Sports Injury Clinic for Top Athletes Opens to the Public

Exercise science clinicians Dr Jeroen Swart and Dr Lee Gordon are among the team that will be will sharing their expertise at the new clinical practice at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA). The team will bring a broad range of experience in sports injury and rehabilitation to the public.

SSISA is home to the UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine. Leading this initiative is Dr Jeroen Swart who recently joined the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine in the Department of Human Biology. Swart’s immediate mission is to ‘reboot’ the Sports Science Institute’s clinical practice and make its expertise available to the broader public. To do this, Swart has corralled a strong team of SSISA doctors: Jason Suter, Sid Allie, Adrian Rotunno, Gabi Prinsloo, Lee Gordon and Mike Kiessig. All are connected to some of the country’s top sports teams: Stormers/Western Province rugby, IPL cricket, cycling team MTN-Qhubeka, Rugby Sevens and AJAX soccer.

There are two initiatives planned in the areas of cardiac and orthopaedic care and rehabilitation. The first is to link up with Dr Nasief van der Schyff’s cardiac rehabilitation programme at Victoria Hospital to implement a public sector rehabilitation service at SSISA. The second initiative of the practice with its broader public interface is the creation of clear career paths for sport and exercise medicine physicians.

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