George Goodheart

George Joseph Goodheart, Jr. , DC (born August 18, 1918 in Detroit , Michigan , † March 5, 2008 in Grosse Point Farms , Michigan) was an American chiropractor and founded applied kinesiology .

family

Goodheart was married to Catherine Carroll and had three children (Carroll Velie, Elizabeth Goodheart and the late Mark Goodheart) and several grandchildren. After the death of his first wife, he married JoAnn Dutts, with whom he had no further children.

Career

During World War II , Goodheart served in the United States Army Air Forces and was stationed in France and England. He became major at the age of 26 and was awarded the Bronze Star for inventing an electronic bombing system for the Republic P-47 fighter aircraft . Its electronic technology replaced an inaccurate mechanical bomb-dropping method.

Goodheart attended the University of Detroit Mercy and the National College of Chiropractic in Chicago. After graduating in 1939, he practiced with his father, George Goodheart Sr., for more than 30 years in downtown Detroit , the heart of downtown Detroit. He moved to an office in Grosse Pointe , where he made observations about muscle function and health and based on this he founded Applied Kinesiology .

In 1975 the International College of Applied Kinesiology (ICAK) was established to provide instruction on Goodheart's insights and experiences for health professionals. Goodheart was for 32 years chairman of the research committee ( english Research Committee ) of the ICAK.

Official chiropractor for an Olympic team

In 1979, Goodheart accompanied the US Olympic team to Lake Placid , New York, for the 13th Winter Olympic Games . This made him the first official chiropractor for a US Olympic team.

Publications

Goodheart wrote several works on Applied Kinesiology and gave frequent lectures on the subject. He has written numerous magazine articles, especially in chiropractic economics .

Goodheart authored the following books:

• Applied Kinesiology Research Manuals (published yearly from 1964–1998)
• You'll Be Better - The Story of Applied Kinesiology (privately published, made available in spiral bound in 2000)
• Collected Published Articles & Reprints (1969)
• Observation of Sonagraphic Computerized Analysis (1981)
• A New Approach To An Old Problem (1990)
• Collected Published Articles & Reprints (1992)
• Being A Family Doctor (1993)

Honors

• In 1980, he became the first chiropractor to serve on the US Olympic medical team.
• Time named Goodheart in its 2001 list of the Top 100 Alternative Medicine Innovators of the 21st Century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} AK founder Goodheart mourned ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). The Chiropractic Journal . April 2008.
2. ↑ Eric D. Lawrence: George Goodheart: A medical innovator . In: Detroit Free Press , May 7, 2008.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} About George Goodheart . International College of Applied Kinesiology. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Stephen J. Press: History of Sports Chiropractic . Ed .: CIS Commercial Finance Group. New Jersey 2013, ISBN 978-1-105-53683-0 , pp. 125-138 .
5. ^ Gold members . International Academy of Olympic Chiropractic Officers; Retrieved April 4, 2013.
6. ^ ^{A b} Chiropractic at the Winter Olympics . In: Dynamic Chiropracti . tape 24 , no. 5 , February 27, 2006 ( dynamicchiropractic.com ).
7. ^ Tributes to Dr George Goodheart Jr., DC (1918-2008) . International College of Applied Kinesiology. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 4, 2013. 
8. ↑ Janice M. Horowitz: The Man with Magic Fingers . In: Time , April 23, 2001.