Services

Dr Compton offers specialist sports and exercise medicine care for all ages, including consultation and other services.

Dr Compton has a special interest in

Endurance sport, overuse injuries, stress fractures and relative energy deficiency syndrome (including amenorrhoea in athletes).
Paediatric and adolescent sports medicine
Management of medical conditions affecting exercise
Exercise prescription for prevention and management of chronic disease

Consultation services:

Diagnosis and management of acute sports injury, and overuse injury
Diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal pain
Adolescent and paediatric sporting injuries
Female athletes and women’s health including amenorrhoea and menstrual disturbance associated with exercise, pregnancy, exercise through life stages
Concussion assessment and management
Diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions affecting sporting performance (including exercise induced bronchoconstriction, diabetes, exertional headache, fatigue, reduced performance, relative energy deficiency syndrome)
Exercise prescription for prevention and management of medical conditions
Drugs in sport and anti-doping, including medication compliance and supplement use
Advice regarding travel, competition, exercise in extreme weather conditions (such as heat, cold, altitude), jet lag
Pre-exercise medical screening, and athlete medical screening
Workplace injury
Athletes with disabilities
Pre and post operative rehabilitation

Event medical coverage
Sporting team medical coverage
Team travel
Education and professional development (athletes and health professionals)
Medicolegal reports - including work cover and reports for Australian Defence Force Recruiting
Injection therapies - cortisone, PRP, hyaluronic acid i
Collaboration with health providers including other medical practitioners and allied health professionals