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I corrected the right subluxation on a plagiocephaly case. The baby did not respond. A friend asked me one question, and it changed my care. The question was about what I did after the adjustment. I had skipped the level one CSF and dural work. I thought the basic stuff was beneath me. Here is […]

A patient retraces. The pain shows up in a new spot. What do you say? A Foundations of Cranial Adjusting Q&A before level one sent me back to D.D. Palmer. It also sent me to Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score. Here is where I land. The body shows the nervous system’s […]

Last quarter I lost a doctor and my office manager of seven years. I hired a wave of new CAs and moved into the office about 50 hours a week, plus another 20 at home. The practice still posted a record quarter. Then my quarterly prep skill showed me what I had been ignoring. When […]

In past episodes I showed you how we run our Google Ads and Meta analysis through Claude. It worked. It was also a lot of clicking. At first I spent one to two hours a week on it. Then we used n8n to pull the reports automatically. Then Claude Code started reading the folder on […]

A patient came in with two complaints. Headache. Jaw pressure. She had a concussive injury a while back, and that was the whole list she gave me. I ran a full evaluation, including our FOCUS protocol with Dr. Aimee Spoelstra even though I don’t usually run that complete neuro workup on adults. I expected massive […]

A chiropractor messaged me after running a case through the free cranial calculator. Her cranial vault asymmetry index was improving. Her cephalic index would not move. That one message is this whole episode. Most of us learned cranial measurement through a plagiocephaly lens. Asymmetry in, asymmetry out. That lens will carry you through a lot […]

Dr. Anthony was listening to Huberman Lab and heard a mention of research on the neurophysiology of choking under pressure. Not the gag reflex kind, the high stakes performance kind. He couldn’t stop thinking about how directly it maps onto every patient sitting in your office stuck in chronic sympathetic stress. The stress response runs […]

A friend of Dr. Anthony’s just got asked to speak at his state dental hygienist association’s conference. In the past they’d booked a chiropractor to talk ergonomics and stretches. This time the request was different: talk to us about the nervous system. Nobody had to convince them. They got there on their own. This episode […]

Your ADHD patient can get through the test with his eyes open. Close his eyes, same test, and the whole thing falls apart. That’s not two different kids. That’s one kid whose Ferrari has been plowing a field all day. This episode breaks down an analogy Dr. Anthony’s been using in office for months, the […]

A four-month-old walks into your office with a torticollis diagnosis already in hand from the pediatrician. Three months of chin stretches. No change in the photos. And you’re standing there looking at the face in front of you wondering how the rest of it got missed. This episode names that pattern: JET syndrome. Jaw, eye, […]

Your patient’s insomnia isn’t a melatonin problem. It’s a rumination problem, and the fix I hand out more than anything else isn’t a supplement or a weighted blanket. It’s stand-up comedy. In this one, I break down: Why rumination, not noise or light, is what’s actually keeping patients awake The vagus nerve mechanism behind why […]

Most cranial techniques pick one level of force and call it gospel. That’s why one doc feels like a feather and the next feels like they’re trying to crack a walnut, and why patients keep telling us how inconsistent this work looks from provider to provider. In this episode, Dr. Anthony breaks down the four […]

The eustachian tube can’t open itself. It’s a passive structure that sits closed by default, and the only thing that opens it is a muscle bolted directly onto the bone you adjust every day. This episode breaks down the mechanism after Dr. Anthony sat through a live dissection from Anatomy Trains on head and neck […]

Your patient feels incredible after the adjustment. Two days later they’re tight again, back on your table three times a week to maintain it. That’s not your technique failing. That’s a loop you only interrupted at one point. This episode breaks down the actual neurology connecting the jaw and the pelvic floor, and why neither […]

You drove home from that seminar with a full heart and an empty notebook. This episode is about why that keeps happening. We get into: The three C’s of leadership: charisma, competence, and content. Most people only have one. Why some speakers sound incredible, then you realize two days later you learned nothing The difference […]

You built the website. You earned the reviews. You did the local SEO the right way for a decade, and it worked. But your research-heavy parents and complex-case adults aren’t starting on Google anymore. They’re opening ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude and asking, in plain language, “who’s the best nervous system chiro near me?” They get […]

Everybody laughs about brain freeze. Your kids laugh about it. Your patients laugh about it. Hell, half the specialists your migraine patients have already seen have probably had one. What nobody realizes is that the same mechanism behind a 30-second brain freeze may be sitting underneath years of headaches, sinus pressure, TMJ dysfunction, clenching, and […]

If you’re jumping straight to the cranium without clearing pelvic instability first, there’s a good chance you’re chasing compensation instead of solving the pattern. This episode breaks down the progression Dr. Anthony sees over and over: The infant with sphenoid restriction and feeding issues. The kid who never sleeps deeply and mouth breathes through half […]

The pediatrician should be referring to you. Not the ENT. Not the myofunctional therapist. You. That’s not a fantasy. It’s what happens when chiropractors own this work the way it deserves to be owned. This episode is Dr. Anthony laying out exactly what he built, why he built it, and who it’s for. No mechanism […]

Ten years in practice. 121 chiropractors within 10 miles. Half that radius is the Atlantic Ocean. And honestly, saying no is one of the biggest reasons the practice finally got easier. This episode breaks down the framework we use to decide who belongs in our office and who we’d rather send somewhere else. We stopped […]

This one’s a little different. For the last few weeks I’ve been prepping my 25-minute ICPA talk, closing out Friday night, cranial work and mastery. Last week I recorded myself running through it so I could listen back in the car. Made a ton of changes after. Figured, might as well release it to my […]

Most of what you’re reading in chiropractic circles right now was written by a computer. And your readers already know it. The second they clock the pattern, they’re gone. Doesn’t matter how good the idea was. This week I’m walking you through my actual AI Red Flags Document, the checklist I upload to every project […]

Here’s the hard truth: most chiropractors hit a ceiling and the industry tells them to go wider: add laser, add soft wave, add red light, do more. Dr. Anthony Pellegrino hit that same ceiling and told the industry to go to hell. Instead, he went deeper. Cranial chiropractic. One niche. One mile deep. And built […]