James Brantingham PhD

James W. Brantingham PhD

Dr. Brantingham graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 1977 with a Bachelors in Music as a Classical Guitarist (the first Guitarist to have ever earned a BM in the University's history). He went on to marry his wife Kathy in 1980 and then attend Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCUHS). James earned in 1983 at SCUHS a Bachelors in Biology and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. He then conducted a private practice in Thousand Oaks, California for about 15 years. During this time he gave frequent Classical Guitar concerts and Played Double Bass in the Thousand Oaks Symphony Orchestra. With a podiatrist father, James developed an increased interest in providing foot care as a chiropractor, Dr. Brantingham specialized in managing painful neuromusculoskeletal, or ‘NMS” (joint and muscle) foot pain and disorders in practice. In 1996, he moved his family (Kathy, Jon and Chris) to South Africa where as an ‘Associate Professor’ he taught classes, conducted research and supervised interns in the Department of Chiropractic at Durban University of Technology (DUT) for 4 years. With Dr. Justine Pellow, he completed and published the first randomized controlled trial of adjusting the ankle for chronic ankle pain (post ankle sprain) in the history of medicine (2001). Later James became an ‘Associate Professor’ at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England where he obtained his PhD in Clinical Research. He continued to conduct extremity research at Surrey University until returning to the USA. In 2003 Dr. Brantingham and his family returned to California where he was appointed Director of Research at Cleveland University, Chiropractic College of Los Angeles then known as CCCLA. After 2011 CCCLA merged, fully integrated with, and relocated to Cleveland University, Chiropractic College of Kansas City. Brantingham led the CCCLA research department until 2011 and was prodigious in publishing research in peer-reviewed journals conducting NMS extremity research and teaching about research methodology at CCCLA until 2011. Dr. Brantingham continued to publish research previously completed at CCCLA until 2015. James lives in Thousand Oaks, California with his wife (of 40 years) and next to his two sons Christopher (an Attorney) and Jon (a Musician - with whom he plays jazz bass) and his daughter in-law (Jon’s wife) Cynthia. He is blessed with three grandchildren, Miles, Matthew and one girl Violet! Dr. Brantingham lectured Continuing Medical Education from 2011 until 2015. James published a translation of the Gospel of Philip (2017) and recently “Holy Wisdom and the Logos of God” (which contains commentary on, and the Gospels of Truth, Philip, Thomas, Mary, and the Secret Revelation of John, in 2021.)