Jean-Pierre Meersseman

Jean-Pierre Meersseman is a Belgian chiropractor and sports scientist who has worked mainly in Italy. He graduated in chiropractic in 1971 from the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Iowa and began practicing in Italy in 1972, where he founded the Sanrocco chiropractic center. In the 1980s he directed the Villa Aprica hospital in Como, and in 1990 he founded JPM Chiropractic. He was considered a European pioneer of chiropractic in that decade. In the 1990s he treated the back problems of the owner of the Italian football club Milan, Silvio Berlusconi, and was then hired by the club. In 2002 he and Adriano Galliani founded Milan Lab, the football science center of Milan, and he has been described as something of a miracle worker in Italian football.