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Tadashi Matsuhisa M.D., D.C.

I graduated from Keio University Medical School, the highest ranked medical school in Japan, in 1992 and had been practicing as a certified orthopedic surgeon for ten years.

During the period of being an orthopedic surgeon, I realized that how much a medical treatment has failed to help suffering people. Something is wrong in a medical concept. Then I decided to come to the US in 2000 to learn chiropractic. I spent 4 years at chiropractic colleges and learned a different principle to save people. I dedicated myself very much to meet the best chiropractors in the US and attended the chiropractic seminars the most among the students. I graduated from the chiropractic college, Palmer college of chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, and received a highest academic award. My mission is to change a health care world in a better way. I am very confident at what I do for people. My job is to give a hope to people who lost or are losing their hope. I am practicing the highest quality of chiropractic, which is Gonstead chiropractic. The Gonstead chiropractic helped us to have a baby, improving our body functions.

Date of birth : September 4, 1966
Place of birth : Kuwana city, Mie prefrecture, Japan

Medical Doctor (M.D.)
Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon (Japanese Orthopaedic Association)
Certified Sports Doctor (Japanese Medical Association)
Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.)


Positions:
• Member, Japanese Orthopaedic Surgeon Association
• Member, Japan Medical Assocoation
• Executive member at Palmer Gonstead Club
• Chairman, International Japanese Doctors of Chiropractic (IJDC)
• Chairman, Gonstead Chiropractic of Japan (GCJ)
• Editorial member of Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR)
• Research & Clinical Science (RCS), International Scientific Advisory Panel Member

Clinical History:
• 1992 Graduation from Keio university Medical school (Tokyo)
Join Mie university Medical school Orthopaedic surgery department
• 1992 Residence at Mie university hospital, orthopaedic surgery department
• Residence at Suzuka Kaisei general hospital, orthopaedic surgery department
• 1993 Residence at Matsusaka city general hospital, orthopaedic surgery department
• 1995 Reseach at Mie university medical school, pathology department (Tumor depressant gene p53)
Staff at Mie university hospital orthopaedic surgery department
• 1996 Staff at Mie prefectual Shima general hospital, orthopaedic surgery department
• 1998 Staff of spinal surgery at Hakujin-kai Murase hospital, orthopaedic surgery department
• 1999 Study joint replacement surgery at Harvard Medical Center related Hospital in Boston and Rose Medical Center in Denver
• 2000 Attend Conference of  American Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in Orlando, Florida
• 2000(Sept.) Admission at SCUHS-LACC
• 2002(Nov.) Transferred to Palmer Chiropractic College
• 2004 (Nov.) Preceptorship in Phoenix, Arizona (Dr. Jose Lara, Gonstead chiropractic clinic)
• 2005 (Feb) Graduation from Palmer College of Chiropractic
• 2005 Chiropractic Practice (Associate Doctor) in Phoenix, Arizona (Dr. Jose Lara, Gonstead chiropractic clinic)

Certification and Licence:
• 1991 Degree, License of Medical Doctor
• 1998 Certification of Orthopaedic surgeon by Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA)
• Certification of Sports medical doctor by Japan Medical Association
• 2003 Certification of Gonstead executive member (Palmer college, Gonstead club)
• 2005 Degree of Doctor of Chiropractic
• 2005 Arizona State Chiropractic Licence

Awards:
• 2005 Summa Cum Laude, Palmer College of Chiropractic
• 2005 Presidential Scholar, Palmer College of Chiropractic
• 2005 Pi Tau Delta Award

Teaching Experience:
• 2000 Assistance of teaching of a chiropractic concept at University of California, Irvine (UCI), medical school
2000 Translation for Japanese chiropractic students in Orthopaedic class at LACC
• 2000 Presentation about my experience as an orthopaedic surgeon at RMIT university, chiropractic school in Japan.
• 2002 Translation for Japanese chiropractic students in Anatomy class at university of New Mexico.
• 2003 Translation for Japanese chiropractic students in Anatomy class at university of New Mexico.
• 2003-2004 Teach Gonstead chiropractic technique at Palmer College of Chiropractic
2004 Exhibition of Gonstead chiropractic technique for medical people at the 103th Central Japan Association of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology in Kobe in Nov. 2004 (Invited)
• 2004 Translation for Japanese chiropractic students in Radiology class at Murdoch university in Perth, Australia
• 2005 1st Gonstead Seminar of Chiropractic Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
• 2006 2nd Gonstead Seminar of chiropractic Japan (Tokyo Japan)
• 2006 1st Gonstead Samurai Seminar Japan (Tokyo Japan)

Volunteer Experience:
• 2002 Chiropractic Care for the poor people in Mexico
• 2004 Chiropractic Care in El Salvador (5 days)

Presentations at Medical Meetings or Conferences:
• “A case study of flexor digitorum tendons’ rupture following a colles fracture” presented at Tokai orthopaedic surgeon’s conference in Nagoya, 1991
• “A case study of a Jumper’s knee resulted in a patellar tendon rupture” presented at Tokai injury study association’s conference in Nagoya, 1996
• “The outcome of ankle ATFL injuries treated by surgical repair” presented at Middle Japanese Orthopaedic Surgeon Association’s conference in Osaka in 1998
• “The outcome of surgeries for lumbar canal stenosis” presented at Japanese Orthopaedic Surgeon Association’s conference in Kobe in 1999
• “The Power of Chiropractic (Gonstead Chiropractic)” The educational lecture for medical people at the 103th Central Japan Association of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology in Kobe in Nov. 2004 (Invited)

Publications (Journals or Magazines):
• “The outcome of ankle ATFL injuries treated by surgical repair” Middle Japanese Orthopaedic Surgeon Association Journal, 1998
• “Ideal direction for orthopaedic surgeons in 21th century” monthly magazine, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, May 2000
• “The outcome of surgeries for lumbar canal stenosis” Japanese Orthopaedic Surgeon Association Journal, 1999
• “Chiropractic in The United States” Journal Ido-no-Nihon, March 2002- present
• “Q and A Chiropractic” Journal Ido-no-Nihon, No10 chiropractic special edition
• “Gonstead Chiropractic” Journal Manipulation, August 2003
• “My mission is to change current health care system through real chiropractic” Beacon at Palmer College, June-July 2004
• “Chiropractic in the USA” Journal Bone,Joint and Ligament, In the process of publication
• “The Chiropractic for Your Dream & Hope” Monthly Japanese Newspaper in Arizona, January 2005 - present

Translation:
“In the footsteps of doctor”G”” by John Cox DC (Gonstead new textbook)