.

Dr. Ross Hauser: "Thirdly, NCR®is very effective. So by utilizing NCR®in a person’s particular natural medical regime, they can improve their health very quickly."

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Cindy Lovejoy.

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "Hello, my name is Dr. Cindy Lovejoy. I am a marriage, family, child therapist. And, I’ve been seeing Dean Howell for about 14 months. And, we’ve gotten lots of good results. I wanted to tell you about it."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "I have had scoliosis in my back since early childhood. It’s very curved, very rotating and caused me lots of pain, nerve damage, Fibromyalgia and I’ve been in a lot of pain for about 25 years."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "I’ve been to many chiropractors. I’ve done all the holistic health things that can be done and I’ve gotten very little benefit."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "So a friend of mine told me about Dr. Howell about over a year ago and I said, "No listen, I’ve been to too many people. I’ve had too much work and nothing has helped, I’m not going to do it."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "And so, my friend drives me to see Dr. Howell in San Diego. I was very, leery, didn’t expect a whole lot of results and within the first round of treatment, I began to feel that this is going to make a difference, I could feel my spine shift some. Some of the pressure got off of it."

I didn’t have as much pain and I could just tell this was making a difference. So, because this is the first thing I’ve really had success with, I’ve gone wholehearted into getting treatment. In a year and a half, I’ve had over 25 rounds of treatment and am continuing to make good progress."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "I’m out of pain most of the time now. My Fibromyalgia has improved. I’m walking a lot that I couldn’t do before."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "I’m looking younger. I’m 58 years old, but people tell me I look 40. So, I like that a lot. And the good news for me is that each treatment, I get better."

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "And, just knowing that this is here and I can keep doing it has been what’s really given me hope. Not only hope, I’m getting results. 

Dr. Cindy Lovejoy: "I really encourage everyone that has any sort of spinal condition to look into this treatment because it does make a difference. I have a Ph.D. in psychology and am quite educated in different health issues and this is the first one that has made a significant difference."

Click Play to listen to a personal testimonial about NCR®from Amber Dusk.

Amber Dusk: "I'm Amber Dusk, and I used to go to chiropractors. I went to chiropractors for about 20 years. My neck was always bothering me and my mid-back, and my lower back. It wasn't horrible, but I was always a little bit uncomfortable. And, I was always rubbing my neck."

Amber Dusk: "And, after 20 years of chiropractic and not really getting anywhere, I heard about Dr. Howell. And, after my first series, I actually started experiencing no neck pain."

Amber Dusk: "And, after my second series, I basically feel, felt very balanced. I'm doing my ninth series now because I want to be as balanced as I can!"

Amber Dusk: "And, I realized a few weeks ago that I actually float when I walk now. I used to feel like I trudged along and I used to feel the gravity, and I used to try and stand up straight. And I was always trying, and I couldn't sit straight because unless I had lower back support, my back would ache."

Amber Dusk: "I can now sit on a stool, which I don't remember having done for many years. In general, my quality of comfort has  improved tremendously."

Amber Dusk: "I didn't have a dramatic problem. I didn't come for a dramatic problem, so a lot of these benefits that I got were unexpected."

Amber Dusk: "It's hard for me to imagine not having Dr. Howell in the world to come back to whenever I might have any future problems. I know people who have been in car accidents, and the thought possibly getting in one and then not have Dr. Howell to come to makes me really appreciate his being here."

Amber Dusk: "And, it makes me feel great to know that there's someone there that can, that can help with so many things. I've talked to so many people that have had so many issues that were resolved."

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Ralph Zuranski * 3639 Midway Dr. Ste. B299
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Ralph Zuranski is a firm believer in the benefits of NeuroCranial Restructuring®. He has personally experienced  pain relief and achieved a more balanced facial symmetry. NCR®helped fix his very crooked nose. He appears to have a more youthful appearance without plastic surgery. His performance in sports is better. The symptoms of pain and mental problems created by his many head injuries, like concussions, whiplashes and facial compressions are greatly diminished. His snoring is less. He sleeps better and the headaches and migraines are gone. His  TMJ problems are much better. His posture has straightened. Ralph's increase brain power and memory is amazing. It is hard to believe this was all caused by gently moving the sphenoid bone in his skull, right below his sinuses. Ralph believes NCR®is one of the best therapies ever discovered in 40 years of health research.