{"id":731249,"date":"2026-06-12T05:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:59:41","slug":"mlb-to-question-dodgers-doctor-after-report-he-supported-conor-mcgregor-therapeutic-ped-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731249\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB to question Dodgers doctor after report he supported Conor McGregor therapeutic PED use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major League Baseball is planning to question Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the executive director of medical services for the Dodgers as well as the Rams, following a report from The New York Times <\/a>on Thursday that he supported the therapeutic use of performance-enhancing drugs for UFC star Conor McGregor during his recovery from a severe leg fracture, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The California Post.<\/p>\n

The MLB inquiry does not constitute an official investigation, the sources said.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.Dr. Neal ElAttrache\u2019s role with the Dodgers is not expected to be impacted. He denied any wrongdoing when reached by The California Post on Thursday. Getty Images<\/p>\n

ElAttrache\u2019s role with the Dodgers is not expected to be impacted.<\/p>\n

ElAttrache denied any wrongdoing when reached by The California Post on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to answering whatever questions they may have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Rams declined a request for comment regarding the situation.<\/p>\n

ElAttrache \u2013\u2013 a renowned sports surgeon who has treated superstar athletes across several sports, as well as Hollywood celebrities, in addition to his duties with the Dodgers and Rams \u2013\u2013 oversaw the surgery to repair the leg that McGregor broke during a fight in 2021, according to The Times\u2019 report<\/a>, then subsequently \u201cwrote a letter supporting McGregor\u2019s application for a special exemption that would have allowed him to use performance-enhancing drugs without facing a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

ElAttrache told The Times that he referred McGregor to specialists in bone healing following his surgery, out of concern that McGregor\u2019s leg would not heal correctly, and \u201cexplained that I don\u2019t prescribe hormone or steroid treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

ElAttrache also confirmed he wrote a letter supporting McGregor\u2019s application for a so-called \u201ctherapeutic exemption\u201d to use otherwise banned substances but only after the consultants he referred McGregor to deemed that such treatment could optimize his chance of making a full and complete recovery.<\/p>\n

\"ConorDr. Neal ElAttrache oversaw the surgery to repair the leg that Conor McGregor (above) broke during a fight in 2021. GC Images<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are acting as if \u2018banned drugs\u2019 are somehow \u2018illegal drugs\u2019 or that they have no legitimate therapeutic use and only have performance enhancement use,\u201d ElAttrache said. \u201cThere are many \u2018banned drugs\u2019 on the list which are necessary to medically treat various conditions which occur in people. That is why a therapeutic use exemption application exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

ElAttrache also told The Times his support was based on medical research.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McGregor\u2019s application for the exemption was not granted, after which the mixed martial arts fighter \u201cquietly withdrew from the U.F.C.\u2019s antidoping program, which meant he was no longer subject to drug testing,\u201d according to The Times.<\/p>\n

Five years removed from the broken leg, there has been speculation in the UFC world that McGregor used performance-enhancing drugs anyway during his recovery and return to the sport. The Times cited two anonymous sources who claimed UFC officials \u201clearned that McGregor had indeed taken banned drugs while outside the [testing] pool.\u201d McGregor received a backdated 18-month suspension from the UFC for violating testing rules last year.<\/p>\n

California Post baseball columnist Dylan Hernandez and football reporter Vincent Bonsignore contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball is planning to question Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the executive director of medical services for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,485,1187,1263,591,85,787],"class_list":["post-731249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}