Volume 184 - Issue 6
Sports Doctors Australia
Author: Neville R Blomeley
Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): 311. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00254.x
Published online: 20 March 2006
Published online: 20 March 2006
Neville R Blomeley
President, Sports Doctors Australia, and Medical Director, Optima Sports Medicine, 6/66 Station Road, Indooroopilly, QLD 4068. drnbauscareindATbigpond.com
Comment: I would like to draw readers’ attention to a very enthusiastic and active group of sports medicine practitioners that was not mentioned in the editorial by Orchard and Brukner,1 which introduced the Sports Medicine Practice Essentials series.
Sports Doctors Australia comprises general practitioners and others from areas such as orthopaedics, rehabilitation, accident and emergency, and sports dentistry. Virtually all fellows of Sports Doctors Australia (SDrA) have obtained a postgraduate degree in sports medicine from an Australian university (most commonly a masters degree from the University of New South Wales). We are committed to delivering excellent care in all areas of sports medicine to the general public as well as to elite athletes. Because of our wider background in general medicine, we are in an ideal position to provide overall care to teams and individual athletes. Many of our fellows are, or have been, very successful team doctors for national teams. A number of fellows are active in clinical research and have academic appointments with university medical schools.
Our main aim is not to obtain specialist status (as it is for members of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians), but to provide excellence in sports medicine care for athletes at all levels, and to provide sports medicine education to other doctors, medical students and the general public.
References
- Orchard J, Brukner PD. Sport and exercise medicine in Australia [editorial]. Med J Aust 2005; 183: 383. <eMJA full text>
Mild traumatic brain injury and concussion and persisting post‐concussion symptoms: new guidelines to support evidence‐based assessment and management in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Karen M Barlow, Jennie L Ponsford, Alice Theodom, Gill Cowen, Gavin A Davis, Vicki Anderson, Franz E Babl, David Cole, Jennifer Cullen, Stuart R Dalziel, Melinda Fitzgerald, Howard Flavell, Caroline Yates, Rebecca Kimble, John H Olver, Rhonda Orr, Mark Ralfe, Michael Rose, Nick Rushworth, Julia Treleaven, Gary Browne, Nathan Delang, Sarah Harris, Gary Mitchell, Sean Tweedy
Physical activity interventions to prevent and manage type 2 diabetes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a systematic review
Raymond J Kelly, Rona Macniven, Leonid Churilov, Margaret J Morris, David O'Neal, Elif I Ekinci
The economics of a national anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention program for amateur football players: a Markov model analysis
Andrew Ross, Joosup Kim, Marnee McKay, Evangelos Pappas, Natalie Hardaker, Matt Whalan, Kerry Peek
Concussion in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: what is the true epidemiology?
Jonathan Bullen, Trish Hill‐Wall, Elizabeth Thomas, Richard Norman, Gill Cowen
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in Australia: the first three years of the Australian Sports Brain Bank
Catherine M Suter, Andrew J Affleck, Maggie Lee, Alan J Pearce, Linda E Iles, Michael E Buckland