Every Athlete Deserves Access to Sport Chiropractic
Sports Chiropractic Foundation
Your support assists this charity in providing scholarships for chiropractic students, volunteer doctors at international sporting events, and sports chiropractic research. Becoming involved means you share the vision that every athlete deserves access to sports chiropractic.
Supporting Sports Chiropractic Initiative and growth on the globally.
Vision: Every Athlete Deserves Access to Sport Chiropractic
For more than 30 years, volunteers from across the globe have worked tirelessly to bring this vision to life, and we have seen consistent growth in the utilization of Doctor of Chiropractic on the fields and courts of sporting venues across the world.
Today it is more important than ever to make the naturally focused approach of sports chiropractors available and accessible to athletes with injuries and all those who wish to improve their performance. Your generous contribution will help us further this vision by supporting student scholarships, volunteer doctors at international games, and furthering sports chiropractic research on a global scale. Thank you!
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Charity Objectives
Furthering the vision that "Every Athlete Deserves Access to Sports Chiropractic".
This Foundation supports student scholarships, volunteers at international sporting events, and sports chiropractic research. The Foundation trustees may determine a donation to other sports chiropractic initiatives which directly support the vision of the charity.
Your donation will be allocated towards the following causes:
Student Scholarships
Student Scholarships:
We believe that investment in today’s graduating students is an investment in the future of sports chiropractic, and for this reason, The Foundation provides a range of support services to students to assist them in their final year of study.
The objective of these funds will be to facilitate a range of scholarships for chiropractic students to undertake continual education, training and mentoring programs that improve their ability to lead and work with athletes.
Working closely with the Foundation's global partnering universities, which have chiropractic programs recognised by the Councils on Chiropractic Education International (CCEI), the charity's mission is to make scholarships available to all chiropractic students. These include financial assistance for tuition fees, postgraduate education, specialised mentoring services, and working experience within sports chiropractic.
Olympic Scholarships:
In the spirit of the Olympic Movement and partnership with ten Educational Institutions, the Olympic Scholarship Program provides educational support for Olympians worldwide who are academically qualified and interested in pursuing a career in Chiropractic. In partnership with selected Universities with a chiropractic program, this scholarship provides full or half academic scholarships to successful Olympians.
The 2021 student scholarship recipients talk about their journey as they make the transition from College into full-time clinic.
Dr Johnston talks about the opportunities for students and the mentoring program that the Foundation supports to ensure the growth and support for our students of today.
Access to Sports Chiropractic Care at International Events
In line with our vision of making sports chiropractic available and accessible to every athlete, the objectives of these funds will be to support certain expenses incurred by sports chiropractic volunteers at a games event. As determined by the Charity and review of the volunteer's application, financial contributions of under £ 1,000 may be provided per volunteer attending international events with a sports chiropractic delegation.
This will be a one-off payment to support the volunteer's out-of-pocket expenses, where they will be providing their services to athletes as a volunteer for an event. Payments are not used for any loss of practice time incurred by the volunteer, time spent at the games, or other services they may offer. All volunteers selected and attending international games events do so with no monetary payment for their time. This is an investment in support of the International Federations, the athletes, coaches and officials to access sports chiropractic care.
Contributions will only be made once the volunteer has worked at the event. Special consideration for contribution to be provided before an event will be considered. The decision to award funds before service at games will be at the discretion of the charity trustee.
Over the eleven days of the Commonwealth Games, twenty one chiropractors, the majority FICS members, worked over multiple sites in Birmingham. This was the first time that chiropractors had been part of the Commonwealth Games family and the majority were based at the Game’s polyclinics as part of the COPS Team (Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Physiotherapists and Sports massage).
As well as working in the polyclinics there were chiropractors working pitchside in a primary triage role with the field of play teams, chiropractors working as sonographers and the British Virgin Islands support team included a chiropractor looking after BVI athletes across multiple sports. The Games were a huge success and the profession was well represented – we are looking forward to Victoria 2026!
The experience of volunteering at international games and events isn’t just about watching the Games, mingling with the athletes or thriving on the positive vibes that the event exudes from every pore.
Taking part is as much about cultural-exchange and helping athletes perform naturally, as it is about the event.
Sports Chiropractic Research
The objective of these funds is to encourage and support researchers with novel ideas with seed funding that targets the research goals of sports chiropractic. These funds will facilitate support for small research grants/projects, which will contribute to the short, medium and long term goals of establishing a robust evidence base for sports chiropractic internationally.
An application that outlines the proposed targeted use of the funds will be required before any funding is allocated. Successful applicants will be required to provide an itemised and justified report on how those funds have been expended and how they have addressed the targeted research priorities.
– A report to the charity on the use and outcomes of their funding will be required periodically.
– Additionally, the recipient of the funds will be required to fulfil any publication requirements as set by the Foundation research guidelines.
Fostering and developing research. These funds will achieve this by promoting evidence-based research to describe the role of sports chiropractic in athlete care.