Dr. Stephen J. Press

Stephen Jay Press, DC, PhD, CCSP, FACSM, FICC, is the founder of the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (Fédération Internationale de Chiropratique Sportive (FICS)).
Press was born October 20, 1947 in New York City to Howard and Renee Press.
The FICS started out of Press' home in 1987 and by 2009 had grown to include virtually every National Chiropractic Association, with headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and administered by the World Federation of Chiropractic in Toronto, Canada. At the same time in 1987, Press founded the ] which lists and honors the Chiropractic Doctors who have served National Olympic teams at the Olympic Games. In 1989 while working in Moscow, Russia, he founded the Russian Chiropractic Association, and started a joint venture under the Soviet system with then chief neurologist of Moscow, Dr. Fedin Anatoly Ivanovich, at City Hospital No. 15, in the Vuikhino section of the City. Later that year he was asked by the Minister of Sport of the Soviet Union, to serve as Chief Physician for the USSR Winter Olympic team in Albertville, France in 1992. As the USSR dissolved in the interim, the team marched into the stadium as 15 separate countries, euphemistically called the "unified team". Dr. Press served as team physician to all 15 teams.
About that time, Press was accepted by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as their first DC to become a "Fellow" . Subsequently he graduated from the Team Physician's course given by the International Federation of Sports Medicine in England, and was the first DC to accomplish that feat .
During a rift between the FICS and the World Olympians Association (WOA), Press' longtime friend Dr. Tom Hyde called him to serve on the Board of the fledgling International Sports Chiropractic Association (ISCA), which serves to screen and select Chiropractic Doctors to work at Olympic Events around the World.
Dr. Press is the author of several books; most notably an autobiography, called Passion, Profession and Politics and A Chiropractic Patient's Q&A.

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