NFL and the NFL Players Association has retired retired players set up a spiritual care program. Designed to address quality of life issues, which plans to make the retired players and five medical centers neurological experts. NFL Retired Players Association Executive Director George - Martin, said the doctors will assess and treat nervous system diseases that may exist. Medical center to participate in the program are: Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine; New York's Mount - Sinai; Los Angeles, University of Southern California doctors; University of California San Francisco School of Medicine; Washington School of Medicine / Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. "This is a work in progress," Martin said Wednesday. "This is a retired NFL players union, NFL and president of a new beginning of cooperation between offices."
The neurological ex-players will enable the Union vested in retirement plans. Those who have health insurance players will use their own plans to treat. Those who can not afford the cost of treatment of the player may request the NFL players care fund as grants to cover part or all of the cost. "As long as they are still breathing, there are opportunities for treatment and rehabilitation," the former New York Giants defensive end Martin said the plan is to imitate those who used to help veterans discharged from the battlefield approach.
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