Team Doctors Treatment and Training Center

Sport:  Powerlifting

Dr James Stoxen has vast experience in treating and advising athletes who participate in the sport of powerlifting.  History of this sport goes back to Dr Stoxens first days as a chiropractor when world champion and strength legend, Ed Coanat that time considered pound for pound the strongest man in the world came to Stoxen for care in August 1986.  Dr Stoxen would travel with Coan to all the national and world championships as he broke record after record, year after year. 

In December, 1986, Dr Stoxen was invited by American Powerlifting Federation, president, Earnie Frantz to give treatment to the USA national team at the 1986 APF World Championships held in Maui Hawaii.  There he met and treated many world class lifters and gained their trust as well as furthering the relationships he had with the directors of the APF. 

Early in 1987 he was named the medical committee chairman which responsibilities included setting up a world wide network of doctors, trainers and therapists who have an interest and expertise in the treatment of these highly trained strength athletes.  He remained in this position and attended every national and world championship caring for numerous world class lifters till he resigned in 1992.  He has fond memories of times with the powerlifting federation and learned a tremendous amount from the lifters about strength training, diet and nutrition and injury prevention.

In summer of 1987, he was invited to travel as the team doctor for the APF national team in the first official competitions with the forner Soviet Union.  Dr Stoxen traveled with the team, met Dr Ed Enos, president of the Association of International Culture Exchange Programs AICEP.  Together Dr Enos and Dr Stoxen organized the second USA vs USSR powerlifting competitions in Moscow and Abacan Siberia and the first armwrestling competition between USA and USSR in Moscow.  Documentaries of the competitions and training techniques were presented as documentaries by a young John Abdo for ESPN later that year.