Services
Dr Compton offers specialist sports and exercise medicine care for all ages.
Dr Compton has a special interest in
- Endurance sport and overuse injuries
- Stress fractures
- Relative energy deficiency in sport
- Menstrual disturbance in athletes (including amenorrhoea)
- Dance Medicine
- 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
Other services:
- 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
- Collaboration with health providers including other medical practitioners and allied health professionals