Richard is a graduate of the Academy of Myotherapy and Physical Fitness and the Academy of Health Sciences (Fort Sam Houston USAR – Physical Therapy Specialist). He earned his CMT through the Life Credit Program at the Colorado School of Healing Arts. He is a Board-Certified member of the National Association of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists and served as president from 1992-94.

Richard has served on the Board of Advisors of the Fibromyalgia Research Foundation, and on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists. He has coauthored a set of wall charts of muscle length tests with C. M. Shifflett and a textbook Myofascial Pain Syndrome: Manual Trigger Point & S-EMG Biofeedback Therapy Methods with Gabriel Sella MD. Richard is the developer of the Fusion Movement System.