“The wall won.”
Greg Shepard, a retired minor-leaguer from Chicago White Sox, recalls the night 2000 when he crashed into the left field wall as he tried to catch a fly ball.
Most people would do exactly what his wife implored him to — rush to an Emergency Room when he woke the next morning paralysed. “I couldn’t lift my body out of bed, turn my head, or move my right arm,”He says. Shepard, not.
“I told her, ‘Open the telephone book and find me a chiropractor.'”
That was the turning point in his life that he didn’t know.
Shepard was so afraid “losing my job”Can you relate to a long absence from the disabled list? — that he chose to keep that same. chiropractorEven after his initial consultation with a neck-and spine surgeon, his team recommended that he undergo surgery to correct the injuries to his neck from the collision. “Once he set my occiput back into place, my arm started working. A few days later, I could turn my head and fully look at the pitcher again. I was amazed.”
After that, he never missed a single game.
One reason is that he knows. “occiput”Refers to the back of the neck. Shepard, who has spent years coaching and motivational speaking after his baseball career ended, is now pursuing a dream that he had been pursuing since childhood: He is a huge supporter of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress and is joining other NFL stars like Jerry Rice.
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