History and Background

There used to have divided opinions among medical practitioners about whether there are movements of cranial bones. In 1939, William Garner Sutherland was the first scientist discovered the possible movement of cranial bones. Recent science experiments and medical instruments such as CT Scan justified Sutherland's discovery and have shown that facial and cranial bones are not fused together, rather they could have certain kind of motion, "flexion" and "extension", as per what Sutherland called. This discovery laid the important foundation of various cranial bone manipulations for subsequent medical treatments and therapies. As it had been proven by various clinical research and experiments that proper re-alignment of cranial bones can have therapeutic results to various kinds of physiological problems, different cranial bone manipulation techniques were developed.

In 2005, a group of cranial practitioners in Hong Kong established
the Association of Asian Cranial Practitioners, aiming to provide an alternative way of wellness to people in Asia. The mission is that based on Cranial Alignment Therapy (CAT), developed by Prof. Brian Y.K. Chan, and the related training program towards the accreditation of Certified Cranial Alignment Therapist (CCAT), even medical laymen should be able to help people restoring cranial bone motion to its optimum and facial features can be improved as well.