FICS โ€” International Federation of Sports Chiropractic
Rick Ames

FICS Master Instructor โ€ข Australia

Rick Ames

BSc, DC, FACCS, ICSC, MAICE

With over 40 years of experience in chiropractic education, clinical practice, and sports injury management, Rick has become a leading authority in sports chiropractic and extremity rehabilitation. Formerly a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, he continues to share his expertise through postgraduate education, research, and international seminar presentations.

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About Rick

Graduated in 1980 from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, started a full-time practice, and it was during this time his interest in the chiropractic treatment of sports injuries commenced with his work with the local junior American football team.

In 1982, he came to Australia to pursue postgraduate studies, completing a Chiropractic Fellowship in orthopaedics and neurology. He started working with the state and national Olympic weightlifting and table tennis teams based in Melbourne, as well as focusing on the treatment and rehabilitation of amateur and professional athletes in his practice.

He has coordinated the sports chiropractic post-graduate programs for RMIT University and FICS in Australia.

He is actively involved in the presentation of post-graduate seminars on sports chiropractic. He has published numerous articles with a sports chiropractic focus and lectured extensively on the management of extremity conditions, particularly on how to treat patients in everyday practice.

He continues in private clinical practice with an emphasis on patients with chronic extremity conditions. He remains involved in postgraduate study and research focusing on extremity conditions in sports chiropractic.