CGH
Opens CSMC's Medical Wing
and Specialist Eye Clinics
Changi
Sports Medicine Centre (CSMC), the biggest
multidisciplinary sports medicine centre in Singapore,
opened a new medical wing on 11 Nov 2005. Dr Vivian
Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth
and Sports officially opened the CSMC Medical Wing as well
as the expanded Specialist Eye Clinics.
CGH Specialist Eye Clinic is a partnership with doctors from
Singapore National Eye Centre to bring in their expertise in
different subspecialties. With the wide spectrum of eye services,
CGH renovated and moved the eye clinics to bigger premises
at our Wards Lobby in Dec 2004.
In 2003, CSMC had about 7000 patient consultations and the
number of patients seen has been increasing steadily. From
Jan 2005 to just Oct 2005, CSMC received about 12500 patients.
This was an increase of more than 70%. To serve our patients
better, CSMC was expanded to provide more gym space and
a new medical wing was added with 4 consultation rooms, a
dietitian room and a treatment room for Extracorporeal Shock
Wave Therapy and diagnostic ultrasound services.
"Sports Medicine and Sports Science used to be services
available only to elite athletes. The integrated Changi Sports
Medicine Centre aims to provide a one-stop service to benefit
a broader segment of our population, including elite and
recreational athletes, disabled athletes, active but non-competitive
individuals, those with medical conditions
that can benefit from exercise, performing artists, and sedentary
individuals who hope to be more active,” said Dr Ben Tan,
Consultant Sports Physician and Head of CSMC.
In conjunction with the opening, CSMC was the first in Singapore
to unveil the Helmas fitness testing system. The Helmas machine
has 8 test stations to assess and electronically record an
individual’s strength, power, aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity,
flexibility, proprioception (position awareness) and agility.
The results are benchmarked against population norms,
identifying areas of weaknesses that the subjects need to
improve on. Besides helping to develop all-round fitness and
hence enhance performance, it also serves to refine the
rehabilitation program for injured or post-operative patients,
and to allow objective and realistic goal setting and monitoring
of progress.
Patients with medical conditions like obesity, diabetes,
hypertension, coronary artery disease, and high cholesterol will
also benefit as the system makes exercise prescription safer
and more accurate for such populations.
The Helmas fitness testing is available to the public at
introductory prices ranging from $30 for 1 station to $115 for
8 stations.
"There are many sedentary individuals with chronic diseases
like diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, coronary artery disease,
stroke, and obesity, who have been instructed by their doctors
to start exercising. Unfortunately, many of them do not know
where to start. The commercial gyms may turn them away
because these gyms may not be equipped or comfortable in
dealing with such individuals. CSMC provides Sports Medicine
support for this large population of individuals. They will benefit
not only from injury management and prevention, but also
from pre-participation screening, exercise testing and
prescription as they are at higher risk of sudden death and
injuries during exercise,” said Dr Ben Tan.
For appointment and enquiries about CSMC’s services, please
call CGH Appointment Centre at
Tel: 6850 3333.
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Sports Medicine Service started as a
weekly sports clinic back
in 2000. CGH introduced Sports Medicine to support the health
needs of an active population as more people exercise regularly,
and exercise plays an increasingly important role in the
management and prevention of many lifestyle diseases.
Changi Sports Medicine Centre started operations at Wards
Lobby, Level 1, in January 2003. It was officially opened
on 12
September 2003 by Mr Lee Yock Suan, then Minister, Prime
Minister’s Office and MP for East Coast GRC. The new
Medical
Wing took 18 weeks of renovation which increased the floor
area from 269 to 671 square metres.
With the tagline: “Recovery and Beyond”, the
team at CSMC not
only helps the individual to recover quickly from sports
injuries
but also to safely return the individual to his or her previous
level of sports. CSMC also gets previously sedentary people
active, in a safe and effective way, thereby preventing and
managing lifestyle diseases.
Staffed by a full complement of sports physicians, sports
orthopaedic surgeons, allied health professionals and sports |
trainers; and equipped
with modern diagnostic technology,
CSMC is able to provide patients with rapid diagnosis and
quality sports rehabilitation for sports injuries and performance
enhancement.
The team at CSMC comprises 4 Sports Physicians, 6 sports
orthopaedic surgeons, 1 Rehabilitation Physician, 1
Endocrinologist, 3 sports physiotherapists, 1 strength and
conditioning coach, 3 clinically-trained sports trainers, 1
podiatrist, 2 dietitians. With our new medical wing and
comprehensively equipped gym, the team offers: |
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Sports Medicine |
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Sports Orthopaedic Surgery |
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Sports Physiotherapy, including Pilates
and water-based
training |
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Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) |
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Podiatry and Foot Orthotics |
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Multidisciplinary Weight Management |
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Gait Analysis and Biomechanical Assessment |
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Pre-participation Screening |
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Exercise Testing and Prescription |
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Sports Events Medical Coverage |
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Anti Doping counselling |
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Cardiac Rehabilitation |
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