If you've been scoping chiropractors on social media you may have encountered one of the numerous endonasal balloon techniques performed by some chiropractors and osteopaths.

For those unfamiliar, I explain it as being similar to a chiropractic adjustment, but for the skull.

The skull, of course, unlike the spine, is not articulated, which means that it does not have joints. Instead, the bones of the skull come together at sutures - much like the tectonic plates of Earth come together at fault lines. And just as the fault line of Earth can be under stress, shear, or tension, the sutures of our skull can exhibit similar stresses.

Throughout our life it is inevitable that we will encounter stresses or impacts to our skull. That can be hitting your head on a cupboard, being in the path of a baseball, falling off of a bicycle, etc... These effects are cumulative and rarely countered - except maybe for a suppressed sneeze, how often are forces going "the other way"?

Endonasal Therapies can be called different names depending on the analysis and differing schools of training. The most common names are:

Endonasal Correction Technique

Bilateral Nasal Specific

Concussion Conquered

Nasal Release Technique

Endonasal Balloon Correction

Neurocranial Restructuring

Other variations of these terms may be used.