Found this old Mcgrady article. Fast forward to 2007. http://www.healthtask.com/press-releases.html T-Mac, Magic: Good riddance to a bad back Brian Schmitz Orlando Sentinel October 3, 2002 JACKSONVILLE -- The Magic star who has ben seeing his career flash before his eyes lately has not been Grant Hill. Six weeks ago, Tracy McGrady, scared and confused, wondered whether surgery was the only way to relieve his aching back "I thought maybe I wasn't going to play this season," McGrady revealed Wednesday. "I thought about getting surgery, and that is bad... I'm 23 years old. I couldn't find anybody who could take the pain away." T-Mac's smile and presence at practice means he has found somebody. Magic fans, meet Dr. Mike Gutman of Orlando. Dr. Mike just might have saved the season. He certainly has helped ease everyone's pain inside these franchise walls, which were already close to tumbling with the angst over Hill's left ankle. Tracy said he considered surgery, but three specialist didn't deem it necessary. Not yet, anyway. If the Magic thought McGrady was exaggerating the seriousness, Gutman said, "No, Tracy's not." T-Mac is practicing at full speed after Gutman is the final piece of a rehab puzzle. "Before this, it was real frustrating," McGrady said. 'I hadn't found the answer, but now I feel good." And if McGrady continues feeling good, he'll know that the answer was only about a full-court shot from TD Waterhouse Centre at the Gutman Pain & Accident Center on West Colonial Drive. McGrady has been searching for relief ever since last season began with a wince and ended with a wail. He first started aching in the preseason. He missed three games with back problems in December, then wobbled off after the Magic's playoff roster against the Charlotte Hornets. 'It was so bad, I almost didn't play the first game. I came down after scoring and experienced more pain than I've ever had," he said. "All I could think about was [former Knicks forward] Larry Johnson, how he retired early with a bad back." The agic's season may have been turned around by a 67-year-old who has dealt with other people's pain for 36 years, the last two at his address on West Colonial Drive. Gutman never played much basketball but joked, "I was on the 'B squad' for Miami High's football team." A knee injury ended his career. He has treated the backs of construction workers and weekend golfers, and "people who work on their gardens," he said. Although Gutman says all his patients are "celebrities," McGrady is the first big-name client. "He's the most famous worker's compensation injury I've ever had,' Gutman laughed. McGrady has become best friends with an apparatus in Gutmans office called a vertebral axial decompression, or VAX-D for short. He lies flat on his stomach with a harness contraption around his hips. While he grips handles at the other end, his vertebrae are stretched, relieving the pressure on the nerves in T-Mac's two bulging disks. To help heal the affected tissues, Gutman has McGrady downing six different vitamins, some organic sulfur, a joint formula and a Q-11 co-enzyme. Tracy also drinks tons of water and a concontion of nutrients made from the husks of rice. McGrady has been seeing Gutman four or five times a week since last August after T-Mac's personal trainer, Wayne Hall, saw one of Gutman's TV commercials and called. Gutman said "flare-ups" are possible during the season, but McGrady is now pain free -- and frown free. "Tracy told me his disposition has improved 300 percent" Gutman said. "He's a happy lark." so far, Dr. Mike has cured a major migraine for the Magic.
Everyone jokes about how Patterson is a witch doctor but this dude seriously sounds like he is into some sort of voodoo/witch doctor therapy. Electric acupuncture looks pretty modern and normal compared to downing random crap. This guy seriously reminds of the holistic healer that George goes to in Seinfeld.
