The Early Years
Dr. Brantingham graduated from California State University in Long Beach in 1977 with a Bachelors of Music degree (a ‘BM’ – the first such degree in the history of CSULB) as a Classical Guitarist. He would play Classical Guitar in many concerts in Thousand Oaks until 1995. And, he played Double Bass in the Thousand Oaks Symphony Orchestra for many years. James also graduated from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (now, Southern California University of Health Sciences) in 1983 with a BS in Biology and a Doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine. Dr. Brantingham was in private practice in Thousand Oaks, California for about 15 years. With a podiatrist father, he naturally developed an increased interest in providing manual therapy of the foot for foot and ankle disorders (and would do and publish some of the first research in this area ever done in the History of Medicine). Manual or Chiropractic care of the lower extremity was a significant aspect of his private practice (along with care of the low back, spinal and upper extremity musculoskeletal joint disorders and pain in his Thousand Oaks practice.
Africa
In 1996, he moved his family (Kathy, Jon and Chris) to South Africa and took a full time position in the Department of Chiropractic at Durban University of Technology (DUT) for 4 years. It was in South Africa and at DUT that his interest in research began and where he began, with DUT’s Master’s degree program to do research – particularly of the ankle and foot, and later the knee and upper extremities.
England
In 2000, Dr. Brantingham moved his family to the United Kingdom, taking a similar position as a Senior Lecturer (‘Associate Professor’) in the Chiropractic Program at the University of Surrey (UniS) in Guildford, England for 3 years. He continued doing research, expanding into the full lower extremity, including the hip and later, into upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders, finally and also earning his PhD in Clinical Research from, the University of Surrey, in Guildford, England.
Back Home in California
He moved back to Thousand Oaks, California USA in late 2003 and eventually was hired at Cleveland University, Chiropractic College in Los Angeles (formerly CCCLA) where (with his PhD in Clinical Research) he was promoted and became the: Head of the Department of Research. At CCCLA he continued extremity research (and completed a number of projects begun or conceived at CCCLA and finally all completed and published in peer-reviewed journals by 2015). After doing and publishing research on the extremities for many years Dr. Brantingham is excited to bring many breakthrough insights and protocols derived from this and other research he helped to design, develop and/or co-authored to, the medical profession.
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