If you've been searching for answers, you've heard all of these, either from someone selling you something, or the latest TikTok. Every single one is wrong.
None of these touch where the asymmetry actually lives.
Down to the position of your cranial bones
Your skull is made of 22 bones which move via the sutures through the craniosacral rhythm, shaped by pressure and posture for your entire life. That's why the face can seem to 'collapse' with age.
The sutures of the lateral skull
Between every bone in your skull there's a living joint called a suture. Not fused. Mobile your entire life, shaped by pressure, posture, and force. And with the right traction in the right direction, they can be guided back into a more symmetrical position.
Eyes sit at different heights? Thats the sphenoid bone shifting up on one side. One eye bigger? Thats the sphenoid rotating. Smile tilted? Thats the maxilla shifting, and your nose follows, and your ears end up at different heights, and suddenly your entire face looks collapsed and crooked! This, is called a cranial strain. Let's look at the two most common ones.
i.
Side-Bending Rotation
In the bone
The sphenoid and the occiput curve in the same direction, collapsing the face on one side like a banana. The low sphenoid pulls the eye orbit down, and the high maxilla pulls the smile up. One cheek flattens. One jaw juts.
ii.
Torsion
In the bone
The sphenoid and occiput rotate in different directions, dragging the smile, cheek, nose, and jaw with them.
Once bone locks into a strain, everything above it follows.
Muscles tighten unevenly. Fascia pulls. The face follows the skull.
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