Stephen Press, DC, PhD, was the honoree last week in Rio de Janeiro, at the World Congress of Chiropractic, by representatives of 100 national associations, for founding the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic, known as “FICS”.
At the World Chiropractic Congress in Rio de Janeiro, last week, the representatives of some 100 national Chiropractic Associations met to hold the World meetings of the two agencies which represent the Chiropractic profession at the World level; the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) and FICS, the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic. The Executive Board of FICS voted to honor Dr. Stephen Press, of Englewood, NJ with the”Founder’s Award” for founding the federation in1987 in London.
At the beautiful Kensington Town hall in downtown London, in Sept 1987, the representatives of 23 National associations met on invitation of Dr. Press, who was serving as Chairman of the ACA (American Chiropractic Association) Sports Council’s International Affairs committee at the time. They voted to form the federation, and then elected him their first president.
He continues to practice in Englewood, NJ, and today serves as editor-in-chief for the Harvard Medical School based Wiki site, WikiDoc.org for Alternative medicine, and as Exec. Tech Dir. for the Columbia based site, called Ourmed.org.