Dr Tom Cross
Sports Physician
MBBS, FACSP, Dip Child Health
"The role of the Sports Physician is to obtain an early accurate diagnosis and thereafter discuss the best treatment options with the patient.
Sports medicine problems are most commonly injuries to the musculoskeletal system but also may involve medical illnesses that trouble active individuals such as asthma, fatigue, infectious diseases, concussion etc.
Sports medicine patients cover the spectrum of life from very young children to the frail elderly. The patients vary from being sedentary adults who get injured at work or home to full-time elite/professional athletes. |
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| The Sports Physician aims to return the patient to theirformer level of function as soon as practically possible. The Physician should share the patients’ love of sport and exercise and try to enable them to make a safe return to their activity.” |
Dr Tom Cross has practiced sports medicine for the past 10 years and during that time successfully completed 4 years of specialist post-graduate training in sports medicine and gained fellowship to the ACSP (Australasian College of Sports Physicians).
Prior to specializing in sports medicine Dr Cross gained a broad medical experience working as a Resident Doctor for 3 years in the NSW public hospitals, including 1 year specializing in paediatrics at the New Hospital for Children (Westmead) where he gained a Diploma in Child Health.
Dr Cross has broad sports medicine experience caring for recreational athletes (adults and children), musculoskeletal injuries that occur at work or home, elite/professional athletes and also military personnel.
His abbreviated CV includes:
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1997 |
Team Physician for
Manly Rugby League Juniors.
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1998-2000 |
Sydney Swans Football Club: Assistant Team Doctor |
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2000 |
Volunteer Sports Doctor
(Sydney Olympics and Paralympics)
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2001 |
Australian Institute
of Sport, ACT, Fellowship in Sports Medicine.
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2001-2003 |
Consultant in sports medicine to Royal Military College,Duntroon,ACT. |
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2004-2007 |
Consultant in Sports Medicine, Sydney. |
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2005- |
Sydney Swans Football Club: Assistant Team Doctor |
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2005-2007 |
NSW Waratahs Rugby Union: Assistant Team Doctor. |
Other sports medicine coverage includes: ACT Brumbies Rugby, Canberra Vikings Rugby, Wests Tigers Rugby League, Sydney FC Soccer Team Sydney Kings Basketball, Canberra Cannons Basketball, ACT Rams AFL, Australian Swimming Championships, Australian Men’s Water Polo team, Medical Director at Canberra Half Iron Man Triathlon, The Kings School Rugby, San Diego Chargers NFL, Harvard College American Football team, World transplant games, Australian Multi-disability games, Present Medical Director of annual Mothers Day Classic Fun Run and JP Morgan Fun Run.
Dr Cross has several journal publications,
Articles
- Sports injuries in children - Medicine Today
Publications
- Rotator cuff problems in sport.
Medicine Today. 2006 Nov; 7(11): 75-79
- The accuracy of MRI in predicting recovery and recurrence of acute grade one hamstring muscle strains within the same season in Australian Rules football players.
J Sci Med Sport. 2004 Jun; 7(2): 248-58.
- Acute quadriceps muscle strains: magnetic resonance imaging features and prognosis.
Am J Sports Med. 2004 Apr-May; 32(3): 710-19.
- Exposure to diagnostic ionizing radiation in sports medicine: assessing and monitoring the risk.
Clin J Sport Med. 2003 May; 13(3): 164-70.
- "Silent" transverse patellar fracture following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
Arthroscopy. 2001 Nov-Dec; 17(9): 997-9.
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