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FICS News DECEMBER 31, 2009
Maison du Sport International, Avenue de Rhodanie 54, CH-1007Lausanne
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
ROLAND NOIRAT, DC
Over the past two years there have been major developments at FICS – new statutes, broader representation and leadership, full-time staff support and expanded programs and communications. FICS is beginning to fulfill its potential as a strong and effective voice for sports chiropractic worldwide.
As the year ends there have been two more signs of growth. First the ACA Sports Council has become a FICS member in its own right rather than indirectly through its membership in the USSCF. Next Life University of Atlanta, Georgia, which has one of the strongest sports chiropractic programs of all chiropractic colleges, has become a FICS Gold Sponsor at the $10,000 level.
Those of you who were at the FICS Assembly, Council and Commission meetings in Montreal in April will know firsthand how much new energy, growth and promise there is in FICS. This issue of the FICS News confirms that. You will see:
FROM THE EDITOR
TOM HYDE, DC DACBSP
This issue of the FICS News carries an interview with an extremely talented sports chiropractor – Dr. Sheila Wilson of Indianapolis, who has repre-sented the North American Region on the FICS Executive Council since January this year.
Sheila is also immediate Past President of the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries and Fitness (the ACA Sports Council) where she has demonstrated unusual ability, capacity for hard work and commitment. It has been my pleasure to work with her in the ACA Sports Council for the past 10 years and she is one of our outstanding young leaders.
Until this year the American member organi-zation for FICS has been the United States Sports Chiropractic Federation (USSCF), a Federation representing various sports chiropractic organi-zations including the Council of Elite and Profes-sional Athletes (CEPA), ProSport and associa-tions affiliated with the ACA and ICA. The USSCF was designed to be representative, but has proved difficult to administer and has lost profile in the US. On January 1 the ACA Sports Council is replacing the USSCF as a FICS mem-ber for the USA – and as it is unquestionably the strongest sports chiropractic association in the US this is excellent news for FICS.
With Sheila on the ExCo, and the ACA Sports Council lending its considerable support, FICS is entering 2010 on a roll. Enjoy the many develop-ments in international sports chiropractic you will read about in this FICS News and my very best wishes for the New Year.
C O N T E N T S
ExCo and Commissions 3 SportAccord Article 4 Future Events 5 FICS Education Commission 6
Vancouver Olympics 7 Research Corner 10 Around the World in Sports Chiropractic 11
Cont’d on pg. 2 ►
FEATURED INTERVIEW - DR. SHEILA WILSON 8
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Following the World Games in Taiwan, we now have a report from the Masters Games in Sydney, Australia – which featured the largest sports chiropractic team ever at a Games event.
There is a new national sports chiropractic council in France, sponsoring a first postgraduate sports chiropractic course and qualification in French, being held at the IFEC School of Chiropractic in Paris during 2009-2011.
From the UK Dr. Paul Cheung reports on the season as team chiropractor for the F1 Red Bull Racing Team.
We have important new research with elite judo athletes from Dr. Marcelo Botelho.
Dr. Saul Luengas of Mexico, a member of the FICS Communications Commission, reports on sports chiropractic services provided by him and others at the Taekwondo World Championships in Denmark in October – and how Dr. Mohsen Kazemi of Canada and he have been appointed to the World Federation of Taekwondo’s first Research Study Group after scientific presentations made by them.
FICS Secretary-General, Dr. Alex Steinbrenner reports on the significance of SportAccord and the growing presence that FICS and sports chiropractic have with that organization.
From Canada there is the exciting news that the Vancouver Winter Olympics in February will be the first Olympics to have chiropractic services as an integral part of the core sports medicine team.
Approximately 24 chiropractors credentialed by the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (Canada) will serve athletes at the Olympics and Paralympics. One of those at the Polyclinic in Vancouver will be FICS Executive Council member, Dr. Gordon Lawson.
It is important for me to acknowledge that not everything is perfect. FICS is partway through a long rebuilding process and still faces many challenges, particularly in areas of policy, communications and finance. Much hard work has been done by Dr. Tim Stark and members of his Education Commission on improving the ICSSD program and putting it online – but much work remains. Thank you for taking on this challenge Tim.
However looking back on the successes of this year we can be confident of greater advances in 2010. If we all continue to work together there will soon be much greater presence of sports chiropractic at the national and international levels. On behalf of the FICS Executive Council my thanks to all of you for your support during the past year, whether as member or staff or in whatever capacity. FICS’ strength comes from you. It is my privilege to be your president and I wish you all Happy Holidays and a successful New Year.
The President:
Dr. Roland Noirat
President’s Message Continued...
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Robert
Wasserman Singapore
Asia
FICS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL – 2009 PRESIDENT
Roland Noirat Switzerland
Europe
Rnoirat@ fics-online.org
VICE-PRESIDENT
Brian Nook Australia Europe
b.nook@ murdoch.edu.au
SECRETARY- GENERAL
Alex Steinbrenner
Germany Europe
info@chiropraktik- wolfsburg.de
INTERIM-EXECUTIVE
Marcelo Botelho Brazil
Latin America
quiropraxia@ hotmail.com
Charmaine Koporaal
South Africa Africa
INTERIM-EXECUTIVE
Sheila Wilson USA
North America
IndySportsDoc@ iquest.net
Mustafa Agaoglu
Turkey Eastern
Mediterranean
John Downes
USA North America
Gaery Barbery
Australia Pacific
Gordon Lawson
Canada Member at large
maxlawson@ rogers.com
Carla How
United Kingdom Member at large
carlahow@scotia
chiropractic.co.uk
Commission of Communication (CoCOM) Philippe Roulet, Chair—Switzerland Mustafa Agaoglu, ExCO—Turkey Gaery Barbery, ExCO—Australia Yolanda Camacho Kortman—Costa Rica Martin Camara—Philippines Philippe Fleuriau—France Annette Joergensen—Denmark Saul Luengas—Mexico Commission of Education (CoEDU) Tim Stark, Chair —Australia Rikke Craven, Co-Chair—Denmark John Downes, ExCO—USA Ed Feinberg—USA Scott Howitt—Canada Brian Nook, ExCO—Australia Dik Skippings—United Kingdom Ken Thomas—USA Commission of Ethics (CoETH) Carla How, Co Chair, ExCO—United Kingdom Susan Bromley, Co-Chair—USA Roland Noirat, ExCO—Switzerland Commission of Finance (CoFIN) Christopher Wegelin, Chair—Switzerland Howie Fidler—USA
Sherri LaShomb, Chief of Finances—USA Fabrizio Mancini—USA Commission of Games(CoGAM) Tim Ray , Chair—USA Marcelo Botelho, ExCO—Brazil Tom Greenway—United Kingdom Charmaine Korporaal, ExCO—South Africa Gregory Oke—New Zealand George Oxinos—Cyprus Alex Steinbrenner, ExCO—Germany Robert Wassermann, ExCO—Singapore Sheila Wilson, ExCO—USA Commission of International Sports Federations (CoIFS) Brian Nook, Chair—Australia Angela Salcedo—USA Roland Noirat, ExCO—Switzerland Alex Steinbrenner, ExCO—Germany Commission of Research (CoRES) Henry Pollard, Chair—Australia Eduardo Bracher—Brazil Jay Greenstein—USA Craig Liebenson—USA Craig Morris—USA Thomas Souza—USA
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What is SportAccord? Why do FICS leaders attend its annual International Convention – held this year in Denver, Colorado in March and to be held April 26-30 next year in Dubai?
SportAccord, previously known as the General Assembly of International Sports Federations or GAISF, is the organization representing all inter-national federations for individual sports – for ex-ample for football (FIFA), track and field, skiing and over 100 other sports federations all the way to table tennis and dragon boat racing.
The SportAccord International Convention is a 5-day gathering of about 1,500 leading representa-tives from international sports. It is created and owned by SportAccord, the Association of Sum-mer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) and the Association of International Olympic Win-ter Federations (AIOWF). The convention encom-passes the General Assemblies of over 100 interna-tional sports federations.
The mission of the convention is to offer the sports community a powerful opportunity to come together on a global scale in an exclusive and authoritative networking environment, to build relationships, share knowledge and develop ideas. It is also designed as a commercial platform whereby the sports industry can have one-stop-shop access to all the world governing bodies and their key decision makers.
The convention receives the full support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its President, who agreed to organise the spring meetings of the IOC Executive Board at each con-vention so far. In addition to its Executive Board Meeting, the IOC holds its annual joint meetings with SportAccord, ASOIF and AIOWF during the convention.
You can see, therefore, why this event is impor-tant to FICS and other international federations representing healthcare professions. Over a period of years FICS has built strong contacts and in-
creasing profile with influential individuals at SportAccord. Federations are entitled to be repre-sented by their President, Secretary-General and one other. In Denver FICS was represented by Dr. Roland Noirat, FICS President, Dr. Tim Ray, Chair, Games Commission and me. In Dubai next April Dr. Noirat and I will again lead the FICS delegation.
There are other important SportAccord meet-ings during the year, typically held in Lausanne, Switzerland home of the Olympic movement. This is just one reason it has been valuable having a FICS Headquarters office in Lausanne since 2006.
For example there was a SportAccord IF Forum in Lausanne November 16-18 attended by Dr. Noirat. He attended topic sessions (e.g. sports and youth, sponsorship and revenues) and met with officials organizing many future games (e.g. Medi-terranean Games, Combat Games, Target Games, Beach and Sand Games).
Video Endorsement by Olympian
If you want to show patients or anyone else an excellent endorsement of the value of sports chiro-practic care, show them the video presentation by Karen Furneaux at
www.ccssc.ca, website of the College of Chiro-practic Sports Sciences (Canada).
Karen, a sprint kayaker from Waverley, NS who has been to the past two Summer Olympics and now has her sights set on London 2012, gives compelling testimony of the importance of regular chiropractic care to her as an athlete. This is done in a convincing manner – and she adds that all people, not only athletes, should experience these benefits.
SPORTACCORD AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE by Alex Steinbrenner, FICS Secretary-General
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‘In-Residence’ Sport Chiropractic Program in Chile December 2009—3, 4, 5, 6 April 2010—22, 23, 24, 25 Chile
ICSSD Hands-on Module (Upper Extremity) April 30– May 2, 2010 Kansas City, Kansas
ICSSD Hands-on Module (Upper Extremity) June 4-6, 2010 Lausanne, Switzerland
ICSSD Hands-on Module (Lower Extremity) October 14-17, 2010 Lausanne, Switzerland
ICSSD Hands-on Module (Upper Extremity) 2010 Melbourne, Australia
ICSSD Hands-on Module (lower Extremity) 2011 Sydney, Australia
FICS Headquarters: MSI Maison du Sport International Avenue de Rhodanie 54 CH – 1007_Lausanne VD Switzerland Tel: +41 (21) 601 0858 Fax: +41 (21) 601 7923 Roland Noirat, DC—President
Administrative Office: c/o World Federation of Chiropractic 1246 Yonge Street, Suite 203 Toronto, ON M4T 1W5 Canada Tel: 1 416 484 9091 Fax: 1 416 484 9665 Sandra Brown —Executive Secretary
ADMINISTRATION
Future Events
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This has been a busy but productive year as the Education Commission has been reviewing the whole field of postgraduate education in sports chiropractic, upgrading the ICSSD program, arranging course materials online rather than on CDs, and organizing current and future ICSSD hands-on modules.
ICSSD modules during 2009 have been held in Amsterdam, Lausanne and Perth. Particular thanks to Dr. Rikke Craven, Dr. Roland Noirat and Drs. Brian and Deb Nook respectively for leading the planning for these events. Next year modules are planned for Kansas City, USA (Upper Extremity – April 30-May2), Lausanne, Switzerland (Upper Extremity – June 4-6), Lausanne, Switzerland (Lower Extremity – October 14-17) and Melbourne, Australia (Upper Extremity – date to be confirmed).
Technical preparation for the new FICS e-learning system, which will provide the online
learning and assessment aspects of the revised ICSSD program, are c o m p l e t e . I a m optimistic we can open the ELS on or about January 31 – there will be an emailing on this and information at the FICS website when we are ready to go.
There is upgraded information concerning the ICSSD at the website. This includes information from the September FICS News explaining how those with various postgraduate sports chiropractic certifications can convert these to an ICSSD.
Finally grateful thanks for the hard work to the other members of the Finance Commission – Dr. Rikke Craven, Denmark, Co-chair, Dr. John Downes, USA, Dr. Ed Feinberg, USA, Dr. Scott Howitt, Canada, Dr. Brian Nook, Australia, Dr. Dik Skippings, UK and Dr. Ken Thomas, USA.
FICS EDUCATION COMMISSION Timothy Stark, DC, ICSSD, Chair, Education Commission
Jeff Cubos Lisa Dickerson Henrik Hojgaard Jackie Huang Elize Kotze Rory Onley
Coralie Pellissier Ira Shapiro Stephen J. Press Mike Swain Chris Yelverson
CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE RECENT GRADUATES FROM THE ICSSD PROGRAM
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The 23rd Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver from February 12-28, 2010 (VANCO) will be the first to have doctors of chiropractic serving all athletes as part of the official sports medicine services arranged by the Organizing Committee and provided in the polyclinics.
These arrangements have been negotiated by the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (Canada), the national organization r e p r e s e n t i n g s p o r t s chiropractic in Canada, and have been possible because of the respect the CCSS(C) has within the Canadian sports world because of its d e m o n s t r a t e d h i g h standards. Coordinator of
chiropractic services will be Dr. Robert Armitage of Vancouver.
Congratulations to FICS Executive Council member Dr. Gordon Lawson of Toronto who will be one of the 6 chiropractors at the Vancouver Polyclinic. There will be another 5 at the Polyclinic in Whistler, venue for the skiing. A total of 24 have been selected for the Olympics and Paralympics. A number of other sports chiropractors from Canada and around the world will be working with individual national and sports teams.
Asked about the selection process Gordon explains that this started nearly 2 years ago when the CCSS(C) called for CVs and applications for those interested in volunteering. Final decisions were made by a CCSS(C) Committee led by Dr. Armitage and were based on education, experience and ability to work within a team
environment. Security checks are now complete, uniforms are now being issued and Gordon is ready to go.
Those who know him appreciate that hockey has been a lifetime passion, and that it is typical of his irreverent humor for Gordon to have advised FICS News that he hopes to make history at the Olympics – becoming the first volunteer to also be an Olympian. Although he is working as a chiropractor in the Polyclinic his big dream is to play on the ice for Team Canada.
“I will bring out my hockey equipment and wait for Steve Yzerman (coach of the men’s hockey team) to call” says Gordon.
Self-described as “over 5 feet 5 inches tall, 150 pounds and almost 60 years old”, Gordon has lost some speed when skating. We suspect he has lost some grey matter as well.
On a more serious note congratulations to Gordon and to all members of the CCSS(C) team and we look forward to your reports following the Olympics.
Dr. Lawson (Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, 1976), a Past-President of the CCSS(C), also served at the Athens Olympics. He holds postgraduate qualifications in nutrition, sports chiropractic rehabilitation and orthopaedics. In addition to his busy fulltime practice he is on faculty at CMCC where he teaches in both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His wife, Dr. Susan Gillis, is also a chiropractor.
Dr. Lawson in training
for the Olympics.
Dr. Gordon Lawson.
VANCOUVER OLYMPICS - LAWSON ON THE TEAM
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Sheila Wilson, DC, CCSP, ICSSD (Cleveland College, Kansas City, 1995) is immedi-ate Past President of the Ameri-can Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries and Physical Fitness (ACA Sports Council), and is currently a representative of the North American Region on the FICS
Executive Council. She also serves on the FICS Games Commission.
Dr. Wilson has a predominantly sports chiropractic practice at her Georgetown Chiropractic Clinic in Indi-anapolis, Indiana where she is team chiropractor for the Indiana Invaders Track and Field Team. She has worked at the US track and field national champion-ships and the Olympic trials for track and field since 1999. International games served include the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City (2002), the Central Ameri-can and Caribbean Games (2003) and the World Games (2005 and 2009).
How did you decide upon sports chiropractic?
Growing up I was very active in sports—ballet, track, tennis and basketball. I knew when I was 16 years old that I wanted to become a chiroprac-tor. With my love of sport, it was a natural pro-gression for me to specialize in sports chiroprac-tic. Even so, I never dreamed all the people I would meet and the travel and professional growth I would experience while doing some-thing I love so much.
How did you get started?
After first working with my father, also a chiro-practor, I bought a practice in Indianapolis in 1998. This was a general practice and a significant part of my practice is still for general patients. However by applying the education, techniques and principles I was continuing to learn in sports chiropractic my practice began to attract more ath-letes and sports injury cases. Now more than half of my patients are sports focused – from pee wee to weekend warrior to professional.
What further sports chiropractic education do you have?
The formal postgraduate qualifications are Certi-fied Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP) and the International Chiropractic Sports Science Diploma (ICSSD). However I also became certified in Gras-ton and Active Release Techniques – as a sports chiropractor skilled soft tissue work is a must – and then a large part of my education has been through the experience I’ve gained, working events with very talented colleagues in our profes-sion throughout the world.
Describe your practice.
At my Georgetown Chiropractic Clinic there is a second chiropractor and 4 massage therapists. In addition a Pilates/personal trainer has a studio in the office. I am team chiropractor for the Indiana Invaders Track and Field Team and the Matthews Cycling Team.
For some athletes I coordinate all care from treat-ment to rehabilitation, for others I work on refer-rals from sports medicine physicians, physical therapists, ATCs, personal trainers and a local gym.
Tell us more about the Indiana Invaders.
My contact with the Track and Field Team started when I treated an Invader – a high jumper – at the 2004 Olympic Trials. Through this I was intro-duced to Terry Fletcher, the massage therapist for the Invaders, who recommended me to the Invad-ers’ team coach Greg Harger in Indianapolis. I be-gan seeing their athletes and was asked to serve as a professional team chiropractor in 2006. During track season I see team athletes both in office and on the field – at local meets and at national cham-pionships/Olympic Trials. All of this combines two things – my love of running and chiropractic. When I competed my distances were 800 and 1,500 meters.
Give us a highlight from your work at interna-tional games events.
There are so many. With elite athletes, who work and train so hard, there are those key moments in competition where your last minute treatment en-ables them to compete successfully and they then take time to give you special thanks.
Interview with Dr. Sheila Wilson
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Here is a picture with an athlete at the 2005 World Games in Duisburg, Germany who won 2 medals after I helped him with a shoulder problem – and who returned to say thank you and give me his winner’s bouquet of flowers.
He was in the German swimming/l i fesav ing team, was brought to the FICS tent by his physio-therapist thinking he would have to pull out of competition because of shoulder pain and was therefore very pleased first to compete and sec-ond to win medals.
Other special moments include what you learn at these games from other experienced and expert sports chiropractors. When my athletes travel continuity of care is much easier for them, and it is good for me and the reputation of our profession that I know DCs nationally and internationally to refer them to.
What advice do you have for others starting in sports chiropractic?
For those who wish to get involved in more events and working with athletes start with furthering your education and joining local/national sports chiropractic associations. I joined the ACA Sports Council out of school and FICS shortly thereaf-ter. In that way I had many opportunities that have been very important to my development in sports chiropractic.
You need to serve local teams and get experience in your community. If you participate or have ex-perience in a particular sport that is a good place to start. You can relate to the particular demands of the sports and have a deeper understanding of the athletes’ problems, and the athletes know that and it makes it easier for them to trust and relate to you. Many of my patients are runners and golf-ers because those are the sports for which I am still actively involved.
Do you have specific mentors in sports chiro-practic?
Yes – and they come from my fortunate decision
to be involved with the ACA Sports Council early in my career. Basically I can trace everything I have done back to my association with the ACA Sports Council and its members. Three key men-tors and friends are Drs. Tom Hyde, Tim Ray and Richard Gorman. Others include the current ACA Sports Council President, Dr. Ted Forcum who, like me, has a strong background and interest in track and field.
What are your current goals?
As a clinician I want to keep learning, growing and practicing in the field of sports chiropractic – something I find so rewarding. As a newly elected member of the FICS Executive Council I want to help in the exciting growth of FICS and sports chi-ropractic we are seeing at present.
Under new statutes in 2008 FICS has a new Coun-cil representing national sports councils in all world regions. Finally and very importantly FICS has fulltime staff support through a close new partnership with the World Federation of Chiro-practic. The lack of resources and the divisions in the profession that have held FICS back in the past are being replaced by a new professionalism and optimism.
At the recent World Games in Taiwan in August, where I was part of the FICS team, we had a won-derful team of 28 experienced and well-qualified sports chiropractors from 13 countries working according to established FICS protocols. They were supported by research assistants, keeping statistics for a formal report to the International World Games Association which has already con-firmed a FICS team for the next Games.
The ACA Sports Council and I want to be an active
part of all of this. Elite athletes want sports chiro-practic services and training in competition, but for these to be accepted and available at major games and events there must be a strong and re-spected international sports chiropractic organiza-tion – to build relationships with the International Federations (IFs) for each sport and to negotiate with organizing committees. FICS is now well-positioned for that role and the next few years are going to be the most exciting yet for sports chiro-practic.
Interview with Dr. Sheila Wilson
Continued...
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A new study from Brazil re-ports that chiropractic ma-nipulation to correct move-ment restrictions in the cervi-cal spine increases grip strength in elite judo athletes. This study titled Effects of Cervical Manipulative Verte-bral Therapy on Judo Athletes’ Grip Force, is by Marcelo Bo-telho, DC, ICSSC and Bruno
Andrade, MD from Salvador, Brazil, and was pre-sented by Dr. Botelho at the Brazilian Chiroprac-tors’ Association’s Congress held in Sao Paulo from October 8-10.
Botelho explained that for elite athletes in pro-fessional sports there is continual demand for treatments that improve performance, that joint manipulation to improve spinal function is in-creasingly used by athletes but needs further re-search, and that the objective of his pilot trial was to evaluate the effect of cervical manipulative ver-tebral therapy on grip force for elite judokas. Pre-vious studies had shown increased quadriceps strengths, altered neuromuscular reflexes and in-hibition of lumbar and cervical motoneurons fol-lowing joint manipulation.
Subjects were 18 female and male judo athletes competing at a national level in Brazil who were aged 15-30 years and had no previous experience with chiropractic treatment. The nine subjects ran-domly assigned to the treatment group received three treatments from an experienced chiropractor during a 3-week period, with a minimum interval of 36 hours between treatments. The nine subjects in the control group received a sham treatment involving mobilization only at the same fre-quency.
Treatments were given at the level of greatest biomechanical restriction – most frequently in the upper cervical spine at C1-2 (49%) or the cervico-thoracic junction between C5- T1 (43%). Interven-tions were timed for the afternoon prior to train-ing.
The groups proved to be well matched with respect to demographic and clinical factors (e.g. age, gender, competition level, knowledge of chi-ropractic, pain level, number of previous pain epi-sodes).
Grip strength was measured immediately prior to each intervention and 20 seconds afterwards. Results were that there was significant increase in grip strength for those in the treatment group but not those in the control group. Further, and most interestingly, grip strength improved increasingly in the treatment group after each of the 3 treat-ments.
In discussing the study Botelho acknowledged its limitations, including the small sample size. Based upon this pilot he is now planning a larger trial. He also drew attention to the significant dif-ferences between ‘spine cracking’, which is a com-mon practice among judo athletes, and targeted and skilled professional spinal manipulation. Strengths of the study were that all participants were engaged in daily and regular training and had high competition level, which provided for uniformity among subjects, and none had re-ceived prior chiropractic manipulation.
Dr. Botelho, who is a graduate of the chiropractic program at the University Anhembi Morumbi in Sao Paulo was a member of the official sports medicine team for the Brazilian National Team at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007, and currently serves as the Latin American representative on the FICS Ex-ecutive Council. He practices in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil where he is currently also completing a medical degree.
RESEARCH CORNER
Dr. Marcelo Botelho
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AROUND THE WORLD IN SPORTS CHIROPRACTIC
The World Masters’ Games is an international multisport event held every four years. It is gov-erned by the International Masters’ Games Asso-ciation (IMGA) and is open to sports people of all abilities and most ages – the minimum age crite-rium ranges from 25 to 35 years depending upon the sport.
FICS works closely with the IMGA. Both organiza-tions have offices at the House of Sport in Lausanne Switzerland. It was a pleasure for FICS and me to work with Sports Chiropractic Australia, the FICS member in Australia, in connection with recent Games in Syd-ney. However the success of this event can mostly be attributed to Dr. Peter Garbutt and Sports Chiroprac-tic Australia, whose report now follows. Gaery Bar-bery, DC, ICSSD, FICS Executive Council, Australia.
The 7th World Masters’ Games held in Sydney, Australia from October 10-18 attracted over 28,000 participants. They represented 95 different coun-tries and 28 different sports spread across 72 ven-ues throughout Sydney and surrounding areas. This is 2.5 times the number of competitors at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
In Sydney FICS, Sports Chiropractic Australia and Macquarie University, supported by CAA National, teamed up to create the largest ever sports chiropractic of any event in the world. With 67 chiropractors supported by 114 students, this team of 191 set out to cover 16 different sports over the 9 days of competition. Over 5000 treat-ments were provided throughout the games, with approximately 30% of these to people trying chi-ropractic for the first time. The commitment of some chiropractors to their profession and the public was outstanding, with volunteer practitio-ners coming from country New South Wales, Aus-tralian Capital Territory, Victoria, New Zealand and even the UK. It is the dedication of practitio-ners like these that allowed us to make such a big impact.
AUSTRALIA By Peter Garbutt, DC, President, Sports Chiropractic Australia
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With wonderful stories such as competitors coming straight to the chiropractic booth before going to their hotel, or the entire New Zealand netball team lining up for adjustments before their match, the service provided by the chiropractors and senior students was greatly appreciated by the athletes and event staff.
Jason Whealing, one of the senior students from Macquarie University providing chiropractic services at the games, regarded the week as a great opportunity to learn and communicate with athletes. “As we were packing up - and turning people away, unfortunately – a 66 year-old athlete who I had treated a few times at the velodrome and earlier the same day, came striding up with a huge smile on his face. He had just won silver in the 100km road race. This was despite knee trou-bles and hospitalisation 4 days earlier because his heart rate stayed too high after a time-trial race. The week was stimulating, and I would jump at chances to work with athletes in the future. What's more, it was exciting to win medals vicariously through our patients.”
An event like this, run to this level, doesn’t happen on its own. There was a dedicated com-mittee working on this event over the past 12 months who really were the reason it all hap-pened. Dr. Sara Winchester put countless hours into this event over the past 12 months, and also during the event. Sara made substantial sacrifices during this time to make sure things run smoothly for this event.
Karinna Handley from Macquarie University also put in countless unpaid hours preparing for this event. Karinna’s organisational skills and de-velopment of procedures and site manuals was remarkable and took us to a level of professional-ism within this event that was admired by other health services. Larissa McGlade was invaluable in organising the students for this event, and all the running around with equipment and supervis-ing throughout the event.
Dr. Henry Pollard was an important part of the Organising Committee with his insight into run-ning these events, as well as sourcing the great uniforms that we had. He has the big job ahead of creating publishable research from this event. I’d also like to make special mention of Rosemary Guirato who put in a mammoth effort throughout the games and made it possible for a number of event sites to have chiropractic services that other-wise would not have.
A big thank you has to also go to the com-mercial supporters of chiropractic at the Syd-ney World Masters Games. CAA National provided substantial funding which saw us able to provide all of our practitioners with shirts, bags, hats, tow-els and drink bottles. This funding also cre-ated a lasting legacy of marquees and banners which stood out through-out the event and will do for quite some time to come. Macquarie University also provided signifi-cant resources. Without the support of these two organisations we would not have had the out-standing success that we did. Victor Sports helped out with the strapping course prior to the games, as well as on-field bags for our supervisors.
Thank you to the NSW Registration Board also waived registration fees for international and in-terstate practitioners to allow them to practice throughout the games. Finally thank you to all those involved, the practitioners and the students. History was created with your involvement in this event. You created an unprecedented impact for the chiropractic profession in sports and the com-munity.
AUSTRALIA Continued...
AROUND THE WORLD IN SPORTS CHIROPRACTIC
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Michael Lord, a student at Palmer College of Chi-ropractic – West Campus (Palmer West), is Presi-dent of both the Palmer West Students Sports Council and the Student ACA Sports Council. At the invitation of FICS Executive Council represen-tative for the Latin American Region Dr. Marcelo Botelho, and with funding support from Palmer West and ACA Sports Council members, Michael was an invited speaker at the Brazilian Chiroprac-tic Association’s National Congress in Sao Paulo in October.
He spoke about the important role of sports chiro-practic education and the Student Council at Palmer West, a college famous for its sports chiropractic program, gradu-ates and achieve-
ments. A central purpose of his trip to Brazil was to encourage students at both of Brazil’s chiro-practic schools, at the University Anhemi Morumbi in Sao Paulo and FEEVALE Central University in Novo Hamburgo, to form student sports councils, have these join FICS, and become active in promoting opportunities for sports chiro-practic, education, experience, and services.
He drew an enthusiastic response and is now working with students at both colleges in the for-
mation of councils.
The first day of the Congress had a particular focus on sports chiropractic. A keynote speaker was Cassius Duran, Brazil’s leading diver who has been to the last 3 Summer Olympics and has been a patient of Dr. Plinio Barreto of Rio de Janeiro since 2000. At that time Dr. Barreto, as a member of the Brazilian Olympic Sports Medicine Team, assisted Duran during the Sydney Olympics. Duran spoke strongly of the importance with chi-ropractic to him in terms of keeping him injury free and promoting his performance in training and competition as an elite athlete.
Dr. Botelho presented new research with na-tional and international level judokas in Brazil – see Research Corner for details.
Michael Lord speaks at the Congress.
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Michael pictured with students FEEVALE Central University.
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Guest speakers at a well-attended Student Sports Chiropractic Council meeting at the Canadian Me-morial Chiropractic College in Toronto on No-vember 30 were Dr. Wilbour Kelsick and one of his star patients, Perdita Felicien who was 2003 world champion in the 100 meters hurdles and remains in the top 6 today.
Dr. Kelsick from Port Moody, British Colum-bia, has been to 5 Olympic Games with Canadian Olympic teams and, together with her coach, coor-dinates all of Perdita’s healthcare during training and competition. He spoke to students of how he became involved with local sports teams over 20 years ago, with no thought of ever serving at
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international games events let alone the Olympics. He then explained the realities, rewards and com-mitment needed for a career as part of the sports medicine team serving elite athletes.
Dr. Kelsick also explained the new model of providing healthcare and other support services to athletes. Formerly there was little integration of care and the athlete was passed from person to person rather than being the focal point. Now the athlete is at the center, with integration of the coaching, healthcare and other support team members around the athlete. Responding to this need Dr. Kelsick has founded the MaxFit Move-ment Institute. This integrates experts from main-stream and complementary healthcare based upon a philosophy of treating the whole person.
For more on this go to www.maxfit-movement.com.
Perdita explained how deeply she relies upon Dr. Kelsick for advice and treatment. He was there to support her physical and mental preparation in Paris in 2003 when at the age of 20 she became the first Canadian woman to win a track and field world championship. At that time she was study-ing at the University of Illinois and was named NCAA Female Track and Field Athlete of the Year. She was also named Canada’s Female Ath-lete of the Year – the first track athlete to capture that honor in 25 years.
In March 2004 Perdita set a new record in de-feating hurdling great Gail Devers in the 60 m hurdle final at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Highs such as this have been balanced with moments of despair – her fall in the final of the 100 meters at the Athens’s Olympics when she was favorite for the gold medal, and an injury that kept her from competing in Beijing last year. She had won a silver medal in the 100 meter hurdles in the World Championship in Osaka and in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
A native of Pickering, Ontario, Perdita now lives and trains in Atlanta in the US. Her health-care team lives in various cities, but is coordinated by Dr. Kelsick.
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Former 100m hurdles worldchampion Perdita Felicien with her chi-
ropractor Dr. Wilbour Kelsick at the practice track at the Berlin
World Championships this year.
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The French Chiropractic and Sport Council (FCSC), the FICS member in France, and the Franco-European School of Chiropractic (IFEC) have created a partnership to offer the first postgraduate sports chiropractic course and qualification in French. This has
the support of the French Chiropractic Association (AFC). Dr. Philippe Fleuriau is President of both
the AFC and the FCSC.
The course will include 140 hours of instruction over 6 weekend modules during 2009-2011. Ex-aminations are to be held in September 2011. A principal consultant to FCSC and IFEC in devel-opment of the course is FICS President, Dr. Ro-land Noirat of Lausanne, Switzerland, who also lectures at the Institute of Sport, Faculty of Sci-ences, Freibourg University, Switzerland.
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Raul Carrillo, DC, CCSP and I, both members of the Federación Mexicana de Quiropráctica Depor-tiva (FMQD), were team chiropractors for the Mexican and Argentinean teams at the World Championship of Taekwondo held in Copenha-gen, Denmark, October 14-18, 2009. Over 1,000 athletes from 150 countries participated in the Championships, which are held every 2 years.
It was my honor to represent the FMQD and FICS and to assist the teams from both Argentina and Honduras. Teams from Canada (Dr. Mohsen Kazemi), Korea (Dr. Jae Ho Khil) and the USA (Dr. Len Ershow) also had sports chiropractors. The World Federation of Taekwondo (WTF), the
The 80 participants attend-ing the first module held at IFEC in Paris, December 4-6 were 63 chiropractors, mostly from France but also from It-aly, Portugal and Spain, and 17 final or 6th year students from IFEC. Topics included the or-ganization of sport in France and sports chiropractic inter-nationally, sports sciences, doping control and clinical presentations.
Speakers included:
Jacky Avril, French Ministry of Health and Sport
Dr. Veronique Lebar, French Anti-doping Agency
Jean-Marc Gillieron, Department of Sport, University of Lausanne
Sports chiropractic experts including Dr. Noirat, Dr. Fleuriau, Dr. Vincent Kingel-schmitt and Dr. Frederic Alleman
The next module is in March and will focus on management of upper extremities. Graduates of the IFEC program will get advanced standing in the FICS ICSSD program. Like those with the Cer-tified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP) certifi-cation in the USA, IFEC graduates will have to complete only one further FICS module.
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Dr. Arnaud Lardon (left), Dr.
Roland Noirat and Dr. Philippe
Fleuriau at the first module at
IFEC earlier this month.
Dr. Philippe Fleuriau
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by Saul Luengas, DC, ICSSD, MSc (Palmer West, 1994), Queretaro, Mexico
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sponsoring organization for the World Champion-ships, also sponsored a 2nd International Sympo-sium of Taekwondo Studies. Health science re-searchers from many countries presented research relevant to this increasingly popular combat sport – in fields such as rehabilitation, physiology, bio-mechanics, philosophy and methodology.
My presentation at this Symposium was titled Chiropractic Treatment and Isokinetic Evaluation of the Lumbopelvic Area of Elite Taekwando Athletes of the Queretaro State Team in Mexico: Four Case Studies. My co-authors and colleagues are Dr. Francisco Diez and Dr. Raul Carrillo. At the Symposium WTF President, Chungwon Choue of Korea pro-posed for the first time the formation of a TKD
Research Study Group and founding members include Dr. Mohsen Kazemi of Canada and me.
The World Championship featured modified rules and the use of modern technology which mean tat athletes have to be more explosive and faster, and use more precisely developed kicks to
score points through contact with electronic body protectors.
Sports chiropractors were kept busy during the days of preparation and competition. My methods of evaluation and treatment included soft-tissue work (e.g. Graston), PNF, adjus-tive techniques includ-ing Activator, taping and kinesiotaping, cryotherapy etc. One of my Argentinean ath-letes suffered a right ankle injury in competition. With immediate cryotherapy then Graston and Activator techniques he recovered fully and re-turned to competition. Knees and ankles were the joints requiring most attention.
The Argentinean team, which is coached by Mexican Erick Osornio, had much success, with Mauro Crismanich winning the first bronze medal of the WTF Championship. Steven Lopez from the US, who is considered one of the best TKD ath-letes in the history of the sport, won his 5th World-Championship.
Dr. Luengas with Dr. Jae Ho Khil of Korea and Dr.
Mohsen Kazemi of Canada. Dr. Luengas with WTF President, Chungwon Choue.
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For decades F1 motor racing has been the pinnacle of all motorsports, and it was an honor to be asked early this year to serve a second season as chiropractor to the Red Bull Racing F1 Team with drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.
Last year I travelled the world looking after the drivers, pit-crew mechanics, technicians and sen-ior management – but also the media team, hospi-tality and VIPs. I was informed that the team would not have kept going last season without me, and readily agreed to cover 13 of the 17 races for the 2009 season.
For each race I am available for 4 days – Thurs-day to Sunday. Drivers get top priority. Nobody except Vettel and Webber are allowed to have treatment during the 1 hour before practice and qualification on Fridays and Saturdays and the 2 hours before the race on Sundays.
Few people realise how superfit drivers must be. On race day a driver has to endure up to 90 minutes of high temperatures, G-forces beyond anything we will experience, and concentrate on all the controls of their cars whilst battling with others on the circuit. And practice and racing fol-lows long-distance travel, disturbed sleep and many other stresses.
The drivers need to be at their best to cope with these factors, and I am happy to help. They and the pit crew and others serious about precision really appreciate getting adjusted.
How fit are drivers? It is said that Fernando Alonso is fit enough to race in the Tour de France. In fact Mark Webber of Red Bull sometimes trains with Lance Armstrong. Jenson Button of Brawn, this year crowned World Champion, is an Olym-pic level triathlete.
FICS News has asked me to explain what I do with the team and at the paddock. I serve the whole race team. I examine using normal biome-chanical assessment and AK muscle testing. I treat using chiropractic adjustments, myofascial tech-niques, trigger points, stretching, deep tissue tech-niques and kinesiotaping. Most of this is to im-prove performance and prevent injury though of course there is injury management also.
Dr. Paul Cheung with Red Bull's Mark Webber (left) and
Sebastian Vettel (right).
Close driving through the corner.
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From time to time I give advice on diet, nutri-tion and fluid intake but the drivers’ diets have already been sorted out by trainers and catering. The drivers’ personal trainers provide massage/warm-up assisting me in my work – which some-times sees me treating a driver just prior to him getting into the car.
I have become used to airports, different hotels and travelling in general. The setting-up of the clinic is straightforward in the European races. However teams cannot carry the European hospi-tality set-ups with them, and you make do with whatever facilities the circuit has to offer. Once set up the clinic runs from late in the evening of Thursday – the first day – right through to race day on Sunday.
Mechanics and technicians work late into the night setting up the two cars ready for practice on
Friday, then again on Friday night getting the cars adjusted for practice and qualification on Satur-day. I am there to help them throughout.
This year has been a great one for Red Bull Rac-ing – Sebastian Vettel came second in the Champi-onship, Mark Webber was another top driver, and the team was second in the Constructors Title af-ter Brawn GP. Vettel and Webber were first and second in the final F1 race of the season at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit.
It has been great to share the wins, the disap-pointments, the champagne finishes and the amazing spectacle of the F1 world.
Former McLaren and Red Bull driver David Coulthard
(standing) discusses the Japanese GP Suzuka Circuit with
Sebastian Vettel.
Dr. Cheung in team uniform and with the trophee.
Vettel on the podium as winner of the Japanese GP.
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