# Trepenation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 6, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trepenation/159474 "2003-03-06T12:55:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![green\_disk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/59ef9b/32.png) [@green\_disk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_disk)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trepenation/159474/1 "2003-03-06T12:55:54Z")
Ok… I am not on to say who is right or wrong, and I do understand that you had said that trepenation was once used as a surgery to relieve pressure…etc… I do a lot of studying on my own and I have found that, yes Trepenatia was used as a surgical procedure to releive stress in certain areas of the brian. ( like to stimulate blood-flow and so on). As it turns out it was also once believe to be a spiritual thing. To get a “new point of view on things…” It was ''re-instated" as a form of open a new way to open the mind " A.K.A. sixth sense, or third-eye" type deal… In other words it is now used as a spiritual thing… ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trepenation/159474/2 "2003-03-06T13:40:44Z")
Link: [What’s the story on trepanation? (06-Sep-2002)](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020906.html)