Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt (born 12 August 1942 in Leerhafe, today Wittmund) is the club doctor at Bayern Munich and is a world leader in the treatment of sports injuries.

Many of the German doctor's treatments are controversial, including using injections of a substance called Hylart^[1], extracted from the crest of cockerels, which is claimed to help lubricate knee injuries and take away the pain. He has also injected honey or calves' blood into patients.

Contents 1 Players treated 2 Work 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Players treated

He has treated many footballers including Jürgen Klinsmann^[2], Ronaldo and Jonathan Woodgate^[3] and other sportsmen and women such as Paula Radcliffe ^[4] Kelly Holmes ^[5] and Maurice Greene ^[6].

He helped cure Michael Owen's hamstring problems in time to play at the Euro 2000 tournament^[7] and has also helped Owen's Liverpool F.C. and England colleague, Steven Gerrard ^[8] and Harry Kewell ^[9] . Darren Gough ^[10] and Alex Tudor ^[11], Essex cricketers, have benefited from the German doctor's pioneering treatments. On 6 May 2009 it was announced that he was helping Akpo Sodje recover from a longstanding hamstring problem

José María Olazábal ^[12] , the 1994 US Masters golf champion was suffering from the crippling effects of rheumatoid arthritis when he visited Müller-Wohlfahrt but was able to win at Augusta again in 1999.

Rugby World Cup winner Will Greenwood ^[13] is another who has benefited from the doctor's treatment after 8 months with a groin problem. Weeks later he was staking a claim to a recall to the England team.

Even international sportsmen as far away as Australia have sought treatment from Müller-Wohlfahrt - Australian rules footballers Max Rooke and Mark Coughlan were treated for chronic hamstring injuries.^[14]

One of his more unusual treatments was when St Johnstone F.C. striker Peter MacDonald was prescribed goat's blood injections in a bid to cure a recurring hamstring problem.^[15]

[edit] Work

• Mensch, beweg dich!, Zabert Sandmann, ISBN 978-3423340939
• So schützen Sie Ihre Gesundheit, Zabert Sandmann, ISBN 3-932023-528
• So gewinnen Sie mehr Lebenskraft, Zabert Sandmann, ISBN 3-89883-037-3
• Verletzt, was tun?, with Hans-Jürgen Montag, ISBN 3-9806973-1-2
• Besser trainieren!, Zabert Sandmann, ISBN 978-3-89883-170-3

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt in the German National Library catalogue (German)