Sports and Medicine

Mr Tan is an ardent badminton player who plays once a week for 1 to 2 hours in the St John's Institution hall (enclosed and no air-cond...

Simon (not his real name) was playing hockey 3 days earlier when he decided do hit a slapshot across a longer distance during a training mat...

Three Malaysian national shooters was tested positive for propranolol in March during a local Competition (President Ally T.H. Ong Trophy)...

Australia and Malaysia have reached the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia on the 11th May 2007. Malaysia, in super...

Mr Tan saw me and thought he'd show me his left leg. "Doc, I've had this since I was 10 yrs old. I was hit by a book and the wh...

I remember treating 4 Korean women recreational athletes in the National Sports Institute a few years ago. They used to 'train' hard...

A martial arts elite athlete came with pain in his right thigh after doing rapid high kicks during filming of a movie. He added that his ham...

Oxford UK, 28 November 2005. New guidelines for the resuscitation of adults and children have been published today (28th November) in the i...

A young lady came in this morning with a swollen knee complaining that she could not kneel down and pray as her knee hurts. She informed me ...

Mohamed came in last Saturday holding onto his right elbow with a deformed 'collar-bone' (see photo) after a fall from his motorbike...

Nike and Apple has come out with a gadget and software which gives athletes another excuse to run. The Sport Kit2 allows your Nike+ shoe to...

A futsal player came in walking this morning. He showed me his swollen right leg and I thought it was just a contusion (soft tissue injury)....

The Perak Sports Council and Ipoh Hospital will be hosting the National Sports Science and Sports Medicine Conference 2007 in collaboration ...

Mr Lim came in walking on his heel with a painful and swollen base of the right big toe (see photo) yesterday. He could not remember having ...

The local council is going to get a complaint from this patient. He was walking back from 'Mamak' (a spicy, not so fancy, local fast...

Josiah Ng, who currently ranks 7th in the world suffered a hip contusion after hitting the training motor-pace bike on the 22nd March 2007. ...

Chris is a 16 years old club badminton player who fell on his right palm 6 weeks ago while playing singles competition. He tried to play in ...

Ms Wang, a young lady executive shuffled slowly into my clinic. "I think I sprained my right ankle on the treadmill 2 days ago", s...

Athletes with osteoarthritis of the knee joint often suffer from recurrent pain and swelling of the joints after intensive running and jumpi...

Read that the organisers are giving attractive offers for the F1 Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang. Offers are valid until 31st March 2007. Let...