Sports and Medicine

You are required to arrive at the game venue earlier than everyone else to prepare set up your things and prepare the drinks. Prior to that ...

I have been treating asthmatic elite athletes with Montelukast ( Singulair ) for at least 4 years as a single monotherapy drug. Most of the...

Bob (not his real name) is an elite level hockey player who sustained a right sided groin injury during a match 2 weeks ago. His pain was sp...

The team after training.

Mohamed is a 24 yrs old talented ex-junior hockey player who has tight painful calf muscles towards the 2nd half of every match but he noted...

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...