Dr. Chris Kemper
Biography:
Dr. Chris Kemper launched his Kemper Tailbone Injury Foundation in 2010 where he continues to organize a national data base where physicians addressing the SacroCoccygeal syndrome can easily upload intake and outcomes patient data, needed to expand the body of evidence and to further understand the condition, its short and long term affects as well as its prevention and cure.
The doctor is completing his 4th year as Director of Research and Development for his wife’s company “Kemper Support Surfaces” where they developed their own line of High performance low cost Wheelchair cushions and hospital mattresses. Along with his wife Kristi they are dedicated to reducing pain and suffering by providing all senior Americans, regardless of income, with their pressure relieving products to help reduce skin breakdown a largely preventable condition that plagues millions each year at a cost to Medicare and Medicaid of over 10 billion dollars annually.
Prior to forming the foundation and developing a Support Surface line he began offering continuing education seminars in the “SacroCoccygeal syndrome” and “Multidisciplinary case management”, just before completing his 30 years of practice.
From the early college days, his love of engineering drew him to orthopedic medicine, when, during pre-med studies, his mother was injured in a car accident and was ultimately helped by a doctor of chiropractic who mechanically repositioned her back resulting in a rapid recovery. This was much welcomed news as it was feared by neurologists that she could lose her leg. Impressed with Cartesian Coordinate-based spinal care, he matriculated into the Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1975.
There, he chose an emerging specialty that utilized precision 3D X-Ray and radial-geometric assessment of the head and pelvic center of gravity and postural coordinates. Despite having helped over 10,000 spinal pain cases over his career, early failure with patients suffering with dysfunctional coccyges led him to research and the differential diagnosis necessary to distinguish coccyx-induced dural tension from disc herniation-induced dural compression, bringing his varied and interesting career to the present.
Dr. Kemper lives with his wife Kristi Kemper, R.N. in Southern California where they pursue their respective projects.