I am astounded by the way NCR has positively transformed my life physically, mentally and emotionally! After receiving treatment, my spine (crooked since birth and swayback) straightened, feels supple, and my chronic neck and back pain have disappeared. For the first time my weight feels evenly distributed on both legs. There’s lightness and a spring in my step.

My chronically stuffy nose has permanently cleared. I need less sleep, have more energy and my face is becoming increasingly symmetrical, well rounded and beautiful.

As treatment progresses, I notice that I’m thinking more clearly and calmly. Emotionally I’m also feeling calmer and more secure. My joy and happiness increase with each treatment as my negativity and other baggage from the past melt away. My relationships with others are improving, as I become more easygoing and tolerant. I feel more like my best self all the time, that is, more like the person I most deeply am and was intended to be.

Four months ago I received severe whiplash in an automobile accident which plunged me into extreme pain. NCR was the only thing that relieved my pain and enabled me to function. Others told me that it would take at least 12 to 18 months for my injury to heal. However, now, after several series of NCR treatments, I feel completely back to normal. My spine and neck are again loose and pain free.

Thank you so much, Dr. Howell! I think that NCR is the greatest gift to humanity in this century. Surely it is the means by which we can realize our full potentials, both individually and collectively. I’m convinced that the world would be amazingly transformed for the better if everyone received NCR.

Trisha Howell

Where do I begin?
My condition began at age 17 with a pain in my hip. In one day, I went from the fastest person on my tennis team to the slowest. I deteriorated over the next 5 years. I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS).

I went to a neurologist, a rheumatologist, an orthopedist, a chiropractor and a physical therapist for help. All of the doctors and therapists whom I saw clearly wanted to help. However, the diagnosis (with the exception of the chiropractor) was always similar: take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and perform a regimen of stretching contained in a back pamphlet.

The chiropractor was very helpful in increasing my awareness of AS. The MDs correctly diagnosed my condition but did not reveal much information about AS. For instance, it wasn't until six years into the condition that I learned about the process of uncontrolled spinal fusion that characterizes AS.

The chiropractor clearly defined the state of my condition as well as the "what ifs" scenarios for the future. I got manipulations from him three times a week. The manipulations did not help my back but did temporarily increase the mobility in my neck. However, I also felt friction between the vertebrae in my neck. That scared me. I discontinued the treatments.2

I then learned of the Spondylitis Association (SA) and attended a meeting at the National Center for Health. Through SA, my awareness rapidly increased as I met other people with my condition for the first time. I was relieved to meet others with AS and to see that many of them were living happy lives in spite of the physical limitations. But it scared me.

I met a terrific gentleman who was on his fourth hip replacement and was nearly completely fused. When I realized that that was my possible future, I did not like it.

The Spondylitis Association provided a wealth of helpful information. At about the same time, I saw the father of my dearest childhood friend, Charlie Enochs. Jim Enochs took a personal interest in my condition. I consider this one of the most fortunate occurrences in my life. He sent me two nutritional guides, and he recommended various supplements including shark cartilage and fish oil. These are crucial for me. He helped me think about my condition and achieve a better level of acceptance of it. More importantly, he gave me the resolve to keep aggressively fighting the condition.

As my AS management skills improved, I gradually improved my muscular strength close to my former state. However, even with the improvement, I was "locked"' into a slumped position. The pain was perpetual. My neck mobility was virtually gone. With no medical breakthrough on the horizon, I was tempted to accept this lesser physical version of myself.

Although I was not at my lowest physical state, there were additional degenerative signs emerging, including a new pressure pain in the front of my left hip, a constant clicking and popping of my elbows and diminished ankle circulation and mobility. The greatest daily problem was intense tension and corresponding pain in the back of my neck as the muscles strained to hold my head up.

I was experiencing this mental and physical state when Mr. Enochs called and described a treatment that he had undergone in Seattle. He urged me to schedule a visit as soon as could be arranged. He also told me that if it didn't work out for me, he would pay for it, which impressed me greatly.

It took me six months before going to Dr. Howell for NCR. The day before flying to Dr. Howell's clinic, I told Mr. Enochs that a 10% improvement would greatly enhance my life and leave me very satisfied that I attended.

I underwent a sequence with Dr. Howell. A session is a series of half-hour treatments given once a day for four consecutive days. His technique is called NeuroCranial Restructuring (NCR). It really worked for me. Look at my photos!
I got:

A 60% INCREASE IN ERECT POSTURE!
An 85% reduction in pain.

A 50% increase in nasal breathing capacity.

A 85% reduction in muscular tension in the back of my neck.

Between 50% - 75%(at the very least) reduction in spinal scoliosis (i.e.. I now have a fairly straight spine.)

A 50% increase in chest expansion while breathing.

More than 50% increase in neck mobility.

An 85% decrease in the clicking and popping in my elbows.

My shoulders are at least 70% closer to their correct position.

My pelvis is 70% closer to being on line.

My face is a least 30% fuller than it was a year ago!

My eyes and ears are more aligned.

My nose (which was twice hit over the years) has now returned to 75% of its original shape!

SOME OF THE ANCILLARY BENEFITS OF THIS:

I fill out my clothes better because of my improved posture.

My pants wear better because of my improved pelvis (i.e. my posterior is fuller).

I stand at least an inch taller.

My face, not contorted with pain and tension, appears much more relaxed.

I walk on the insides of my feet again and my balance is dramatically improved.

I am mechanically stronger.

My presence in any room I enter is dramatically different.

And on and on and on and on and on.

I sincerely hope that this description of my experience will help quantify the potential impact that NCR could have on any degenerative arthritic condition. What is even better is that much of my progress was immediate.

I am only a phone call away from anyone who wishes to ask about my personal experience and results. I can be reached at (404) 812-7099 (phone) or Jcuddihyii @aol.com (email).

Good luck and best regards for all people looking for guidance and tools to combat any ailment that they are fighting. I am indescribably fortunate to have finally located the guidance and tools for treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis. It came in the form of Dr. Dean Howell and NeuroCranial Restructuring!

Dear Doctor Howell:
Thank you for giving our son back to us! Tucker, our three-year-old, has struggled with interpreting and following through with instructions in the most menial and mundane tasks until his first visit with your gifted techniques of NCR.

After 12 months of trial and repeated frustration, Tucker has finally obtained the opportunity to follow through in toilet training HIMSELF and stay dry, even through the night, without accident or incident.

Where MY son had NO patience for little things like picking up a crayon or marker and drawing or coloring, he now excitedly shows us his pictures exclaiming, "I made this! Isn't it beautiful, Mommy? I made this!"

Every time I think about how his teeth had impeded his ability to speak correctly and caused chewing difficulties, which is now correcting, with the accumulation of repeated NCR treatments, without orthodontics, I give a sigh of relief.

He did NOT have to endure the costly and bothersome surgery for drainage tubes in his ears to relieve a constant barrage of ear infections. The cranial adjustments corrected and relieved his ear pain. It must have been caused by maladjusted bone structure. I CRY tears of joy.

I have to pull myself back from approaching strangers I encounter who have problems in facial structure like I had. I was cured of it, though I was not fully aware the problem until I saw it changing in the sequences of my own before-and-after pictures. I knew that something wasn’t even as I would look in the mirror to apply my makeup. I was used to seeing someone that was crooked!

It just feels so much better to go through life being able to stand straight and tall and not have to make a conscious effort to check my posture.

You removed the effects from a head injury that seven specialized medical doctors told me they could do nothing about. It was just something I had to live with. They could find "nothing wrong." NCR allowed me to sleep effortlessly. No more waking to severe inner head pain and throbbing several times a night!

I spent twenty-one years of (sometimes three times a week) chiropractic visits for months on end, spending literally thousands of dollars of my own and so much insurance money, all with the unfulfilled hope of a pain-free lifestyle. I have found that not only does NCR work better, it is also much more cost effective.

I received complete relief from my pain in only one series of treatments. My posture is corrected, my thoughts are 200-300% clearer, making decision-making a smooth and painless process. There is NO "I should have." Instead I experience more, "I'm so happy I decided to do that" which elevates my self-esteem and reassures me that my life is worth living. I am now blessed to be alive, being the one living there, eliminating the severe depression I lived in for years on end prior to receiving your treatments.

In ending, thank you for taking such terrific caring care of my family. Your specialty in medicine puts a new twist on the phrase, "I love balloons" in our household.

Susan Casey (mother of Tucker)--Marysville, WA

As all parents of Down’s Syndrome (DS) children know, at birth our babies do not look dramatically different from "well" newborns. But as the months and years go by, they develop very slowly and begin to resemble each other more than their parents. Speech, gross and fine motor skills tend to be especially slow to develop.

My DS daughter April, now eight years old, was clearly headed down that road, despite my doing many therapies, programs and natural healing modalities with her. High functioning relative to other DS children, she still had the facial characteristics, droopy posture and slurred speech typical of our kids.

For the past year and a half, however, things have shifted on every level in April as she is blessed to receive NCR treatments from Dr. Dean Howell every three months. April's posture has straightened to near perfect and as a result she excels in her gymnastics practice and skis downhill solo with control from the top of the mountain!

Oh, there have been and continue to be so many desirable changes, both dramatic and subtly cumulative, I don't know where to begin. April's speech is now extraordinarily clear, her thought processes complex. Her natural sense of whimsy can now shine. At last we get to hear her ideas and feelings as she can truly carry on complete conversations.

Her lower jaw no longer projects excessively forward. You might not even recognize her as a Down’s Syndrome person. She no longer has the flat face characteristic of DS people. As the bridge of her nose has come out and we see cheekbones emerge, her eyes have rounded and relaxed into a more natural place. Her lower jaw no longer projects excessively forward. You might not even recognize her as a Down’s Syndrome person.
NCR will definitely continue to be part of April's life adventure for years to come.

Thank you, Dr. Dean Howell (and Hillary), for helping to awaken my daughter to her true self.

Anna, mother of April Bond--Athens, VT

For several years, I lived with continual pain. Muscles throughout my back, shoulders, neck and head were in continuous spasm. My eyes hurt from unrelenting pressure and my vision was gradually deteriorating.

Sleeping was extremely difficult, because I couldn't find a comfortable position. If I slept on my back, the back of my head would go numb and then hurt like crazy. And the small of my back would aggravate me all day. But if I slept on my side, my shoulder and neck would hurt all day! I would suffer torticollis (wry neck) if by chance a breeze touched the left side of my neck, so I wore scarves and dickies even through the muggy Florida summer!

Because of the pain and exhaustion due to the pain, I slept a lot. My brain was often on "half function." I was groggy much of the time. Although I had been a brilliant academic achiever in my youth, I had turned into someone who was confused, absent minded, and ungrounded. I couldn’t work, nor could I create music and art as I’d done years earlier. I was barely functioning.

There were many reasons for this pain, but perhaps the biggest one was that during the 60’s and early 70's, I played violin professionally and didn't hold the instrument properly, hunching up my left shoulder and craning my neck to the left and down. After awhile, this contraction of muscles became permanent, throwing my structure out of balance.

In 1977, I fell backwards onto a terrazzo floor, "cracking" my skull. For months afterward, I had dizziness, and yep, more imbalance. Then in 1986, I had surgery to correct a massive jaw overbite problem and everything got worse, if that was possible. Within a year of the surgery, my little remaining physical comfort became a thing of the past.

My attempts to heal this pain could not include doctors and pain clinics. I simply didn't have the money. I located good Chiropractors, but they gave me only temporary relief. Unfortunately, I was one of those people who could never hold an adjustment. As soon as I'd look up or to the side, "crunch," and I was out of alignment again. My husband, Francois, had to learn how to give me neck adjustments because I needed them several times a day in order to function.

I tried massage therapy too, and it would help temporarily. But then my body would just return to its normal pain and tension within two days, if not sooner. Nutrition helped some, especially the Mineral Toddy, which alleviated my achy joints. Neuromuscular and Rolfing work (with the "finger up the nose" experience) helped a little, and so did some Upledger work. They could shift my cranial plates some, but not expand them outward to relieve the pressure. My muscle pain remained.

Besides researching every alternative health literature source I could find, I knew that there must be a metaphysical reason for all of this suffering. So, I threw myself into years of intensive internal, personal change. My life shifted in glorious, even magical ways, but the pain didn't go away. I prayed for healing every day, and asked for something that could help my compressed cranial bones to relax and expand outward. Laughingly, I would tell everyone that all my problems were "in my head."

Then I received a copy of Sam Biser's "Last Chance Newsletter." In it, he interviewed Dr. Dean Howell, of Everett, Washington. Dr. Howell shared the amazing results he’d had by doing a therapy currently called NeuroCranial Restructuring, or NCR. This therapy involved moving the cranial plates OUTWARD, expanding the head. He mentioned symptoms that were alleviated by this treatment. TA! DA! They matched mine to a tee! I knew the answer to my prayers had come!

Immediately, I called only to find out that Dr. Howell saw patients only on the West Coast, and so it seemed that, due to the expense, I would have to wait a very long time. But then, Howell's secretary called me to tell me that he was planning a tour, and if I put together enough patients for him, he’d come to Florida. (He no longer does tours, unfortunately.)

YES! Immediately, I became an enthusiastic local representative, telling my friends about this therapy, making flyers about the upcoming visit, and sending interested people copies of the Biser newsletter to read about it for themselves. Anxiously, I awaited the therapy dates. Would it be painful? Would it work? Would it mess me up further? I had my doubts, but they were all put aside because, after all, I'd prayed for this therapy and now it was here. I trusted my gift.

Dr. Dean Howell is a sunny, cherub-faced, and charming man. As my husband Francois and I sat down with him the first day of four, he showed us the amazing before and after pictures of people he'd worked on in previous cities of the tour. He told us that the treatment did not hurt, as there were few nerves inside the sinuses and six nasal passages/chambers (there are 3 chambers to a side). The procedure required that he insert a balloon (actually, the plastic cover doctors use for fingers) placed over a small hand-pump into one of the chambers. He would then pump up the balloon, which would open up the locked bones, expanding the head.

A session with him would consist of first determining how one's structure is balance. Then, he would do the insertion and pump where the "opening up" was most needed to unlock the cranial bones. In places of extra lockdown or resistance, he would use up to 10 balloons, as this gave him extra pressure and power. Each insertion/pump would last between 2 to 6 seconds. At the end of each treatment, whether he used the balloon one time or four times, he would balance the whole physical structure. This sounded good, even though I still had trepidation.

Then it was finally time to experience it. How bizarre it was! It felt like plunging into a swimming pool and getting water up my nose. I felt the pressure, and then I felt the bones inside my head give way. It was almost as if a very soft screwdriver bore a hole into the most private recesses of my head.

Nobody had ever been in there before, so at first it felt like a violation of my privacy, my private space. But immediately, I felt an electric surge of energy, as if my whole system was waking up. I breathed a huge, clear breath---amazing! Getting up from the table, I looked at myself in the mirror. My narrow face was wider, rounder. My eyes were set differently and my face was softer - not so angular. Not that tightened look of pain. Again, amazing! I had cheekbones I never knew I had. Obviously, they'd been compressed for so very long.

Then Dr. Howell balanced my spine with a mixture of polarity, chiropractic-like adjustments and energy movement. I felt energy moving from my head all the way down my spine. He told me that was the freeing of the meninges, which are the fluid compartments surrounding the brain and spinal cord. They naturally determine where the skull and vertebrae sit and balance. When the cranium is locked up, they can't fulfill all of their functions.

The energy and freedom I began to feel with this "energy movement" of my meninges brought me, by the end of my first session, tremendous elation. That was the only way to describe what I felt. I had more bright energy than I knew what to do with, and danced around like a little girl. For years, I hadn't felt this awake and alert so that I had a hard time going to sleep that night. For the first time, it wasn't because of the pain, but because I was so incredibly awake.

The next day we returned for the second session of four. I told Dr. Howell how I felt, and he said not all people have that, only some of them. This day went like the first day, and from this session, I experienced incredible peace and balance. At least my nervous system allowed me to sleep that night, but the pain gradually came back in my head.

I returned disappointed and concerned on the third day. Dr. Howell checked me out and immediate told me that I was still locking up on my right side. So he did extra work on my right side. That night, Francois tested my vertebrae with kinesiology (muscle testing) and for the first time, my atlas and axis, the top two bones of my neck, were "in." The pain was gone and I slept just like a baby - it was wonderful!

The fourth day, we found that the right side was still locking up. Dr. Howell told me that my head had been sitting off to the left - all that violin playing! It was now sitting straighter on my neck. Dr. Howell got my "head on straight" literally! No wonder that no chiropractic adjustment held! In this final session, he discovered that my right side would move and then immediately slide back into the "lock." So he brought out six balloons and went in with more pressure. It really took a lot of strength and persistence, but those bones did give. Like the experience of the first day, this one breakthrough opened me up further. I felt energy rippling through my teeth, all over my head, and my brain/mind suddenly feel light and clear.

Although the basic treatment of four days in a row was finished, the changes in my system had just begun. This is not something to be done frequently. Obviously there are a lot of changes to go through before experiencing a second round of NCR. As of four weeks after the treatment, my head remained centered on my neck.

My Chiropractor commented on how she had no adjustments to make above the third lumbar. Previously, she'd had fifteen or twenty adjustments to make in a session. This time it was only three! She was amazed. She said she wanted to learn the system herself, and I hope she will, for all of South Florida's benefit. After all, there is only one "miracle master" right now, and he's going to get spread really thin around the country as people discover what NCR can do!

Other therapists were excited too. My massage therapist was delighted. A specialist in deep tissue work, she had to really sweat and strain to get into the tissue. Not any more!

My body let her in, down into deeper layers she'd never gotten into before. All the tension gave quickly, which was extraordinary too. Finally, she cleaned all the knots out of my neck and commented "your neck is perfect, like a seven-year old. This is the way a neck should be!"

I realized that my body was reflecting my move into a safer reality. After all, my "armoring" disappeared! And the muscles that had been in spasm for almost 20 years no longer held tension. But were they exhausted and weak from all that holding! I could barely do anything for awhile without tiring quickly. Now that was a strange feeling, because I had so much physical energy too!


I also returned to get a "fine tuning" from my Upledger practitioner. In the Upledger method, one monitors the rhythm, the pulse or breathing of the meninges. By placing the hands on particular points, like one does in light bodywork, the flow of the meninges, of the structural energy, can be redirected into balance.

She was as amazed as the others. "Your head bones are moving 300% more than before, better than someone who has had the head damage of jaw surgery as you've had!" This session reinforced the sense of inner peace I've had since NCR.

Now I'm sleeping better than in years --no pain! Even around the occipital ridge. The only pain I've been having has come from my structure overhauling itself. Pain comes in for a while in one area, then the next day moves to another spot.

My husband and I notice that if we hold our bodies in certain off-balanced ways, the pain temporarily returns. This is training us to keep better posture and to pay attention to our bodies' messages! After all, from the metaphysical standpoint, our old imbalanced postures were the physical expression of our negative agendas - our martyrhood, control trips, defensiveness, compromises, and resignations.

The pressure behind and above my eyes has abated, so it is more comfortable to fully open my eyes. Every day has brought some new discovery about my change as my posture shifts to more balance. My muscles, tired or not, show new tone - I feel younger and more energetic and adventurous than ever.

I get a kick out of being mistaken for a 30-something, even though I’m over 50. This may also be due to the "facelift" effect, as my new expanded cheekbones pulled up some saggy skin.

My self-image has improved, and my personality is stronger and more confident. Previously, I'd gone to parties and waited to be introduced, playing shy. In the first party I went to after NCR, I fearlessly held out my hand and introduced myself and met everybody. I didn't realize the difference until afterwards, it had seemed so natural!

My brain function has improved. Before, I had been so scatterbrained that, if I were interrupted, I would forget where I was. Then there would be such a struggle to reorient myself and remember what I had been doing and thinking before, that my life was just hard.

You know, there's lots of interruptions in life! Now, if I'm interrupted, I can simply return to what I was doing and thinking easily, no problem. My concentration and short term memory is better - I'm remembering people's names and getting more organized!

The changes were not without the accompanying emotional or trauma releases. I'd prepared by having spiritual, emotional, and physical healing work before the NCR. This minimized the resistance to healing as afterwards, I could fearlessly face my issues that new openness brought up.

Others weren't as prepared as I. One woman, who'd had a car accident three years earlier, had to relive the trauma of that event as well as ail the emotional "garbage" that had preceded and triggered it. Another woman I didn't know, but who'd received treatment just ahead of me one day, had to go through emotional trauma relating to her identity as a woman and her relationships with men. Not easy stuff. But you’re DONE with it – finally!

For some others, the experience was much easier. My husband Francois experienced a healing of his internal parental drive to please and succeed. He saw slightly better, and had an instant loss of his dyslexia. Now he doesn't have to think about "right" or "left." He just responds instinctively the correct way. He doesn't even transpose numbers anymore. It certainly helps to have the correct numbers if you want to call people back! It saves him the time of listening to his phone messages three and four times just to make sure he gets the numbers right. Life is easier for him now! And, from a wife’s perspective, I appreciate his improved good looks and sexy posture.

Our meditations improved as well. We feel it has something to do with the cranial opening, allowing improvement and integration of our brains’ functioning. Our temporal lobes, which are involved with emotions and intuitive perception, appear to be in the process of evolving and expanding their functions.

We are both much more intuitive and creative. The new quality and intensity of our visualizations and dreams has especially been rewarding. A sense of electricity, of magic, has seeped into our daily consciousness. Of course, with brain changes, consciousness changes come more easily. This is probably one reason why old emotional traumas release so quickly now.

It has now been four years since my first series of treatments with Dr. Howell. The long term effect of NCR has been to give me my life back, restore my immune system, and reopen possibilities/Visions/Dreams long closed.

Sometimes, when you look back at your past and its experiences, you’ll find one event or marker that stands out as a significant turning point. I have this with NCR, because I can say that my life took a new direction then. I became a new person, gaining new types of life experiences – and finding freedoms lost. If I had not found NCR, where would my pain and languishment have led me?

If it were up to me, I’d require every family to have an NCR doctor along with their family practitioner. Why? Because I know that if I had gotten NCR as a child, I wouldn’t have had to have 5 years of braces that didn’t work, and musculoskeletal pain that reduces functioning to nearly zero! And I definitely would want every child to get the chance to have the best, happiest, and most fulfilled life.

Now Dr. Howell is not your "regular" doctor. In order to learn more about why some patients have fantastic experiences and others must go through interminable emotional releases to get their healings and realignments, Dr. Howell has done his research. He has traveled around the country visiting other doctors, learning their approaches and looking for insights.

Now how many doctors do you know are willing to do that? Dr. Howell has continued to integrate them into a phenomenally successful system that reduces potential trauma and accelerates astounding healing. After all, if you want the greatest healing effect, go to the cause. And what are more basic that structure, alignment, balance, and brain function? That’s why I think Dr. Howell is on to something that is simply stupendous.

It is my feeling that in the future, people won’t have to suffer the trauma I have had, due to the exploding numbers of new techniques, concepts, and methodologies becoming available. Integration of these new approaches will give us more elegant ways to heal and change. And Dr. Howell is one of those who are already creating a synergistic path. Believe me, once you have experienced NCR, you'll be able to integrate your life more quickly too! And you’ll discover abilities and powers you never knew you had.

Conclusion: This is perhaps the most extraordinary and fast healing method available. Used proactively, it can avoid vast amounts of human suffering and limitation. You‘ll never know what I’m talking about unless you experience NCR for yourself. And what if you don’t? You may be missing a key to your life, your health, and your happiness.

Don’t miss this experience.

Ginger Chalford, Ph.D

The most important and profound medical breakthrough of the 20th century is NeuroCranial Restructuring (NCR). NCR optimizes brain functioning, which is the foundation of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being.

The brain is like a sponge, saturated with vital fluids. When there is mechanical pressure on the brain from the skull—which is the case for almost all of us—parts of the brain do not receive all the nutrients, hormones, etc. that they need.

NCR unlocks the skull so that the brain can freely expand and function at its full capacity. The skull begins to lock at birth as it is squeezed through the birth canal. Its various bones become compressed and jammed at the sutures and to this extent the meninges—the rubber band-like sack that surrounds and protects the brain—cannot fully expand.

Physical and emotional traumas in any part of the body create a snowball effect, constricting the skull: the meninges tighten and the skull compresses, making the meninges tighten further, etc. When the skull shape degenerates from its original design, the head no longer sits properly on the spine. The spine takes on a distorted shape to support a lopsided head, and the spinal muscles become tight to hold it in place. The muscles function like cables holding up as tree—without this tightness, the person would fall over.

This is why so often massage and chiropractic provide only temporary relief: the spinal distortion and tight muscles are necessary to stabilize an imbalanced head. When symptoms are treated by merely straightening the spine and relaxing the muscles, the body returns to the dysfunctional and sometimes painful position because it’s more stable overall.

If instead one treats the cause by restoring the skull to its original design, the muscles relax and the spine returns to its optimal position on its own. Since this is truly a more stable position, it holds permanently (barring more physical or emotional trauma).

NCR is the only therapy that creates permanent, incremental change towards an optimally shaped and positioned skull and spine—and thus an optimally functioning nervous system. This has profound physical effects, such as increased ease, flexibility, energy and mobility as well as relief from a variety of conditions, including breathing disorders, sinus problems, headaches, TMJ, neck and shoulder pain, muscle spasms, scoliosis, seizures, vision problems, whiplash, dyslexia, insomnia, snoring, ear infections, hearing disorders, sleep apnea, Dystonia and Parkinson’s tremors.

NCR also has profound mental and emotional effects, such as relief from anxiety, phobias, depression, hyperactivity, nervousness, learning disabilities and even lessening of the effects of Down’s syndrome and Alzheimer’s. A person feels more relaxed, happy and self-confident. Relationships improve. Learning becomes easier. Creativity is enhanced.

People receiving NCR also report an increased ability to concentrate and focus as well as a greater ease in achieving clarity and insight. Meditators and others who wish to develop themselves spiritually find that NCR makes this much easier and more joyful.

The Age of Aquarius has promised a higher level in human consciousness and well being. NCR is a significant—perhaps the most significant—therapy facilitating this shift.

Take for example Xander Kriger who began treatment with Dr. Dean Howell, the founder of NCR, at 1 day of age. Xander, who is now 15 months old, has experienced approximately 24 treatments with Dr. Howell. When Xander had his 12-month checkup, doctors were amazed, saying that he was the most neurologically advanced baby they had ever seen. He was put through the tests for 18-month-old children and easily passed. Xander has been walking since 8 1/2 months of age-- child.

Dr. Howell does not believe that Xander is a superbaby but merely normal unimpeded in his neurological development because his skull is unlocked and exerting no pressure on his brain. Most other children do not develop as quickly, and are functionally impeded even into adulthood, because they don’t have this advantage.

Imagine if masses of children and adults received NCR. Our society would be transformed, propelled into an overall higher state of development with the vastly increased physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being.

Through NCR we could be happier and more at ease with one another. This would vastly reduce all individual and societal conflict. We would also be sharper mentally and clearer emotionally, making it easier to tackle world problems together and solve them. We would be better equipped with the creativity and insight to formulate a common vision of our future and to implement it.

There is no limit to what we can achieve now individually and collectively with optimal brain and nervous system functioning. Our full potential is waiting to be released with NCR therapy.

Trisha Howell, MA

According to Merck's Manual (the bible of the medical profession), sleep apnea syndromes are "a group of potentially lethal disorders in which breathing stops during sleep for long enough periods of time to cause a reduction of oxygen in the blood." There are several possible causes and several treatments suggested, but none as revolutionary and effective as NeuroCranial Restructuring (NCR) which totally handled this serious problem in Phillip, one of my associates and fellow natural healing crusaders.

He suffered from sleep apnea for years, awakening some 40 times each hour. Doctors advised that without a mechanical breathing machine he would probably die. No drugs or nutrition, including his excellent command of herbal healing, was effective.

Then he saw a naturopathic doctor in Everett, Washington who has perfected this unusual therapy, and his sleep became relaxed and restful, and that's not all. His backaches left for good and the treatments even "fixed" his broken nose so completely that a doctor he'd been seeing insisted that he had plastic surgery to straighten it. All he really did was get his head on straight.

The Everett, WA naturopath, Dean Howell, tells us, "the skull is like an eight to ten pound bowling ball sitting on top of a pool stick. If the body didn't balance the ball on top, you’d fall over and have to crawl on the ground. Since the body prefers pain to falling over, it will deliberately move the spinal bones (and other organs and tissues) out of place to stabilize itself."

There are actually two problems occurring in the head that force the body to make compensations. In addition to a head that is not centered over the spine, it is also an irregular shape. This pinches and constricts the brain, forcing it to function abnormally slow and somewhat retarded.

"The skull is a container for the brain and the fluids that flow through it." Dr. Howell continues, "there is a small membrane lining the inside of the skull and the brain has to fit inside that. Imagine your brain as a sponge. If you have a round sponge in a square box, there is a squeezing of the sponge and a restriction of the fluid flow within the crimped areas." NCR gives the brain more breathing room to function.

As part of my recent dental surgery, my bite was realigned, correcting a misalignment I had all my life. But, the rest of my body was not ready for correctly aligned teeth. My Eustachian tubes blocked, destroying most of my hearing. It was like trying to hear through gallons of water sloshing around.

Before discovering NCR, I tried everything: herbs, essential oils, massage, chiropractic adjustments, and so on. While some of these treatments were somewhat effective for a while, nothing restored very much of my hearing. I had a 100% blockage in my right ear and 70% in my left.

With Philip's suggestion, I got 4 treatments from one of Dr. Howell's students who was learning NCR in a special Las Vegas class that the doctor was officiating. My left ear opened completely and my right ear improved to 45% or 50% of normal.

These changes were also visible, noticed by my husband — my cheekbones are wider now — and by examination of the ear canal itself.

Then I saw Dr. Howell for my next 4 treatments, about 60 days later. I experienced a return of nearly normal hearing in both ears. I only have an occasional bubbling in my right ear--the one that was totally blocked after the bite realignment of my teeth.

We believe there is a place for all effective forms of therapy, and you should go to the right place at the right time. Structural problems must be addressed by structural alignment methods. The arsenal of natural healing gets more complete each day.

Marge Hartwig

For many years I had suffered from a strange set of problems EVERY NIGHT for which many doctors had a wide range of opinions but provided no solutions. I would wake up continually throughout the night, often choking and gasping for air to the point that it many times would propel me out of bed and onto the floor. Other times I would experience a short period of total paralysis upon awakening. The doctors had me see "specialists" who were unable to figure out what the problem was. The effects upon awakening also included extreme headaches and dizziness that were so debilitating that it made going to work each morning very difficult. Quite often I would not be able to go to work because it would take many hours until prescription drugs could relieved the problem.

In addition, I was told that I had a deviated septum.

In late 1995 I had a sleep study test where brain and breathing activity are monitored while I slept in a laboratory. The results were very bad. It showed the reason for all my problems. I had a condition called sleep apnea and would stop breathing about 40 times an hour, waking me up continuously. The "specialist" stated that my condition was serious and that I would have to sleep every night for the rest of my life hooked up to a machine that would keep me breathing while asleep. In addition, the "specialist" told me I would probably require surgery that would remove the soft palate area of my mouth.

I was told that people with this bad of a condition were at very serious risk if they did not listen to the experts. Fortunately, I discovered that most people who underwent the surgery still had the problem-minus the removed body parts. I refused that option. God gave us these body parts for a reason!

Also, I was very uncomfortable sleeping hooked up to this machine with a mask covering my face and all the attached tubes. So that was also out of the question. I was facing serious trouble and had no alternative.

Then, through Sam Biser's "The Last Chance Health Letter," I read about the treatments of Dr. Howell. It sure seemed to be a logical approach. He would treat the underlying CAUSE of the problem WITHOUT drugs, surgery, or negative side effects. This was both completely natural and entirely opposite of the "specialists" who only treat symptoms with drugs and surgery, and have a success rate which hovers around zero. (This is shown by the steadily increasing number of Americans whose lives are seriously impaired by this problem every day.)

I first saw Dr. Howell in March 1996. After the first set of his treatments, there was major improvement. During the following 6 weeks I had only a couple of episodes of the apnea and they were very minor. No more total paralysis or gasping for air. About two months after the first treatment I went again and at that point the problem was finally eliminated! Photographs taken before and after even show cosmetic changes.

It is now April 1998, more than two years later, and I no longer have any apnea problems. NCR has resolved this terrible problem for good.

NOTE: Since then, I have tried to speak about this with my local sleep apnea group over at the local hospital. Unfortunately, the "sleep specialist", who had a room full of people with breathing machines and masks and/or missing body parts, would not allow me a few words to tell others about this simple and natural technique. It appeared that his only intention was to perpetuate these peoples' suffering and sell machines and surgery and was not interested in any way to relieve their never ending misery. I now believe many of today's doctors need to be tested for a conscience.

Dr. Howell may not be well known, but if you ask ANY of his patients you would begin to realize his technique is something very special. While this treatment has about 5-10 seconds of pain for most people, (for the first few treatments), this may be its strongest testimony. Why would people continue to take time off from work and fly thousands of miles to experience painful treatments if not for the amazing results? The answer is that they receive improvement that no other technique could ever even come close to. His office is a much different doctor's office, as people are improving and regaining their lives after years of suffering.

Phillip Rogers--Las Vegas, NV