Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfarth

Dr Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfarth is the club doctor at Bayern Munich and is a world leader in the treatment of sports injuries. He has treated many footballers including Jürgen Klinsmann^[1], Ronaldo and Jonathan Woodgate^[2] and other sportsmen and women such as Paula Radcliffe ^[3] Kelly Holmes ^[4] and Maurice Greene ^[5].

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He helped cure Michael Owen's hamstring problems in time to play at the Euro 2000 tournament^[6] and has also helped Owen's Liverpool F.C. and England colleague, Steven Gerrard ^[7] and Harry Kewell ^[8] .

Darren Gough ^[9] and Alex Tudor ^[10], Essex cricketers, have benefited from the German doctor's pioneering treatments.

José María Olazábal ^[11] , the 1994 US Masters golf champion was suffering from the crippling effects of rheumatoid arthritis when he visited Muller-Wolfhart but was able to win at Augusta again in 1999.

Rugby World Cup winner Will Greenwood ^[12] 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.

Many of the German doctor's treatments are controversial, including using injections of a substance called Hylart^[13], 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 in to patients.

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