John e upledger biography

John E. Upledger was co-founder of Upledger Institute International, Inc. and former medical director of Upledger Clinical Services.
Born on February 10, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Upledger was an unassuming child who would grow up to change the world for healthcare practitioners.
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Dr. John E. Upledger was co-founder of Upledger Institute International, Inc. and former medical director of Upledger Clinical Services. Born on February 10, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Upledger passed away on October 26, 2012 at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. For manual therapists and other healthcare practitioners worldwide, his legacy is his generosity of spirit in sharing his discoveries and knowledge and ensuring their right to practice, For his patients and the patients of his students, his legacy is an open mind and heart to the validity of non-traditional medical approaches. For his family and good friends everywhere, his legacy is to stay with your journey despite the obstacles. He has proudly passed the torch From His Hands to Ours.

Over 150,000 practitioners trained in more than 122 countries have taken Upledger courses.

Dr. Upledger Honored at A.T. Still University

At the A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Missouri, is the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine and the International Center for Osteopathic His

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John E. Upledger

Dr. John E. Upledger is founder and medical director of The Upledger Institute, Inc.,® based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Dedicated to the natural enhancement of health, the Institute is recognized worldwide for its groundbreaking continuing-education programs, clinical research, and therapeutic services. Throughout his career as an osteopathic physician and surgeon, Dr. Upledger has been recognized as an innovator and leading proponent in the investigation of new therapies. His development of Cranio-Sacral Therapy in particular earned him an international reputation. In 2001 he was featured on CNN and in Time magazine as one of America’s next wave of innovators. Dr. Upledger is a Certified Specialist of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, an Academic Fellow of the British Society of Osteopathy, and a Doctor of Science in alternative medicine. He has also served on the Alternative Medicine Program Advisory Council for the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C.

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John Upledger, renowned Palm Beach Gardens doctor, dies at 80

Dr. John Edwin Upledger, a osteopathic physician and surgeon who treated conjoined twins, Olympic divers and professional athletes from his Palm Beach Gardens office, died Friday. The Detroit native was 80.

Known as craniosacral therapy, Dr. Upledger’s methods drew its share of critics, such as some members of the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Osteopathy.

“My father was viewed as either a genius or a quack. But he had enough results and credentials behind him that it didn’t bother him,” said his son, John, 52, CEO of the Upledger Institute International Inc., which was founded by his father and has been in Oak Park Plaza on Prosperity Farms Road for 25 years.

Dr. Upledger, who played the piano and accordion, originally wanted to be a jazz musician. He decided on a medical career after a stint in the U.S. Coast Guard during the 1950s. In the eye of a hurricane, he performed an appendectomy with instructions from a surgeon on the other end of a ship-to-shore radio. He later graduated from Kir