Throughout his long and successful NFL career, former Ravens and Browns running back Jamal Lewis was well known for his tough style of play, leaving many opponents battered and bruised, feeling as if they’d tried to tackle a freight train.

But after admitting to spending a significant amount of time in the care of Dr. Anthony Galea, a noted supplier of performance enhancing drugs for athletes in multiple professional sports, the spotlight is shining brightly on Lewis once more, and not in a positive way.

Lewis was quick to emphasize that he never allowed Galea to inject him with any substance, but other athletes have said similar things, only to later rescind those statements after having multiple sources prove otherwise.

There’s certainly no crime in seeking a second opinion, and while at first glance, such a relationship would seem to be problematic for Lewis, at this point, nothing is certain.

“Basically with [Galea], he just gave me second opinions on anything that was going on with my body. I never really trusted team doctors or the team trainers, because they don’t have my best interest at hand. So therefore I had my own doctor. I had my own people that I dealt with in order to give me a second opinion so I can trust and have my best interest at hand.”

“Knees, ankles, joints. Whatever kind of joint pain, muscle, whatever it is you can depend on [Galea] to give you an honest opinion that you might not get at the [team] facility after you just got checked out.”

“I got a concussion. I played 10 games with it [last season]. At the same time, [Galea] was going through his legal thing at the time so I really couldn’t see him. But if I had been able to see him I would have known earlier that I had a concussion and I wouldn’t have been playing 10 games.”

– Former Cleveland and Baltimore running back Jamal Lewis

It’s interesting to note that Galea does not have the ability to practice medicine in the United States, making access to his services much more difficult to come by, as the players involved in his practice would have to travel to Canada on a consistent basis to seek treatment.

That said, according to one of Galea’s assistants, the doctor reportedly treated 23 athletes in the US last summer, including 11 players during three trips to Cleveland.

Galea has worked with several other notable athletes, including Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez, and is currently under investigation by the FBI for smuggling and drug charges.

As always, we’ll keep you posted when more information becomes available.

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