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A Sports Doctor Treats Injuries on the Football Field

Sports doctor Rob Huizenga, team doctor to the Los Angeles Raiders for seven years. He is a past president of the National Football League Physicians' Association and has written for "Sports Illustrated" and other publications. His book about his time in the NFL is "'You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise': A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team."

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Other segments from the episode on December 8, 1994

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 8, 1994: Interview with Jim Grimsley; Interview with Rob Huizenga; Review of Tom Petty's album "Wildflowers."
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Writer and playwright Jim Grimsley

Grimsley is a writer-in-residence at the 7 Stages Theater in Atlanta, and the winner of Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright in 1988. His first novel is "Winter Birds," about an eight-year-old hemophiliac in a poor family who witnesses violent fight between his parents on Thanksgiving. Grimsley says the book is "autobiographical, but not an autobiography." He also has been HIV positive for 14 years, making him one of the longest survivors of the virus.

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Bob Ojeda: Pitching Through The Pain.

Over the course of his 14-year career as a pitcher, Bob Ojeda threw more than 1,000 strikeouts and countless pitches across the plate. During that entire time, the lefty's pitching arm hurt. "The act itself is sort of violent and completely unnatural," he says. "I think most pitchers certainly feel a level of pain."

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Brain Injuries Haunt Football Players Years Later.

Chris Nowinski has made a crusade of fighting head injuries in football. The Harvard-educated former pro wrestler had to leave the ring after suffering multiple concussions. He now educates others — including the NFL — on what head injuries can do to players' brains years later.

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A Devastating Fall Couldn't Keep This Rodeo 'Rider' Off Wild Horses

In 2016, Brady Jandreau was thrown from a horse while riding in a rodeo. The horse stepped on the Lakota cowboy's head, crushing his skull.

Doctors told him that he wouldn't ride again — and he considered giving it up — but couldn't. "I knew what I had to do and I knew what I was going to do," Jandreau says. "The rest was up to faith and my connection with the animal."

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