Chiari (pronounced kee-aa-ree) malformation is a group of conditions where the lower back part of your brain pushes against or into the hole where your spinal cord enters your skull, called the ...

Anthropologists confirm a direct link between upright two-legged (bipedal) walking and the position of the foramen magnum, a hole in the base of the skull that transmits the spinal cord. Anthropology ...

My patient is a 27-year-old woman who has been suffering severe headaches for the last year. Her headaches are aggravated by cough and mild sneezing, and have not responded to treatment with ...

On the bottom of your skull, there is a distinctive hole. The technical name for the opening is the foramen magnum – the “great hole” that the spinal cord and other critical soft tissues run through.