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Concussion program for retired athletes

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    How players recover from head trauma

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-- this -- and something.

I help.

Fluid helps them provisions for -- the few friends turning to over 200 retired professional athletes.

And for doctor Williams will cost you that is not enough.

Nearly three years -- -- starting the program PA ST.

-- alternative solutions -- treatments he's expanding it now starting an unprecedented concussion then head trauma treatment program.

The gold reducing symptoms and restoring the quality of life.

Past is is just unbelievable and how it's it's changing lives for many former players concussions and head injuries while on the field were often.

The after effects of the of the -- of them concussions.

Have left them.

With.

Depression have left them with.

-- self esteem have left them with anxiety and left them with its foot disturbances and you have left them with a visual disturbances.

The -- it didn't it didn't list goes on.

And that concussion program he came up with.

Actually stars at the patient's home where they take all -- cognitive tests and get blood work.

We get the results would call the patient and discussed there are there issues.

And from there we can make a decision whether we want to either bring them in or help them.

Work from home.

-- personally pays for those players to fly to New Jersey and stay in -- hotel so they can be treated at his office by his staff.

While there full cost you arranges for them to meet with specialists have procedures done like MRIs and cat scans all of this word.

And all of these special is doing this pro Bono.

Lot of these injuries that that former players have they can't get coverage for.

And then you add to that what the deductible would be for those injuries and it's through the roof -- in -- Clark was -- -- tunnel for me.

Doctor because soon and he's used this man.

You know and how would everything to him.

To date past has shelled out four million dollars in pro -- care for these -- athletes.

Doctor for -- you know -- stay close to one million dollars for their treatments and medications.

When asked why.

We saw that that these was there and bickering and all the guys up during the campaign without question the people -- -- true to what they do.

Sure hope -- By the way this program is -- just were -- athletes the public can sign up and see.

If they qualify for treatment act passed USA dot com.

In New -- I'm Dr.

Manny Fox News.

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