Even though he has not announced his retirement as an active boxer, all-time great Roy Jones is seeking treatment from a Pennsylvania chiropractor for issues related to his balance. In a brief but troubling video interview shown on Pennsylvania television station WTAE, Jones attributes his difficulties to taking too many punches. Loss of balance is a symptom of damage from too many blows to the head, and Jones, as boxing fans know, suffered hard KOs in losses to Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson. "I started having to work to keep my balance," says Jones on a video. "For the last four or five years, I had been looking for something or somebody that could work on the reversal that the effects that the punches have on the brain." In the video, Jones seems to be happy with the treatments he is receiving.

Boxingtalk is hopeful the treatments will restore Jones' balance, but this doctor does not treat the brain itself. Before this Pennsylvania doctor is called a miracle worker and other boxers rush out for his services, please remember he is not a neurologist, he is a CHIROPRACTOR and that a chiropractors' work is to manipulate the spine with their hands so as to realign the vertebrae and relieve the pressure on the nerves. Any claims of reversal of brain damage must be studied very carefully by medical experts before claims of the ability to reverse brain injuries is substantiated. 

The news story, with Jones' admissions, casts severe doubts on whether the great Roy Jones, who has nothing left to accomplish in the sport, should be licensed to continue boxing.

video: www.wtae.com/sports/26819931/detail.html