30 years. 200,000+ patient visits. One gentle technique.
Dr. John Fitzgerald came to chiropractic through a football injury and to nutrition through his father's cancer diagnosis. He became one of the pioneers of low-force instrument adjusting — and has spent his career proving you don't have to crack a back to fix it.
Dr. John Fitzgerald
I have a Doctor of Chiropractic degree (1994) from Palmer Chiropractic College and a Bachelor of Science degree. I played football in college and got into chiropractic after a football injury — then into clinical nutrition after my father was diagnosed with cancer in 1990.
I'm known as one of the OGs for using pulsed vibrational instruments to perform adjustments. As a student I started instrument adjusting when Dr. Vern Pierce introduced the prototypes at the Palmer Research Center, and I interned with Dr. Pierce and Dr. Burl Pettibon during their research. Most of the chiropractic instruments used today came from our input at that center.
I've been in practice since 1995 and gained a good deal of notoriety from the professional athletes and actors I've helped — though athletes are only a small portion of my patients. I've logged more than 200,000 patient visits and now practice part-time helping people get out of pain.
How he got here
Hurt playing college football — and helped by a chiropractor.
Doctor of Chiropractic, Palmer Chiropractic College.
Interned with Dr. Pierce & Dr. Pettibon; helped pioneer instrument adjusting.
Opened his own practice.
200,000+ patient visits with the same gentle, instrument-based approach.
Dr. John Fitzgerald would wear a lead suit and work on patients in front of a video x-ray machine called Video Fluoroscopy. This is how pulsed vibration adjusting instruments were developed and tested back in the early 1990s.
A few names you might recognize.
Across 200,000+ patient visits, these are just the ones you've heard of — everyone gets the same care.
Books he's written
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