Charles L. Blum, DC, CSCP is in private practice Santa Monica, California since 1981 and is a graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College - Los Angeles. He is an adjunct research faculty at Cleveland Chiropractic College and associate faculty at Southern California University of Health Sciences, teaching cranial biodynamics and cranial technique. Dr. Blum teaches the sacro occipital technique (SOT) elective class at Palmer College of Chiropractic West and Southern California University of Health Sciences. Dr. Blum is a Certified Sacro Occipital Technique Cranial Practitioner, and has been on the peer review board of the Journal of Craniomandibular and Sleep Practice (CRANIO), Association of Chiropractic College Conferences, and Journal of Chiropractic Medicine.

He has lectured nationally and internationally, chair of the annual SOT Research Conferences, has written various SOT related texts, compiled SOT and cranial related research, and extensively publishes in multiple peer reviewed indexed journals and at research conferences from 1984 to the present. Dr. Blum is the past president of Sacro Occipital Technique Organization (SOTO) – USA, now their research chair, as well as the SOTO-USA representative to the Alliance of TMD Organizations and actively co- treating TMJ patients with dentists. He was a Senior Clinical Instructor in the Cranial Facial/TMJ Clinic with in the ENT Department at the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, California 2010-2012.