The purpose of this book is to educate you on the miraculous regenerative therapies NOW available to everyone! Why would you care? Because, if you or someone you love has been suffering with sore, aching joints... an aching back... or stiff shoulders there is now a solution to: -Get you out of pain -Regain your health and vitality -Maximize your health for the rest of your life Helping you to achieve all three of the above results is my ultimate mission in life. Why am I the one writing this book? My best friend in high ...
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The purpose of this book is to educate you on the miraculous regenerative therapies NOW available to everyone! Why would you care? Because, if you or someone you love has been suffering with sore, aching joints... an aching back... or stiff shoulders there is now a solution to: -Get you out of pain -Regain your health and vitality -Maximize your health for the rest of your life Helping you to achieve all three of the above results is my ultimate mission in life. Why am I the one writing this book? My best friend in high school started out as a bitter rival for the cross-town junior high. When we graduated to high school, we became fast friends. He was an obsessed crazy man on the field. Hitting anything and everything that was unfortunate enough to be carrying the football. He played fullback as well and shared just as much punishment on would be defenders as he did when the roles were reversed! I, however, was a late bloomer. While I was tall, at 6'4" I only weighed 195lbs soaking wet. I would ultimately walk-on to the football team at Vanderbilt University and earned a scholarship after my first semester. My friend was laser focused on being the best he could possibly be at football. He wanted to be legendary. That puts a lot of pressure on an eighteen-year-old kid! He would go on to be team captain in the Cotton Bowl and earned first team all-freshman honors in the SWC. As always, I lagged behind and earned 2nd team all SEC at Vanderbilt my Junior year. The events that transpired the year before that are what ultimately propelled me into the profession I am in today. It was our sophomore year. He had suffered an ankle injury and was doing everything he could to get back to playing at a level he expected of himself. We always said that "once you get a bad wheel... it's hard to get back to 100%". That was holding true in his case. One night he was out with friends and decided to call it a night early. This was definitely NOT like him! He proceeded to go back to the alumni's house where he was staying and made the decision to break into their truck and shoot himself with the 22 pistol locked in the glove compartment. This decision changed the trajectory of my life every day since. The WHAT Ifs drive you crazy. What if I had been with him that night? What if he had never injured his ankle? What if he had never had any concussions? When the movie, Concussion, with Will Smith, came out in 2015 I wasn't excited to watch it. I had gone on to play twelve years of professional football after college. It was like I was carrying the torch for my friend who wasn't able to play anymore. When I finally did watch the movie, it worried me... and made me mad. Did my friend suffer from the clouded judgement that multiple concussions and CTE can cause? If there had been a way for him to heal form his ankle injury faster, such as stem cells or other regenerative therapies, would he have still been as down as he obviously had been? The final straw happened about 6 months ago. A former college teammate of mine from Vanderbilt suddenly started offering up all his football memorabilia on Facebook. He wasn't selling it. He was giving it away! Even his old high school photos of him in uniform were up for grabs along with some CFL gear too. Fearing the worst, I called him immediately and even HE admitted that he couldn't think clearly and was forgetting a lot of things. He and his wife would sit down to watch a show and she would remind him they had seen it before but he had no memory of it whatsoever. I knew I had to act. I started by researching everything I could about concussions and CTE. This lead me to writing the book HEAD GAMES: Concussions & CTE, Where do we go from Here? I offered it up as a way to help the warriors on the field from the past and today. I am honored to be a part of the Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund and the After the Impact Fund which support retired pro football players as well as Veterans suffering with P
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