The training

Cranial adjusting. The technique, the exam, and the practice built around it.

For the pediatric DC who is serious about this work. Whether you’re building cranial adjusting into your practice for the first time or you’ve trained before and the harder cases still aren’t moving, this is where the foundation gets built correctly.

The training covers the technique drilled to automatic, the exam language that walks a family through findings with authority, and the practice economics that make delivering this work sustainable.

Currently open

Founder Program. Wall Township, NJ.

Additional programs at other locations coming.

Dr. Anthony Pellegrino performing a cranial adjustment on a child at Absolute Chiropractic.

01

The technique

The correction work is drawn from the SOT cranial path (CSSPP/CSCPP) and refined through years of clinical volume at a practice running 300 to 400 visits per week. Light force, specific, sequenced. Suture mobility, sphenobasilar patterns, dural tension, cranial bone position. The assessment builds a clinical story before anything gets corrected. The goal of the intensive is automaticity. Your hands move through the sequence without your brain narrating it. You arrive having already worked through the online content and practiced on real people. The weekend corrects what’s breaking down, under direct supervision.


02

The exam and the language around it

The three-component exam covers tongue function, nervous system adaptability and development, and cranial shape and function. Each piece matters, but when all three converge in the same patient, that’s where the results no one else is getting come from. Parents need to understand the clinical story, not just receive care. The doc who can walk a family through findings with clinical authority is the doc who gets the referral call from the IBCLC, the pediatric dentist, the OT who needs a different lens on a case that their tools aren’t reaching. That referral chain is built on communication, not just technique. The program covers both.


03

The practice economics

Forty to fifty percent of the caseload at Absolute Chiropractic is pediatric. The referral channels feeding it are IBCLCs, pediatric dentists, and OTs and PTs who need a clinical lens that isn’t bound by insurance reimbursement structures. Those referrals arrive already primed. The fee structure, care plan design, and scheduling architecture that make a specialty practice like that sustainable are built into the program. The numbers come from a practice that runs this work every day. You leave knowing what it costs to deliver one adjustment, what your fees need to be, and what a well-built cranial care plan is worth when it’s presented with confidence.


04

How it’s structured

Each program is online pre-work followed by a hands-on intensive. The online content comes first. By the time you arrive at the intensive, you’ve already worked through the material and practiced on real people. You know exactly where you’re breaking down. The weekend fixes that.

The program is an L1 + L2 bundle. Two intensives separated by roughly six months. The space between them is deliberate. You go back to practice, run the material on real cases, and arrive at the second intensive with specific questions. That gap is part of the training.

Eighteen seats per program. Hands-on drilling time is the limiting factor, and that cap protects it.

For: Pediatric DCs. No prior cranial training needed.


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