What is a Sports Physician?
Sports Physicians are specialist medical doctors who are highly trained in the non-surgical management of all musculoskeletal injuries, as well as sports team care. After completing a medical degree at University, Sports Physicians complete 4 years of specialist training governed by the Australasian College of Sports Physicians (ACSP) and are thoroughly examined in their knowledge through both written and clinical examinations.
I have been a director at Premier Orthopaedics since 2005, appreciate all referrals, and will care for all patients to the best of my ability. As a Sports Physician and musculoskeletal specialist, I also treat Workers Compensation patients as well as incidental injuries.
My specific interest areas are tendon injury, children and adolescent injury, shoulder and elbow injury, knee injury, cricket injury, and football injury.
Common Sports Physician Consultations
Foot and Ankle Injury
- Achilles tendinitis
- Making Orthotics
- Plantar fasciitis
- Foot stress fractures
- Recurrent ankle sprain
- Metatarsalgia/ foot pain
- Morton’s neuroma
- Heel pain (children)
Back Pain
- Acute and chronic back pain
- Nerve root pain
- Thoracic back pain/
- Scheuermann' disease (adolescents)
- Chest wall pain
- Stress fractures
Shoulder Pain
- Rotator cuff tears/ tendinitis
- Shoulder dislocation
- Frozen shoulder
- AC Joint sprain
- Shoulder impingement
- Clavicle fracture
Knee, Shin and Calf Pain
- Acute knee injury
- Patella dislocation
- Anterior knee pain/
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Patellofemoral pain
- Calf muscle strain
- Patella tendinitis
- Shin splints
Thigh, Buttock, and Groin Pain
- Hamstring muscle strain
- Adductor injury
- Osteitis pubis/
stress fractures - Hip flexor muscle strain
Elbow, Wrist and Hand Injury
- Medial epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow)
- Elbow dislocation
- Wrist pain
- Metacarpal fractures
- De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
- Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
Professional Expectation
My aim is to provide the best possible service to medical professionals and their patients by providing early and accurate diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal injury, by being accessible for phone enquiries, and providing timely informative written reports for all patient consultations. I would appreciate your consideration of this service.