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The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Welcome to The Cranial Doc Podcast — the place where mission-driven chiropractors come to sharpen their craft, master communication, upgrade their systems, and stop running their practices like high-income hobbies. I'm Dr. Anthony Pellegrino — ADHD-fueled pediatric chiro, craniopath, tech nerd, and unapologetic subluxation-slayer. For the last decade, I've been obsessed with one thing: How do we deliver insane clinical outcomes, build emotionally connected teams, scale without selling out… and…
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- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Ep 51 | I Only Learn When It Hurts
In year three of practice, I paid $3,500 in overdraft fees and spent six months in overdraft. My best year ever ended with a phone call telling me I owed the…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Ep 50 | The 77,000 Child Study Every Chiropractor Should Know
A study of over 77,000 children found a gap. In the plagiocephaly group, 17.5% later received a developmental delay diagnosis. In the group without it, 8.7%…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Ep 49 | Always, Sometimes, Never: The List That Lets Your Practice Run Without You
Dr. Jacoby Holman adjusted me at an event. He paired plantar and dorsiflexion with the breath phases on every adjustment. I used the same tool only in extreme…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Ep 48 | Why Your Cranial Adjustments Are Not Holding
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Ep 47 - Why Patients Feel More After You Adjust Them
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
46 - Am I the Fix or Am I Building the Fix?
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
45 - Execute, Build, or Delegate: My New AI Workflow
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
44 - The Third F: Freeze
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
43 - The Brachy Case That Won't Budge
A chiropractor messaged me after running a case through the free cranial calculator. Her cranial vault asymmetry index was improving. Her cephalic index would…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
42 - Logic Doesn't Answer to a Fast Nervous System
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
41 - Why Dental Hygienists Are Asking For Nervous System Talks Now
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
40 - Your ADHD Patient Is a Ferrari Stuck Plowing a Field
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
39 - The Referral Script That Gets Lactation Consultants to Send You Patients
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
38 - The Sleep Hack I Give Patients More Than Anything Else
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
37 - Stop Guessing How Hard to Push on the Cranium
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
36 - Ear Infections, Tinnitus, and TMJ Are the Same Mechanical Story
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 Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
35 - Hot Girl Tummy Troubles: A Vagus Nerve Case Study
I ended up on my bathroom floor on Father's Day. Cold sweat, room spinning, dry heaving, genuinely wondering if I was dying. Turns out it wasn't a tumor. It…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
34 - Stop Guessing. Start Feeling. Start Fixing.
Doing the basics extraordinarily well beats chasing advanced technique. Every time. Dr. Anthony breaks down the real reason most chiropractors stall out with…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
33 - Postpartum Jaw Tension Was Never About Stress
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
32 - Follow Irreversible Insights
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
31 - AI Is Recommending Your Competitor Right Now, and You Don't Even Know It
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
30 - The Roof Of The Mouth Is Telling You Everything
Everybody laughs about brain freeze. Your kids laugh about it. Your patients laugh about it. Hell, half the specialists your migraine patients have already…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
29- Stop Adjusting The Cranium Before You Clear The Pelvis
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 28 - The Pediatrician Should Be Sending Families to You: Here's Why They're Not
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 27 – Chiropractic Is for Everyone. You Are Not Everyone's Chiropractor.
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 26 - Hard Cases Don't Need A New Tool. They Need A Deeper Doctor
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 25 - The Red Flags That Scream "A Computer Wrote This"
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 24 -One Inch Wide, One Mile Deep, The Philosophy That Built a 7-Figure Practice
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…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 23 - Your Kids Don't Care About Your Collections
Real talk.. you keep saying you'll take the trip when things calm down. But here's the hard truth: things don't calm down. You decide they're calm enough, and…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 22 - Stop Doing a FLYING 7 on Your Practice
If your practice feels stuck, you're not adding patients fast enough. You're leaking them too fast. Most docs are obsessed with new patients. Fair. But if you…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 21 - How I Went From Drowning in Spreadsheets to 30-Second Ad Audits.
_*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> You're not a CEO. You're a data janitor. Let's fix that. _*]:min-w-0 gap-3"> If your Monday starts with you opening 14 tabs, chasing your…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 20 - Your CA Is Saying All the Right Words So Why Aren't Patients Converting?
Three for 15. That's what mission misalignment actually costs you. Not a vibe. Not a feeling. A body count of unconverted patients — and a CA who was…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 19 - The Cranial Pattern Hiding in Plain Sight on Your Patient's Face
Let's talk about the thing hiding in plain sight — on your patient's face, in their sleep patterns, in the way their jaw drifts to one side. Most parents think…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 18 - Palate Expanders Don't Fix Nervous Systems
Hard truth: expanders are not the villain. But neither are they the miracle. There are two cults in this profession when it comes to palate expanders — the…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 17 – The 6-Block Spine Every Chiro Workshop Needs (and Almost No One Uses)
You love teaching. But are your workshops actually changing anyone — or just entertaining them for 60 minutes? There's a massive difference between a workshop…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 16 - You're Overpaying Your Team to Click Buttons (and There's a Fix)
Your team is busy. Your calendar is full. And almost none of it is moving the needle. Dr. Anthony just came off one of those weeks — packed, exhausting, and…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 15 - If You're Eyeballing Tongue Ties, You're Part of the Problem
If your tongue tie "exam" is a glance and a gut feeling… You're guessing. And if your answer is either "Laser it" or "Adjust it forever" You're still guessing…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 14 - The Tool That Saved Me From Procrastination Hell
Let's be honest. Time management isn't your problem. Decision fatigue is. If you're anything like me — slightly ADHD, highly creative, wildly ambitious — your…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 13 - The 3 Forces Driving Plagiocephaly (And the One Everyone Ignores)
Let's get something straight. Plagiocephaly is not a flat-head problem. It's a growth + constraint problem — and if you don't understand the pattern, you'll…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 12 - Stop Explaining Cranials. Start Showing the Numbers
Let's get uncomfortable for a second. If parents don't have a clear, objective scoreboard, your pediatric ROF is already slipping — even if your care is…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 11 - Stop Paying for Wrong Phone Calls: Google Ads Done Right
If you're running Google Ads — or paying someone else to — this episode might save you thousands. In this episode, Dr. Anthony Pellegrino breaks down exactly…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 10 - The Genius With A Thousand Helpers
Most chiropractors don't have a team problem. They have an ownership problem. In this episode, Dr. Anthony Pellegrino walks you straight through the exact…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 9 - Why Babies Gag, Kids Refuse Toothbrushing, and Adults Clench: Same Mechanism
Most people think the gag reflex is a "mouth thing." It's not. It's a brainstem survival reflex — and it shows up in different outfits depending on age: Babies…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 8 - The Dumbest Way Chiropractors Lose New Patients
If you're paying for traffic… Paying for ads… Paying for SEO… …and your phone rings when the office is closed? There's a very real chance you're lighting money…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 7 - Why Your Practice Is Busy, Growing… and Still Strapped
Let's get uncomfortable for a second. If your ads are "working"… Your practice is growing… But your bank account feels tight as hell — You're not crazy. Your…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 6 - Airway, Anxiety, and Anterior Head Posture — The Unholy TMJ Trinity
Most TMJ cases aren't jaw problems. They're full-body stability problems that just happen to show up at the jaw first. And if you keep adjusting the same areas…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 5 - Stop Blaming the Gut — Start Looking at the Brainstem
Let's cut the crap — most chiropractors are still explaining colic like it's a gas bubble with an attitude problem. But if you've actually looked at these…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 4 - Parents in Fight-or-Flight Don't Buy; Predictability Does
Let's get brutally honest — your pediatric Day 1/Day 2 is probably stressing parents out more than their kid's sleep regression. And stressed parents don't…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 3 - The Jaw-Dropping Truth About Pediatric Airway — And Why You're Missing It
Unmasking ADHD with Cranial Chiropractic Care Ready for a clinical breakthrough? Today's episode dives into how a narrow airway and cranial structure changes…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 2 - From Anxiety to Airway: Why We're Failing Our Kids
Mastering Cranial Chiropractic: The Next Frontier In this episode of the Cranial Doc podcast, Dr. Anthony Pellegrino sounds a clarion call to pediatric…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 0 - The Introduction to The Return
From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Cranial Doc's Return In the introductory episode of The Cranial Doc Podcast, Dr. Anthony Pellegrino shares his journey from…
- The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors
Episode 1 - Stop Letting AI Sound Like a Robot: Here's the Secret Sauce
Cracking the Code: Authentic AI-Generated Content for Your Chiropractic Practice Welcome to Episode 1 of the Cranial Doc Podcast! Dr. Anthony Pellegrino dives…