Personal History
(Dr. Steve Rupert and his wife, Martha)
Welcome
I am Dr. Rupert and this is my wife, Martha. We have 7 children and 28 grandchildren, and we enjoy life. I was born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and was taught to love God, family and the great outdoors. I went to Michigan Technological University for chemical engineering and pre-med. During my college years, I took a 2 year break and went on a proselyting mission to Hong Kong, teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Chinese people in their native tongue, Cantonese. I was accepted into medical school at Michigan State University in the College of Osteopathic Medicine and graduated in 1985. I completed my residency at Emory University in 1989, studying Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. I completed my board certification in 1990. In 2003, I completed my sub-specialty board certification in Interventional Pain Management which included spinal injections, joint injections, bracing, the use of Platelet Rich Plasma, stem cell, and exosomes.
The reason i chose to become a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) specialist is PM&R doctors focus on functional improvement no matter what your illness. The vision is helping people progress, along the path of recovery. PM&R physicians are required to have a comprehensive background, working with stroke patients, spinal cord patients, amputees, chronic pain patients, nerve entrapment syndromes, orthopedic injuries, sport injuries, neurological injuries, and rheumatological/autoimmune problems. The combination and PM&R along with pain management give us more tools in our tool bag to help relief pain and give hope to the hopeless.
In 2018, I retired and decided to serve a medical mission with my wife Martha for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In 2019. we were called to serve in Tokyo Japan for 18 months. My responsibility was to manage the health care of 1300 misionaries serving in Mongolia, South Korea, Japan, and Guam / Micronesia via telemedicine. My role was to give advice, educate and help missionaries get to the appropriate medical care provided in the countries they served. Even though Japan had excellent medical care. I found many missionaries had chronic diseases like asthma, reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, skin rashes, autoimmune diseases. These chronic diseases found in such a young population caused me to be concerned and pushed me to research and find solutions. In my search, I discovered that the food we were eating was the cause of inflammation and the cause of most all chronic inflammatory diseases and by eliminating specific foods from a person’s diet would reverse most chronic diseases. After 2 months of being on an anti- inflammatory diet my chronic back pain resolved. Wow, i was surprised!
I hope this website will provide some hope by opening your mind to the causes of pain and how we may treat different inflammatory diseases. . This informa is not a treatment plan. Therefore, I advise you to seek and appointment with your health care provider or schedule an appointment with Dr Rupert.