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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 […]