One of the most common but often overlooked problems resulting from skull trauma is the cranial suture injury. Cranial suture injuries occur when the skull is thrown against an immovable object ...

The team, led by Giuseppe Intini, a bone biologist at the University of Pittsburgh, first compared the cell composition of the calvarial suture—which joins the bilateral bones in the roof of the skull ...

Now many people think of the skull as one solid bowling ball type object, however, the osteopaths believe that the sutures or joints in the skull are movable as long as the patient is alive.

[3] Figure 1 illustrates the boney anatomy of the normal skull sutures and fontanelles. The newborn infant's skull is incompletely ossified and the cranial sutures are normally open at birth ...