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Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt


Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt (born 12 August 1942 in Leerhafe, today part of Wittmund, East Frisia) is the Germany national football team doctor and former club doctor of Bayern Munich. He was a club doctor for the club between 1 April 1977 and 16 April 2015. He resigned after the medical staff was blamed after a 3–1 loss to Porto in a UEFA Champions League match.

Many of the German doctor's treatments are controversial, including using injections of a substance called Hyalart, 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 Actovegin into patients.

Müller-Wohlfahrt's use of homeopathic medicine to treat players is also controversial.

He has treated many footballers including Jürgen Klinsmann,Ronaldo and Jonathan Woodgate and other sportsmen and women such as Paula Radcliffe Kelly Holmes,Maurice Greene and Usain Bolt.

He helped cure Michael Owen's hamstring problems in time to play at the Euro 2000 tournament and has also helped Owen's Liverpool F.C. and England colleague, Steven Gerrard and Harry Kewell.Darren Gough and Alex Tudor, 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


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