8/6/2023 0 Comments Dr farrago auburn maineThe Placebo Chronicles was published by Broadway Books, a division of Random House, in 2005. I have written six books over the years, with NOKI being my latest. (The boxer on the right is former heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder who uses the Cryohelmet). Here is one study done using the Cryohelmet. There are more and more studies showing that cooling the head after a head injury aids in recovery. It has recently been added to the inventory of CVS stores around the country. I also invented the Cryohelmet used by athletes for head injuries as well as migraine sufferers. The website has all the resources and studies showing the benefits of this product. You can see an example in the image below. The Knee Saver and its knock-offs are worn by many major league baseball catchers to take the pressure off their knees when they squat. I am the inventor of a product called the Knee Saver which is currently in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In the picture below you can see where I had to jump into the ring (you are not supposed to do that as a cornerman). My last one involved one of my best friends, Lou Savarese, when he fought Mike Tyson. Over the years I was involved with many big fights. We are all up in arms about football players but no one seems to care about these boxers. This does even mention the brain damage boxers get. There are some bad people, bad contracts, bad gyms, and no one watching over it. There is such purity to the art of boxing but this is negated, in many ways, because of the bad things that go on in the sport. I ended up working with many world champion boxers and saw the true ins and outs of the sport. I worked under the tutelage of Mackie Shilstone. Soon thereafter I was hired by the Houston Boxing Association to work with the fighters with nutrition and strength training. I retired any thoughts of fighting after that. When I turned around he was waiting for me and blasted me with a right hand. I threw a left hook and missed and all I saw were the three ropes. I remember sparring with Sugar Ray Caples and trying to corner him. After graduating from the University of Virginia, I traveled to Houston to turn pro. I actually was an All-American collegiate boxer (I took 3rd) in 1986. I thought I wanted to be a professional boxer. My brother, Matt Farrago, was a former professional boxer in the 80s and 90s. He was one of the hundreds of patients with autism that I cared for as a doctor and the character of NOKI is sort of an amalgam of all of them. It looked exactly like the credits as they scrolled down with the same fonts and centering as you would see on the screen. His mother even brought them in to show me. He would sit down when done and perfectly write the credits of every movie on hundreds of white sheets of paper. Before he could even read (he was about 3 years old), he would watch movies over and over again. I had many patients with autism over the years, even one who was a savant. I can’t tell you why but I liked them and they liked me. The ones that seemed to gravitate to me the most were people with autism. I had patients with cerebral palsy, severe birth defects, and many with Down’s Syndrome. My favorite ones, however, were always the ones with special needs. Did I love every minute of it? Absolutely not! It’s a tough job and there can be some tough patients. By the time I retired from practicing medicine, I had seen more than 140,000 patients. My own journey started in medical school and the year was 1990. I recently retired from being a family doctor.
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