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Anthony Galea, the Toronto doctor accused of smuggling HGH into the United States, said Monday that he helped Alex Rodriguez rehab his injured hip last year by treating him for inflammation in the injured joint. The New York Times spoke to the surgeon who operated on A-Rod's hip last year and he told the paper that he never gave Rodriguez permission to seek outside treatment for the hip problem, which could, technically speaking, place A-Rod in violation of his contract.
This is likely not the last we'll be hearing of this story. Besides the HGH smuggling charge, Galea is well known in Canada for practicing what's known as blood-spinning, the practice which spins athlete's blood down in a centrifuge to concentrate the growth hormones in blood, supplements them with calcium and enzymes and injects the mixture back into the athlete at the site of an injury to shorten healing time.
It's not technically doping (as far as FanHouse knows, the practice is not banned by MLB whereas some other forms of blood doping are), but because other compounds are added into the blood mixture and then injected into the body it's still in a vague gray area.
That's not to say that Galea treated A-Rod with blood-spinning or by any other sort of illicit method.
But this is baseball, where even the possibility of doping is treated very seriously and Rodriguez has now been linked to Galea twice -- once by authorities who spoke with him after the doctor's arrest and once by the doctor himself.
In any case, there are certainly questions about why an athlete with as high a profile as A-Rod would risk violating his contract to go to Canada and be treated for something as routine as post-surgery inflammation.
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