Patients with conditions as stated below might benefit from seeing a sports physician:
Acute or chronic musculoskeletal conditions:
- Fractures (simple, closed and non-displaced that do not require surgery)
- Ligament sprains or tendon disorders
- Muscular strains
- Other joint or muscle
- Costochondritis
- Bursitis, tendinopathy, tenosynovitis
- Common fibrocartilage injuries such as labral and meniscal tears
- Dislocations (e.g., shoulder)
- Nerve entrapment syndromes, radiculopathy, sciatica
- Apophysitis (e.g., Osgood-Schlatter disease)
- Osteochondroses/ aseptic necrosis
- Osteoarthritis/crystalline-induced arthritis (e.g., gout)
- Metabolic bone disease (osteoporosis)
- Acute and chronic low back pain
- Foot conditions
- Hallux valgus (bunions)
- Plantar fasciitis
- Morton's neuroma
- Overuse syndromes
- Rotator cuff impingement
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
Advice and other services:
- Weight management
- Dietary counselling
- Exercise prescription
- Performance enhancement
For patients that require procedures as stated below,
they would need to see a sports physician or one of our allied health team members:
- Procedures
- Joint aspiration (arthrocentesis)
- Joint injection
- Common injections for bursitis/ tendinopathy
- Strapping and taping
- Ankle taping
- Splinting
- Plaster and fiberglass casts
- Functional rehabilitation
- Prescription of home exercise programs
- Prescription of physical therapy
- Surgical preparation and post-operative rehabilitation