About Dr. Bridgham

Dr. Clive Bridgham, BS,BS,MA, DC,DACBSP, ICSSD is the only RI chiropractic physican board certified in sports medicine, by the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians.He has treated patients who have sports related injuries, automobile or personal injuries and work related injuries.  

Dr. Bridgham has been practicing since 1986. He is a past president and active board member of the Chiropractic Society of Rhode Island. He has travelled internationally as a sports medicine chiropractic physician treating athletes at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, two World Games, X-Games, Gravity Games, World Surfing Games, and Pan-AM Windsurfing Championships. He has been a team physician for the US Biathlon, Windsurfing, and Surfing Teams, as well as the Burton Snowboard Team.

He has authored many articles on chiropractic sports medicine as well as being a contributing author of the Extreme Sports Medicine chapter in the recently published sports medicine text Sports Medine Injuries and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Bridgham in the News

Dr. Bridgham recently attended the 2009 World Games in Taiwan, as a sports medicine chiropractic physician who was invited by the Federation Internationale De Chiropratique Du Sport to work with a team of his peers, to be available to treat more than 5000 athletes from 105 countries who competed for medals in the 8^th World Games. Click here to read more.

A listing of events Dr. Bridgham has worked

• World Games Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2009
• World Games Duisberg, Germany 2005
• Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002 
• US Snowboard Open Vermont 2000 
•ESPN Winter X-Games Vermont 2000
• Sintra Portugal Global Organization of  Body Boarding Competitions 1997-2000
• Pan-American Surfing Championships Mar del Plata Argentina 1999
•NBC (National Broadcasting Company) Summer Gravity Games Rhode Island 1999-2001
•Winter Gravity Games 2001 Mammoth Mt. California USA
• European Surfing Championships Sintra Portugal 1999
• US Surfing Federations National Championships 1998 California and Hawaii 1999
•  World Surfing Games California 1996,
   1998 Portugal, 2000 Brazil
•Reef Big Wave Championships Mexico 1999
•Mistral North American Windsurfing Championships Mexico 1998
•USA National Figure Skating Championships 1995
•First Summer Extreme (X) Games 1995
•Alpine World Cup Aspen, Colorado  1992
 •US Biathlon National Championships 1988
 • Plus many local and regional events