Sacro Occipital Technique

Many people with ongoing issues have tried MDs, Physical Therapy, Acupuncture and even other chiropractors with limited success. A Sacro Occipital chiropractor is different not just in technique, but the way of looking at the body. The founder of SOT’s life, Dr. Major DeJarnette, reads like a superhero origin story. As an engineer, he was nearly killed in a factory explosion. He attended Osteopathic and Chiropractic college to receive treatment. Later, doing research on light therapy, he invented color photography which he sold to Kodak. From then on, he never charged patients and devoted his life to treating, research and teaching chiropractic.

Dr. DeJarnette found that the nervous system is affected by both joint restriction and instability. Both directly impinge nerves or limit the craniosacral pump. He developed specific tests to determine how different parts of the body, including the skull and jaw relate to each other to respond to restriction and instability and methods to treat those imbalances. Other chiropractic techniques treat instability the same way they treat restriction. That can cause more instability. The beauty of the SOT’s gentle approach is that it treats both.

There are now two SOT technique organizations that teach chiropractors all over the world, however, due to its complexity, there are few who pursue this path. Dr. Smith is the only chiropractor in the San Francisco Bay Area who is certified in both SOT adjusting and cranial therapy.