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When I travelled to Cali, Colombia in late August with FICS doctors from 15 countries this was the third time I had been with a FICS team for the World Games.
On one hand working a World Games involves commitment and cost. It rep-
resents two weeks of volunteer work and, although expenses at the games are covered, team members cover their cost of international travel.
On the other hand it offers the opportunity to serve ath-letes and our profession at the highest level, and to do this with colleagues in a way that is exciting and builds lifelong friendships.
As you will see from the report in this FICS News, FICS par-ticipation at the Cali World Games was outstanding in every way. One of the most prominent stories at the World Games website is titled FICS Healing Hands and has IWGA Presi-dent Ron Froehlich thanking FICS doctors for their greatly valued services.
As FICS President, and on your behalf, there are people we must acknowledge and thank. First, thank you to Dr Brian Nook and Dr Tim Ray, the FICS Chefs de Mission. They did all the extensive pre-games work, from site visits to team se-lection and preparation, and then led us so well at the Games. Thank you to all the team members, including our two host Colombian sports chiropractors Dr Gabriel Quintero and Dr Matais Hassan. You were expert, disciplined, and great am-bassadors for our profession.
Next a huge thank you to sponsors – Bob and Arlene Narson of Narson Tables (www.narsontablecompany.com) who pro-vided 25 excellent discounted portable tables, and Max Ka-narsky of MultiRadiance (www.multiradiance.com) which
Contents
Anyone for tennis - Bruyere interview 14
Sec-General’s Update 7Around the World 18Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey, USA
World Games Report 1, 9-13Student Scholarships 4ExCo and Commissions 5Future Events 6
FEDERATION INTERNATIONALEDE CHIROPRATIQUE DU SPORT
fiCs NewsseptemBer 30 2013
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President’s MessageSheila Wilson, DC, ICSSD
World Games ReportFICS Healing Hands
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The 2013 World Games, with 4,500 participants from 101 countries, were held in Cali, Colombia from July 25 – Au-gust 4. The people of Cali ensured success as they filled the main stadium and venues and gave their enthusiastic support to the Games, which are held under the banner of the Olym-pic Movement but feature 36 sports not yet admitted to the Olympic Games. (See these listed in Table 1, page 9).
A FICS team of 35 sports chiropractors from 15 countries:
• Was available to all athletes at the venues, proved much needed and popular, and provided approximately 1,500 treatments to athletes and 2,000 treatments in total – ex-act numbers will appear in a thorough final report being prepared.
• Was more fully integrated with other medical services than at past World Games. For example FICS Chefs de Mission Dr Brian Nook and Dr Tim Ray were invited to Medical Commission meetings each morning, reporting on treatments given and participating in overall coordi-nation and administration of services.
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provided the quality team track suits that gave us the stamp of a truly professional team.
Finally a special note of thanks to Dr Deb Nook and her team of chiropractic students from Murdoch University, Perth, Australia who collected the data on chiropractic services pro-vided for the formal post games report now being prepared and assisted in so many other ways.
In my last President’s Message, which you can find in the June FICS News at the website, I explained why the FICS ICSSD qualification was now being re-named the ICCSP and welcomed Dr René Fejer as the new Co-Chair of the FICS Education Commission with Dr Rikke Udby Craven. René and Rikke are hard at work – thank you – because much is happening in the ICCSP program at present including:
• As I write 81 registrants are attending a sold out lower extremity module in Queenstown, New Zealand from September 13–15
• Registrations are being received for the CCSP to ICCSP Conversion Seminar in New Jersey September 27-29, and for an October 25-27 upper extremities module in Lausanne, Switzerland.
• There are advanced negotiations and plans for ICCSP qualifications for chiropractors in Brazil (site of the 2016
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Olympics), France, and Japan (site of the 2020 Olym-pics) who cannot complete the regular online program in English because of language difficulties.
Our concern at this time, arising from our success at major games events and SportAccord in recent years, is having a sufficient pool of qualified doctors with an ICCSP to fulfill commitments at future events. If you have been thinking of acquiring an ICCSP please act now. If you already hold an-other qualification - e.g. CCSP, DACBSP, FCCSS Canada, IFEC sports qualification in France and other masters degree - there is little further study and cost.
If you have no post-graduate sports chiropractic qualification you can enroll in the online course or, if you want to test the quality and value first, start by registering for just one week-end hands-on module.
You can take it from me or anyone just back from the FICS team in Cali, Colombia. Serving with fellow ICCSPs on a FICS team like this will provide some of the greatest mo-ments of your career.
IWGA President Ron Froehlich and FICS President Dr Sheila Wilson (center) with other members of the FICS team.
When did you last visit www.fics-sport.org?Go there now for:
◊ Membership information and applications◊ ICSSD seminars and other meetings◊ Sponsorship benefits and opportunities◊ This and past issues of the FICS News◊ FICS statutes, history, and much more
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In this issue we bring you the FICS re-port on the great success of the World Games in Colombia in August – Sep-tember. See if you can find the picture of Drs Wilson and Santiago with IOC President Dr Jacques Rogge.
The selection of sports pictures shows what exciting and en-tertaining sports there are at the World Games – from dance sport to sumo wrestling to perhaps the most impressive of all, gymnastic acrobatics. Thank you to the FICS team members and staff who helped put this report together.
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I believe the interview with Wimbledon champion Andy Mur-ray’s chiropractor Dr Jean-Pierre Bruyere, originally from France and based in the UK, is one of the most interesting the FICS News has published. Thank you to FICS Counsel David Chapman-Smith for conducting this interview for the FICS News. This was in Henley on Thames, home of the world’s most famous rowing club and regattas.
There is much other news from FICS and around the world. Is your country featured? Do you have sports chiropractic news? Please send news items for the next FICS News. These should go to Christina Davis at [email protected] by December 15 – but why not do it now?
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FLA-0401-11FICS.indd 1 3/10/11 11:57 AMFounded in 1935, Logan College of Chiropractic/University Programs is located in Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Logan is pleased to offer the advantage of low tuition combined with world renowned faculty and a state-of-the-art educational and learning environment.
The Higher Learning Commission of North Central has approved two Master of Science degrees: Sports Science and Rehabilitation and Logan’s new Nutrition and Human Performance. These two graduate degrees complement not only the practice of chiropractic, but the Doctor of Chiropractic program as well, offering students the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary clinical settings with professional, collegiate and high school sports teams, hospital dietary programs and rehabilitation centers.
In addition, the state-of-the-art BIOFREEZE ® Sports and Rehabilitation Centers conveniently located both on the Logan campus and in our new satellite clinic, (Southfield) in South St. Louis County, are specifically designed to treat athletic injuries. Dr. Laney Nelson internationally known sports chiropractor, continues to direct Logan interns in all aspects of rehabilitation and human performance.
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Notice of 2013 FICS Student Scholarships
FICS, the international organization representing the specialty of sports chiropractic, is pleased to announce four US$1,000 sponsorships for chiropractic students generously donated by Foot Levelers (www.footlevelers.com), Life University (www.life.edu), Logan College of Chiropractic (www.logan.edu), and Standard Process (www.standardprocess.com). These scholarships are open to chiropractic students worldwide, except the one sponsored by Logan College which is open to Logan students only.
Requirements.
Enrolled fulltime at an accredited/recognized chiropractic school, graduating in or after 2013.
1. Submission of:
(a) 500-750 word essay concerning the importance of sports chiropractic services to athletes in training and competition, and to the future growth of the chiropractic profession.
(b) A description of personal participation in fitness and sports activities (100-200 words).
(c) A description of contributions to sports chiropractic at the college and/or otherwise – e.g. participation in the students sports chiropractic council activities; volunteer services at the college at sporting events and otherwise; published news articles or research; any other activities promoting sports chiropractic (100-200 words).
(d) Letter from faculty member teaching sports chiropractic and/or related subjects confirming good character and academic standard and recommending award.
Deadline for Applications. October 31, 2013. Successful applicants notified by November 30, 2013.
Winners in 2010: Jo Adriaenssen, Institut Franco-Européen de Chiropratique (IFEC), France. Nicholas Curry, Logan College of Chiropractic, USA. Raluca Duma – University of Bridgeport, College of Chiropractic, USA. Catherine Hughes – Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, UK.
Winners in 2011: Reyhaneh Baha, Southern California University of Health Sciences, USA. Beau Baird, Logan College, USA. Derek Page, Macquarie University, Australia. Sharon Sackey, Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, UK.
Winners in 2012: Kelsey Dobesh, Logan College of Chiropractic, USA. Casey Eisenbach, Southern California University of Health Sciences, USA. Kristian Frantzen, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Canada. Andrew Hunt, National University of Health Sciences, USA. Kayleigh Knudson, Palmer College of Chiropractic West, USA.
How to Apply? Use the Application Form available at Education/Student Scholarships at www.fics-sport.org and return it to Christina Davis, FICS Executive Secretary at [email protected] or at fax: 1 416 484-9665.
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fiCs exeCutive CounCil - 2013
Dale RichardsonAustralia
Member at large
Gaery BarberyAustralia
Sheila WilsonUSA
North America
Communications Commission (CoCOM)Philippe Roulet, Chair – SwitzerlandMustafa Agaoglu, ExCo – TurkeyGaery Barbery, ExCo – AustraliaYolanda Camacho Kortman – Costa RicaMartin Camara – PhilippinesPhilippe Fleuriau – FranceAnnette Joergensen – DenmarkSaul Luengas – MexicoJulie Scarano – USAEducation Commission (CoEDU)Rikke Craven, Co-Chair – DenmarkRene Fejer, Co-Chair – Denmark
president viCe president
Charmaine Korporaal
South Africa
seCretAry
Glen HarrisCanada
North America
harris2004@ rogers.com
IndySportsDoc@ iquest.net
Carla HowUnited Kingdom
Europe
carlahow@scotia chiropractic.co.uk
Marcelo BotelhoBrazil
Latin America
Chief of finAnCes
quiropraxia@ hotmail.com
Ståle HaugeNorwayEurope
Philip T. SantiagoUSA
Secretary-General
John DownesUSA
Member at large
Philippe RouletSwitzerland
Member at large
progolf_drdale@ life.edu
Mustafa AgaogluTurkeyEastern
Mediterraneanspearo35@ yahoo.com
Bradley SandlerSouth Africa
Africa
drbsandler@ gmail.com
Kazutoshi IsaJapanAsia
Peter GarbuttAustraliaPacific
healthcare@ enhance.com.au
Ana Paula Facchinato – BrazilScott Howitt – CanadaKazutoshi Isa – JapanArnaud Lardon – FranceBrian Nook, ExCo – AustraliaHenry Pollard – AustraliaRichard Skippings – Great BritainTim Stark, Past-Chair – AustraliaEthics Commission (CoETH)Carla How, Co-Chair, ExCo – United KingdomSusan Bromley, Co-Chair – USARoland Noirat – SwitzerlandTodd Reiter – USADale Richardson – AustraliaFinance Commission (CoFIN)Peter Garbutt, Chair, ExCo – AustraliaMarcelo Botelho, ExCo – BrazilHowie Fidler – USAJay Greenstein – USAGames Commission (CoGAM)Tim Ray Chair – USAMarcelo Botelho, ExCo – BrazilTom Greenway – United KingdomKazutoshi Isa – JapanCharmaine Korporaal, ExCo – South Africa
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FICS Headquarters:MSI Maison du Sport InternationalAvenue de Rhodanie 54CH – 1007 Lausanne VD Switzerland
Administrative Office:c/o World Federation of Chiropractic1246 Yonge Street, Suite 203Toronto, ON M4T 1W5 CanadaTel: 1 416 484 9091 Fax: 1 416 484 9665Christina Davis – Executive [email protected]
AdministrAtion
Philip SantiagoSecretary General
Christina DavisExecutive Secretary
Khalid SalimAdministrator Coordinator
David Chapman-SmithGeneral Counsel
Gregory Oke – New ZealandGeorge Oxinos – CyprusAngela Salcedo – USAGreg Uchacz – CanadaSheila Wilson, ExCo – USAInternational Federations Commission (CoIF)Brian Nook, Chair – AustraliaSimon Lawson – South AfricaDale Richardson – AustraliaAngela Salcedo – USASheila Wilson, ExCo – USAResearch Commission (CoRES)Stephen Perle, Chair – USAAngelo Battiston – United KingdomGuy Gosselin – EnglandJay Greenstein – USA
Charmaine Korporaal, ExCo – South AfricaHenry Pollard – AustraliaAlexander Ruhe – GermanyWorld Olympians Scholarship Program Commission (CoWOSP)Angela Salcedo, Chair – USAMartin Camara – PhilippinesGregory Doerr – USAJay Greenstein – USATom Hyde – USAKevin Jardine – CanadaStephen Press – USATodd Reiter – USADale Richarsdon, ExCo – AustraliaGreg Uchacz – Canada
future events
ICCSP Hands-On Module – Students Only(Lower Extremity)October 28-30, 2013
Anglo-European College of ChiropracticBournemouth, UK
ICCSP Hands-on Module (Upper Extremity)October 25-27, 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland
ICCSP Hands-on Module (Upper Extremity)
TBA July, 2014Port Douglas, Australia
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CoEDU – New Members and Major DevelopmentsIn the last issue I introduced you to new FICS Education Commission Co-Chairs Drs Rene Fejer and Rikke Udby Craven from Denmark. Join me in wel-
coming these new members to their re-organized CoEDU:
• Ana Paula Facchinato of Brazil, Director of the School of Chiro-practic at the University Anhembi Morumbi in Sao Paulo, and assist-ing with the new ICCSP program in Brazil
• Kazutoshi Isa of Japan, FICS ExCo rep for Asia, and assisting with the new ICCSP program in Japan
• Henry Pollard of Australia, prom-inent sports chiropractic clinical re-searcher and lecturer, well known to FICS members from speaking at ICCSP modules, including the one just completed in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Rene and Rikke, their CoEDU and the FICS staff Christina Davis and Khalid Salim are hard at work standardizing procedures, building new models of delivery for countries where language barriers mean students cannot use the online learning program, and schedul-ing new hands-on modules. They de-serve huge thanks.
Thank you also to those serving as local organizers for ICCSP events, currently including:
• New Jersey Advanced Standing Program – September. Tim Stark.
• Lausanne, Switzerland, Upper Extremity Module – October. Philippe Roulet.
• AECC Bournemouth, UK Program – October. Guy-Antoine Klooster and Angelo Battiston.
• Mexico City, Mexico Program – January 2014 Moises Hernandez and Jorge Segall Bessudo
• Port Douglas, Australia Upper and Lower Extremities – July 2014. Peter Garbutt.
For all members of the CoEDU – and other FICS Commis-sions see pages 5 and 6.
updAte from the seCretAry-generAlBy philip sAntiAgo
CoIFS – Simon Lawson is New MemberOn behalf of Dr Brian Nook, Chair, FICS International Federations Commission and FICS President Dr Sheila Wilson I am pleased to announce that Dr Simon Lawson, President of the Chiropractic Association of South Africa and one of the FICS team members for the Cali World Games, has joined the CoIFS.
Other members of this key FICS commission are Drs Dale Richardson of Australia and Angela Salcedo of the USA.
Ana Paula Facchinato
Kazutoshi Isa
Henry Pollard
Simon Lawson
To plan the new Mexico ICCSP program Drs Wilson and Santiago meet with members of the Mexican Federation of Sports Chiroprac-tors (FMQD) – from left Dra Maria Mercedes D’Acosta Montaño, Dr Jorge Segall Bessudo and Dra Mónica Tirado.
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FICS Student Scholarships – October 31 DeadlineStudents – who will be winners of this year’s 4 FICS schol-arships worth US$1,000 each? Deadline for applications – application form at www.fics-sport.org – is October 31.
ACASC Hyde Student Poster AwardsAt the American Chiropractic Association Sports Council Annu-al Symposium this month, winner of the 4th Annual Hyde Poster Contest for Students was Michelle Francavilla of Palmer West for a poster titled Disc Herniation in Navy Football Players.This contest is to promote research and study by students in the field of sports chiropractic and is named in honor of ACA Sports Council Hall of Fame member Dr. Tom Hyde. It is ad-ministered by Dr. Russ Ebbets of the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic. This year there were 12 poster pres-entations from 8 different colleges and winning entries were:
1. Michelle Francavilla, Palmer West Disc Herniation in Navy Football Players
2. Amin Javid, University of Bridgeport The Art of Injury - Closed Kinetic Chain
3. Ben Ramos, University of Western States Elbow Injuries in MMA
4. Mike Nelson, Palmer College, Florida Hamstring Rehabilitation Strategies
5. Marigot Vreeland, University of Bridgeport Phantom Limb Syndrome
Future Champions – Melissa HoarUnder the FICS World Olympians Scholarship Program, led by Dr. Angela Salcedo Chair, WOSP Commission, the Aus-tralian winter Olympian and skeleton athlete Melissa Hoar is currently a scholarship student at Palmer College West Campus in San Jose, California – continuing Palmer West’s outstanding history of producing great sports chiropractors.
Melissa, who will be representing Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, is featured in this Future Cham-pions advertisement currently being used by the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (www.f4cp.org) in major American media including USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.
Congratulations, Melissa. FICS members throughout the world are proud of you and we will be cheering you on when you compete in Russia.
Learn more about chiropractic care and what you can do to raise awareness at: www.yes2chiropractic.com.
CHAMPIONS OFCHIROPRACTIC
FUTURE
As an Olympic athlete, I need my body to function at a world-class level. Chiropractic care allows for optimal performance while training and competing. I was so inspired by my chiropractic experiences that I enrolled in one of the 18 chiropractic colleges in the United States. I am currently two-thirds of the way through the seven years required to become a doctor of chiropractic, and looking forward to becoming a provider of hands-on healthcare.
MELISSA HOARSkeleton Racer
Dr. Steven Capobianco
MELISSA’S CHIROPRACTOR
www.chirocolleges.org
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• Received enthusiastic praise from athletes, coaches, vol-unteers and the International World Games Association (IWGA) and Cali Local Organizing Committee (CLOC) leaders. Go to the IWGA website www.worldgames.org to see that one of the main featured stories is titled FICS Healing Hands and has IWGA President Ron Froehlich pictured with members of the FICS team and praising them for their excellent services in injury prevention and healing.
Here is an incident reported by Dr Hamid Sadri to the rest of the FICS team as he left Cali on Sunday, August 4:
I want to share with you what I was told by a coach last night, after 4 of his athletes, all of whom had been treated by US had won gold in their events.
He had been approached by a representative from the World Games who was conducting a survey about the various elements the coach and his ath-letes had experienced; from transport, food, and lodging, to everything else that we have all had to deal with. The last question she asked him was:
What was “the best” thing you experienced about these games here in Cali?
He replied “medical services”; at which the surveyor was a bit surprised and replied “medical services?” The coach responded “yes, medical services” and pointed to the FICS pin that she was wearing, and said: “THOSE medical services were absolutely the best part of these games!”
I for one feel that it was an honor to be able to rub shoulders with some of the best DCs in the world. We did a good thing here for athletes, the games, ourselves and our profession; and I am proud to have been a part of that. YOU made this possible.
One of the team member responses to Dr Sadri came from Dr Ed Feinberg of Palmer College, West Campus in San Jose, California:
Hamid’s words express so eloquently how I feel and how I think most of us feel about this World
Games experience… As we return to our normal lives, I hope we can all hold on to the camaraderie that we’ve developed during our work, our strug-gles, and our many successes at these Games. We re-ally have changed the understanding of chiropractic in South America. I think the FICS objectives were accomplished at these games and we should all be proud that our volunteer efforts have likely moved our profession in a positive direction in real and measurable ways.
Dr Feinberg’s comments reflect what had been said at the end of the Games by Dr Gabriel Quintero, one of only five
TABLE 1 - World Games Sports
Artistic and Dance SportsDanceSport, Roller Skating Artistic, Gymnastics Tram-poline, Gymnastics Rhythmic, Gymnastics Aerobics, Gymnastics Acrobatics
Ball Sports
Beach Handball, Fistball, Rugby Sevens, Canoe Polo, Korfball, Softball, Racquetball, Squash
Martial Arts
Ju-Jitsu, Sumo, Karate, Wushu
Precision Sports
Bowling, Archery, Billiard Sports, Boule Sports
Strength Sports
Tug of War, Powerlifting
Trend Sports
Roller Skating Speed, Air Sports, Duathlon, Roller Sports Road, Life Saving, Roller Inline Hockey, Water Ski, Finswimming, Flying Disc, Climbing, Canoe Mar-athon, Orienteering
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CAli world gAmes – fiCs teAm
Chefs de Mission• Brian Nook – Australia
• Tim Ray - USA
Other Team Members• David Lourie – Australia
• Jon Tan – Australia
• Marcelo Botelho – Brazil
• Aaron Nardella - Canada
• Matais Hassan - Colombia
• Gabriel Quintero - Colombia
• Lotte Langhoff – Denmark
• Francesco Fumarola – Italy
• Kazutoshi Isa – Japan
• Greg Duddy – South Africa
• Simon Lawson – South Africa
• Bradley Sandler – South Africa
• Niklas Founger – Sweden
• Henrik Hojgaard – Sweden
• Hung Chung Huang – Taiwan
• Thomas Jeppesen – UK
• Rainer Weiser – UK
• William Bonsall – USA
• David Dewar – USA
• Edward Feinberg – USA
• Scott Gillman – USA
• Hamid Sadri – USA
• Phil Santiago – USA
• Keith Schaller – USA
• Ira Shapiro – USA
• Tim Stark – USA
• Sheila Wilson – USA
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Data Collection and Research Team
Leader: Debra Nook DVM, MBA
Murdoch Students:• Laura Maurice, Australia
• Inga Gossow, Germany
• Rune Finne, Norway
• Anders Liveroed, Norway
• Martin Isaksson, Sweden
(Back row from left) Anders Liveroed, Rune Finne, Dr Deb Nook, Martin Isaksson, (front) Inga Gossow and Laura Maurice
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chiropractors in Colombia and a member of the FICS team: “Television and other media stories about chiropractic be-cause of the World Games have given the profession more exposure and advancement than ever before”.
After the Games many sports administrators present wrote thank you emails to FICS, and some immediately asked for FICS teams at future regional and world championships. Tony Tilenni of Australia, Treasurer for the World DanceS-port Federation, thanked the FICS team “for your wonder-ful work in Cali” and asked for services at the WDSF World Championships in Taiwan this month. These, quickly ar-ranged, were provided by Dr Jackie Huang of Taiwan and Dr Kaz Isa of Japan, both of whom were on the World Games team.
Leaders from the International Racquetball Federation (IRF) and International Water Ski and Wakeboard Federa-tion (IWWF) wrote concerning chiropractic services of fu-ture games. Early in the World Games Dr Brian Nook had responded to an email enquiry from the IWWF and explained that over 100 treatments had already been given to water-ski-ers and that, as at the previous World Games, these athletes were welcoming and using chiropractic services as much as any other.
Thanks are due to:
• All members of the FICS team for volunteering their time and expert services and funds at achieving such a final result. This was despite a number of significant lo-gistical difficulties faced by everyone in the early days of the Games. Particular thanks to Dr Tim Ray, Dr David
Lourie and Dr Simon Lawson for their fantastic support in this area.
• Chefs de Mission Dr Brian Nook and Dr Tim Ray for all their preparatory work for the Games, and their leader-ship at them.
• Dr Debra Nook and students from the School of Chi-ropractic, Murdoch University, Australia for their vital gathering of statistics and the report on chiropractic ser-vices that is now being prepared. This report, as with the 2009 World Games Report, will be published and of central importance to future developments of chiroprac-tic services at major games events.
• MultiRadiance Medical Lasers and its President, Max Kanarsky for generous sponsorship of the tracksuits that kept the FICS team looking so professional.
• Bob and Arlene Narson and Narson Tables for sponsor-ship of 25 portable tables used by the FICS team – your outstanding support is very much appreciated.
• FICS President, Dr Sheila Wilson and Secretary-Gener-al, Dr Phil Santiago for their administrative oversight at the Games including communications and negotiations with many of the VIPs. VIPs seen at the treatment centre at the head hotel included many members of the IWGA board and executives from several of the sports interna-tional federations.
The next World Games are to be held in Wroclaw, Poland in August 2017. FICS will be there once more. Will you be on the team and have the wonderful experience of a World Games?
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French chiropractor Dr Jean-Pierre Bruyere has been chiropractor to cur-rent Wimbledon champion Andy Mur-ray and current Australian Open cham-pion Victoria Azarenka and other elite tennis players during their careers.
The October 2013 issue of the Australian Tennis Magazine, just published, has an article Training Techniques for Top Tennis which features Dr Bruyere’s approach to training and care, and the importance of coordination as well as power. In his autobiography Hitting Back Murray acknowledges his debt to Dr Bruyere – see extracts with this interview.Born in Chambon sur Lignon in France in 1964, Dr. Bruyere is a 1994 graduate of Life West Chiropractic College in Hay-ward, California. Upon graduation he planned to practice sports chiropractic practice in Colorado, but returned to Eu-rope on account of his mother’s illness.Dr. Bruyere then joined a practice in the UK in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, a town full of sport and famous for over 100 years for its rowing club and international regattas – which now include three Summer Olympics rowing compe-titions in 1908, 1948 and 2012.By 2003 Dr. Bruyere had developed a national reputation with professional athletes from many sports, and that year he accepted an invitation to serve as Consultant Chiropractor for the British Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) at its head-quarters at the Queen’s Club, London, providing a range of services including physical screening and management of all young players joining the CTA school and national training program. He continued in that position until 2007, and has since travelled for 30-35 weeks annually on the ATP Tour as sports chiropractor for a number of elite tennis players. He
has worked Davis Cup tournaments for the British, Federa-tion Cup Tournaments for the Russians.He gave the following interview to the FICS News at the Café Rouge in Henley on Thames during September.Q. What was your own background in sports?
A. I was active in many sports during my high school years. These included handball, tennis and athletics – sprint, long jump and triple jump. Handball is big in Europe and that was my main team sport at school.
Q. How and why did you choose chiropractic as your profession?
A. Medicine was my first choice and I completed three years of medical school at St. Etienne. However, as I read and thought more about the origins of health and healing, I began to look for an alternative to medicine. My mother had a very holistic approach to health. I had experienced chiropractic treatment for a back injury from tennis.
As I saw it, medicine was stationary but chiropractic was about movement. I completed a pre-chiropractic course in France and then attended Life West in California, graduating in 1994.
Q. What were your plans then?
A. I was interested in sports chiropractic and planned to re-main in America so that I could do much more postgraduate study as I began to practice. By this I mean reading widely and taking all the seminars I could to learn much more about physical assessment, about finding and understanding the true origins of musculoskeletal problems, and developing more treatment skills and tools to complement what I had already learned.
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Victoria Azarenka wins the Australian Open in February 2012Andy Murray is at last Wimbledon Champion, July 2013
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As one example when a patient has an SI joint or low-back problem, what is the real origin of that? In my experience it is often the case that it is quad dominance creating the wrong action in the kinetic chain.
On functional screening I began to learn from clinical experts in chiropractic, such as Dr. Steve Yeoman on core stability and qualitative and quantitative movement dysfunction, and in medicine such as Drs. Janda and Lewit in Prague. They had the most extraordinary initial physical exam I could find at that time and I incorporated many of their ideas.
While studying chiropractic I had babysat for the well-known Life West professor, Dr. Malek Slosberg, who had an open mind and a large library and I credit him with encouraging me to read widely and continue my studies.
Q. Where did you start your practice and how did you build it?
A. Just at the time I was taking my Colorado Board exams my mother became ill and this brought me back to Europe. I then joined a friend practicing in Henley in the UK, a town with a strong sports tradition. The English read their news-papers, so I prepared paid articles focusing on topics such as screening for and preventing sports injuries. This was ef-fective in producing referrals and my practice grew steadily.
Then there are important moments that move you forward. In 2000 I received a call from Philippe Saint Andre, former
captain of the French Rugby Team, and now player/coach for the UK premier league team Gloucester. One of the players, a well-known forward who had just returned from a rugby tour of New Zealand, was suffering severe migraines. He had had everything the medical team could produce, from scans to injections and medications. I ordered specific x-rays, then as-sessed and adjusted the cervical spine from a chiropractic per-spective and one treatment session produced complete relief.
Q. Did that lead to further work with the Gloucester Rugby Team?
A. I was asked to be team chiropractor - but did not proceed with this. First, all of the physical screening and medical team services were disorganized at that time and it would have been difficult for me to produce change. Second, Glouces-ter was three hours away which was too far. However, I did make a few recommendations which were implemented. A fundamental one was to reduce injuries by eliminating all
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Dr Bruyere with Andy Murray at the Davis Cup Great Britain vs Israel in Tel Aviv in March 2005.
Hitting Back: The Autobiographyby Andy Murray, current Olympic and Wimbledon ChampionHere is Murray’s acknowledgement of Dr Bruyere and the value of his services from the time that Murray was injured as a junior in 2004. From page 60:
“ I kept going, not least because I met a man who proved to be real-ly good for me. Mum found this French chiropractor, Jean-Pierre Bruyere, working part time for the LTA (UK Lawn Tennis Asso-ciation), and I don’t know how he was able to get me fit enough to play Roehampton, a tournament for juniors running up to the first week of Wimbledon, but he did.
In 10 days I was on a court again, winning 6/1 6/1. In fact, I won my first 3 matches really, really easily and reached the final.....I owe a great deal to Jean-Pierre. He was one of the most caring people I’d ever met. After all these physios and doctors telling me “don’t worry about it, just growing pains, come back in 3 weeks”, at last here was someone who believed me.
He always told me: “ Don’t let anyone mess with you. Take care of yourself. I want you to achieve your dreams. I don’t want anyone to stop you by pushing you too hard when you’re too young. It’s your body, your life. If you’re hurt - regardless of what anyone says -don’t play”.....
I was certainly grateful to be in good hands and he has helped me through many other injuries since.”
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hard physical contact during training. Saint Andre imple-mented this with great success. He took Gloucester to win-ning the championship, and later Sale.
Q. Tell us about your work with tennis.
A. In 2003, at a time when some of my patients were tennis players but none world-class, I was simply approached one day by the LTA. They wanted me as part of the medical staff with particular responsibility at first to look after the youth players entering school and academy at the Queen’s Club in London, which was about 45 minutes away from my practice. These were the top British youth players aged 15-18, being groomed as future champions.
When I went to check this out I found to my amazement that they had no physical screening at all. I agreed to start on the basis of two days a week and that I had authority to design and put in place a program of physical and functional tests, and a modified training program, to minimize injuries during training and competition.
Not surprisingly there was some difficulty with the medical director over this. My position was helped when my early predictions concerning injury proved to be accurate. How-ever, the big event occurred the next year and concerned the most promising young British player who had been living and training in a special tennis camp in Spain – Andy Murray.
After showering at about 8pm one night I received a call from a sports agent saying he represented a young player who had been injured for the last six months. The medical diagno-sis was stress fractures of the knee requiring surgery, they wanted a second opinion. I drove back to London to see the player that night. After reviewing the scans and completing my examination I was confident the problem was a bipartite patella with involvement of each of the ankle, hamstring, SI joint and low-back, and that all of this could be addressed through conservative functional treatment. “Andy, I will have you playing in 15 days,” I said and this proved true. This was in June and in September at age 16 he won the US Open for Juniors.
My position with the LTA was now secure. They wanted me fulltime and I was soon working with all the players in-cluding the Davis Cup team of Greg Rudeski, Tim Henman and Murray. My first Davis Cup trip was to Tel Aviv where against predictions, Great Britain beat Israel. The LTA made it clear my first priority should be Andy Murray, a new young star who had won the decisive doubles match with Rudeski.
Q. Tell us more about your screening program.
A. As soon as this was my responsibility at the LTA, I looked far and wide to build the best system for testing physical ca-pacity – baseline speed, endurance, standing jump for exam-ple – functional integrity, and education of the players and trainers about appropriate physical training regimes. One useful source I found was in French handball. At that time France was the high school European champion and had an
extremely sophisticated screening and training program with tests that could produce a 25 page report on an athlete. I built a ompletely new screening and training program.
Q. How long were you with the LTA?
A. For four years until 2007. These were exciting times, but long days and many weeks of travel as I remained in charge of the juniors, but also toured with the leading British players and Davis Cup Team. I was the only healthcare professional on tour with the team at first and you needed to be chiroprac-tor, parent, fitness manager, general manager and ready to make many important decisions. In later years I was joined by a great physiotherapist, but someone reluctant to make these wider decisions. From my chiropractic training I felt I had all the necessary tools, but it was a challenging situation – you felt much respect but people were watching and wait-ing for you to fail.
Q. What happened in 2007?
A. I parted company with the LTA, partly because it moved to a new $35 million faculty with a new CEO who released some of the important healthcare people I had put in place,
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Jean Pierre with the Russian Team and Vera Zvonareva at the Fed-eration Cup final Russia vs Spain in September 2008
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and partly because of my growing conflict with Andy Mur-ray’s new American coach. He wanted Murray, who was still young and growing and was also fragile from early ankle and back injuries while over-training on clay in Spain, to play through injuries. For example when Andy had groin pain in the semi-final of an ATP tournament in Miami I asked for an MRI and ruled out further play because of inflammation of the tendons. The orthopedist and I were overruled by a PT and coach who opted for pain killers, taping and continued play.
Although I have since worked with Murray, I left the LTA in the summer of 2007. Murray’s American coach was gone by September.
Q. By 2009 you were working with the Russian’s Women’s Team in the Federation Cup. How did that happen?
A. While at the LTA, I had helped plan and start an LTA clin-ic at Wimbledon during the championships which had such good reputation that other elite players wanted to experience its exercise methods, ice bath, medical services, etc. during the tournament. From contacts made there other teams came to me when they had injury problems.
The great Russian player Vera Zvonerova badly sprained an ankle while playing on clay in Charleston in 2008 at a time she was number three in the world. She came to me for conservative treatment and taping so that she could continue to play until she gained critical points in the world stand-ings and then go for necessary surgery. I enabled her to keep playing, then found an expert Dutch orthopedic surgeon who performed successful surgery, then monitored her rehab all winter. She recovered excellently and next year was the Wimbledon finalist against Serena Williams. The Russians then asked me to be their team chiropractor for the Federa-tion Cup.
For two years to July 2012 my principal work was on tour with Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. During the time her world ranking went from 4 to 1 and she won the 2012 Australian Open. However I have continued to work as consulting chi-ropractor for other ATP tour players including Andy Murray.
Q. It has recently been announced that Murray is to have sur-gery for a back problem. What is your view of this?
A. The proposed surgery is to repair some lumbar spine de-generation that has caused him ongoing difficulties and I wish him well. I believe a fundamental contributing factor is his left ankle, also injured in early years of clay court practice in Spain, and for which we have tried about 50 braces from all around the world.
Q. What are your current plans?
A. I am working on establishing a major new multidiscipli-nary clinic and training center. I have had a very generous funding offer to establish this in Qatar in the Middle East, but prefer to establish this in Henley or somewhere else within one hour of Heathrow Airport if possible.
Q. Any closing comment or advice?
A. Something that I believe is very important to greater ac-ceptance and integration of chiropractic as a respected pro-fession in sports and in general is much more consistency in clinical examination – the tests and evaluations that all chiropractors should make and apply to determine specific priorities on interventions.
I would love international agreement on that as in other pro-fessions. Whether the patient is an elite athlete or someone else suffering from chronic pain there should be evaluations in chiropractic practice that are agreed, common and usual and that identify the specific needs of the individual patient for improved performance and recovery.
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Victoria Azarenka wins the Australian Open in February 2012 and celebrates with Jean Pierre
Brent Clydesdale – AustraliaColin Edward – New ZealandDanilo Messa da Silva – Brazil
Matthew Proctor – South AfricaMartin Skopp – USA
CongrAtulAtions to these reCent grAduAtes from the iCCsp progrAm
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CanadaHockey Player Scores with ChiropracticOn September 6 the Toronto Star – the largest newspaper in Canada’s largest
city – published the following article in which NHL hockey star Gary Roberts presents a ringing endorsement for the services of sports chiropractors. (Excerpts only reprinted.)After almost a decade playing in the National Hockey League, Gary Roberts feared that his days as a professional athlete were finished. Thirty years old at the time and a left winger for the Calgary Flames, Roberts suffered a neck injury that left him with severe nerve damage and numbness in his arms. Repeated surgeries and rehab had little effect.
“I couldn’t hold a steak knife to cut my food,” he recalls. “My career was over. I was a pretty lost soul.”
But then, after a visit to a sports chiropractor in 1996 to re-lieve stress and reduce scar tissue in his upper spine and neck, Roberts regained his strength and mobility. He returned to the ice to play professional hockey for another 13 years.
“It saved my life,” says Roberts, who eventually retired from the NHL four years ago. He is now an advocate of chiropractic treatment as a complement to proper nutrition and training tech-niques — a program offered in his eponymously named Gary Roberts High Performance Centre at the Fitness Institute in North York. His highly regarded fitness and nutrition regimen is customized to his clients, be they elite and junior hockey play-ers or business executives who want to be physically active.
“[Whether] you’re a professional athlete or a weekend warri-or, the results are the same — your body gets beaten up,” says Roberts. “Chiropractors have taken sports to a new level.”
Dr. Mark Scappaticci agrees. Integrated techniques such as active release techniques (ART), manipulation and acupunc-ture are increasingly used to help athletes recover from injury and to perform at their best, says Dr. Scappaticci, a sports chi-ropractor who practices in Niagara Falls and Toronto. Roberts
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MexicoChiropractic at Taekwondo World ChampionshipsThis year’s World Taekwondo Champion-ships, promoted by the World Taekwondo
Federation (WTF) and hosted by the Mexican Taekwondo Federation, were held in Puebla, Mexico from July 15-21.
These were the 21st World Championships for men and 14th for women, and attracted some 900 athletes from 134
has been a client of his, as well as Olympic gold medallists Donovan Bailey and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Sports chiropractors understand the biomechanics of different sports and the injuries that can result from them, he says — injuries typically related to the build-up of abnormal tension in tissues, which increases with repetitive use of those muscles.
In order to restore and enhance function, sports chiropractors apply research-based therapies involving soft tissues (mus-cles), the nervous system and the joints.
Newer methods used by chiropractors, such as ART and acu-puncture, appear to be helpful in treating the strains, tears, imbalances in muscle groups and tendon inflammation that lead to injuries in all types of athletes, says Dr. John Theo-doropoulos, an orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine spe-cialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
As well, a “multidisciplinary approach” involving chiroprac-tors, physiotherapists, massage therapists, trainers, strength coaches and surgeons is increasingly common nowadays.
And although the medical community would like to see more scientific research on the effect of chiropractic in sports, Dr. Theodoropoulos says those who receive chiropractic care swear by the results. “When athletes refer to their doctor,” he says, “their doctor is usually a doctor of chiropractic.”
Gary Roberts monitors a client at his High Performance Centre.From left Drs. Saul Luengas, Mohsen Kazemi, Raul Carrillo and Rene Castillo.
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countries. More than120,000 spectators were joined by a large international audience through transmission of the event by television to 130 countries.
Dr. Rene Castillo and I had the honor of serving as sports chiropractors to the team of 6 men and 5 women from Ar-gentina, Dr. Raul Carrillo was the official chiropractor for the Mexican team of 8 men and 8 women. We were integrated with other members of the medical team and were kept very busy preparing the athletes for competition and attending to injuries they received.
At the same time as the Championships, there was the 4th International Symposium on Taekwondo Studies held on July 16 and 17. This was organized by the WTF and its Interna-tional Association of Taekwondo Research (IATR).
More than 30 speakers from many countries presented papers and research abstracts in fields related to taekwondo such as sports physiology, biomechanics, sports psychology – and sports chiropractic. The four chiropractic presenters were:
• Raul Carrillo, Mexico Joint Injury Prevalence due to Structural Instability in Elite Athletes, Keynote presentation.
• Rene Castillo, Mexico Improvement of Coordination and Balance in a Taekwondo Athlete
Dr. Luengas receives an award from WTF President, Dr. Chungwon Choue, for administrating and participating in the 4th Symposium of Taekwondo Research Studies.
Speakers at the Symposium.
• Saul Luengas, Mexico Functional Impact of the Correction of Biomechanical Deficiencies in Taekwondo Youth Athletes
• Mohsen Kazemi, Canada The Combined Effect of Creatine and Sodium Bicarbo-nate Supplementation on Blood Lactate and Anaerobic Power in Young Taekwondo Player
Submitted by: Dr Saul Luengas
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Team Argentina.
New ZealandQueenstown Lower Extremity Module Sold OutA well-attended and successful Lower Extremity FICS ICCSP module was held
at the Mecure Queenstown Resort in the South Island of New Zealand from September 13-15, 2013. The FICS speakers in-cluded Drs. Rick Ames, Peter Garbutt, Ross McIlven, Brian Nook, Noel Patterson and Henry Pollard.
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Special guest speaker was Dr. Deb Robinson, former phy-sician for the NZ All Blacks rugby team, who provided the group with a presentation followed by a lengthy discussion period.
The seminar was attended by 53 chiropractors, 36 students (the majority with Murdoch University) and two exhibitors. Cherye Roche was involved in assisting with obtaining port-able treatment tables and Ross McIlven provided instruction of the taping session.
There were 17. 5 contact hours, the Chiropractic Association of Australia authorized 17.5 hours of CPD points, and the 66 delegate questionnaires completed at the end of the seminar re-ported high satisfaction with the speakers and program content.
We acknowledge our appreciation of Beiersdorf for con-tributing the tape supplies for the seminar. Overall a most successful seminar. We have promoted the Upper Extremity module to be held in July 2014 in Queensland, Australia, and there is already great interest in this.
Submitted by: Deb Nook, FICS ICCSP Coordinator, Australasia
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TurkeyNewly elected Chairman of the Profes-sional Windsurfers’ Association (PWA - www.pwaworldtour.com), and leading its World Tour, is 44 year old American
windsurfer Jimmy Diaz, a veteran of the 1992 Olympics. Both he and his Turkish champion surfer wife, Çağla Kubat, are chiropractic patients and keen to have FICS involved with in-ternational windsurfing events. I am currently arranging that.
Jimmy Diaz
USAFICS welcomes ConnecTX as a new sponsor. Its multipurpose, single instru-ment for soft-tissue was developed by ex-perts at New York Chiropractic College,
a long-term FICS member and supporter. Here is an intro-duction to ConnecTX and recent news from NYCC.
BackgroundConnecTX (pronounced ka-neck-ticks) is an instrument-as-sisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) technique designed by chiropractors for chiropractors. This technique utilizes an economically crafted single instrument with evidenced-based protocols that complement the chiropractic adjustment. Con-necTX emollient is specially formulated to provide a smooth, friction-appropriate interface between the patient’s skin and instrument for a comfortable treatment application.
ConnecTX protocols are grounded in scientific literature, and by incorporating patient-centered research through the Na-tional Institutes of Health/Patient Reported Outcomes Meas-urement Information System (NIH/PROMIS) portal, the ex-pansion of evidence-based knowledge will continue to ensure the protocols meet the highest standards.
Certified practitioners complete a three module training series, pass an extensive examination and participate in re-search activities to continually advance the therapy. That’s why we like to say ConnecTX is always evolving, always improving.
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İ am honored to have been re-elected to the European Com-mittee for the Development of Parabadminton, on behalf of the World Badminton Federation. I will be with the Turkish National Team at this year’s World Parabadminton Champi-onships, to be held in Dortmund, Germany from November 6-10, 2013.
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Rick Rosa, DC, CCSP, DAAPM is the Chiropractor and Recovery Specialist for the Champion System Pro Cycling Team. Dr. Rosa can be seen here using ConnecTX therapy during the 2013 training camp.
Philip T. Santiago, DC, DACB-SP, FICC, FACC using Con-necTX at The World Games 2013 in Cali, Columbia.
ConnecTX Kit - instrument, manual, and 2 oz. emollient
New York Chiropractic College: Sports Science and Human Performance OpportunitiesA certified athletic trainer and dip-lomat of the American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board, Nathaniel C. Majoris, DC, is an assistant professor in the clinical sciences department at New York Chiropractic College (NYCC), teaching lower extremity chiropractic technique. Majoris’ clin-
ical experience in sports medicine and chiropractic includes: volunteer team doctor for various high school sports in Penn-sylvania and West Virginia; sports medicine provider for the Community College of Allegheny County, and Chiropractic Physician for the University of Charleston. At NYCC, Dr. Majoris oversees the chiropractic care provided by students at the College’s athletic outreach events and sports rotation. His team recently provided support to athletes participating in the Athleta Iron Girl Triathlon event in Syracuse, NY.
NYCC upper trimester students also have the opportunity to provide on-site chiropractic care to college athletes at the Di-vision I & III level. From the training room to on-field evalu-ation and management of athletic injuries during practices and games, NYCC students are exposed to a wide variety of non- to full-contact sports such as football, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, rowing, and cross-country.
NYCC will soon offer an Introduction to Sports Injury Man-agement elective that was developed by Dr. Majoris. This elective is designed to teach skills necessary for the chiro-practic student to work as part of the sports medicine team. Education and training will cover prevention, immediate management, and rehabilitation of injuries and of commonly encountered injuries to include the spectrum of life threaten-ing to non-traumatic overuse conditions. Skill development will include on field clinical decision making, first aid for sports injuries, taping and wrapping procedures, and rehabili-tation / performance enhancement treatment planning
Nathaniel C. Majoris, DC
