Dr. Anthony Pellegrino, DC, DACCP, CSSPP, CSCPP, CBS, is a practicing pediatric chiropractor, craniopath and Certified Breastfeeding Specialist in Wall Township, NJ. Through The Cranial Doc he teaches cranial mastery to pediatric chiropractors: 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.
He graduated from Life University in 2015, built a seven-figure pediatric practice that runs this specialty every day, and hosts The Cranial Doc Podcast.
When I sat down to start learning cranial work, every case I didn’t get results with flashed before my eyes. I didn’t even know what was possible until I learned it.
That was 2020. I graduated from Life University in 2015, and pediatrics was the direction from day one. I was publishing case studies on ADHD and autism while still in school, my wife was an ICU nurse, and kids were a constant conversation at home. I was seeing them early in practice, but I didn’t understand what I was actually looking at.
Those first five years were a gap in everything. Clinically, in the business, everywhere. In year three I spent six months in overdraft and paid $3,500 in overdraft fees.
What changed it was Dr. Marty Rosen’s work. It stopped me. Decades of clinical refinement concentrated into one system, and I knew immediately this was what I had to study to be the best at something that mattered clinically for these kids. I set out to learn directly from Marty, and I have for years. The drilling, the corrections, the repetition. His body of work is the foundation everything I teach is built on.
The population that reaches me: birth trauma presentations, latch failures, post-NICU, plagiocephaly, torticollis, sleep dysregulation, sensory and neurodevelopmental cases, and adults with TMJ and the cascade of issues that follow from it. The thread connecting all of them is cranial subluxation.
The cranial exam I run has three components, and they don’t work in isolation. For infants especially, I’m looking at tongue function, nervous system adaptability and development, and cranial shape and function. Each piece matters. When all three converge in the same patient, that’s the case I most want a doctor to be able to read.
The correction work is light force, specific, and sequenced. I’m assessing suture mobility, sphenobasilar patterns, dural tension, and cranial subluxations in a way that builds a clinical story before I touch anything. The technique is drawn from the SOT cranial path (CSSPP/CSCPP) and refined through years of clinical volume. Force is minimal. What changes in the room is the kid’s state. Parents notice it before I say anything.
Absolute Chiropractic runs 300 to 400 visits a week in Wall Township, NJ. Depending on the week, 40 to 50 percent of the caseload is pediatric, and most of the rest is adults with TMJ. The referrals come from IBCLCs, pediatric dentists, OTs and PTs, and they tend to arrive already primed. Every family gets a full walkthrough of what the exam found, what it means, and what the correction sequence is working toward. Parents need to understand the clinical story, not just receive care.
I’ve been teaching in one form or another since I started in practice. For a number of years I ran a podcast called the Chiropractic Research Breakdown. When I started to get a grip on cranial work, I knew that if half of pediatric chiropractors knew only half of this work, our profession would look different. So I tried to help wherever I could, and started The Cranial Doc podcast. Doctors liked how I taught it, and the rest is history.
The training is for the doc who is already seeing these kids, already committed to this work, and knows they’re leaving clinical results on the table. It covers three things: 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.