Dr. Scott Xu Cunzhi

Dr. Scott Xu is a board-certified Sport and Exercise Medicine Specialist, practicing at SSMC@Novena. He also holds sports clinics at SSMC@CGH and the High Performance Sport Institute (HPSI), bringing his expertise to a wider range of patients and athletes. 

Currently, Dr. Xu serves as team physician for the National Football Team and the Young Lions football team in the Singapore Premier League. His extensive experience extends to major international sporting events, where he has served as tournament team physician for the World Rugby 7s Series, international WTA and ATP tennis tournaments, and Team Singapore at the SEA Games and Asian Games.

Dr. Xu specialises in the diagnosis and assessment of musculoskeletal injuries, including tendon and ligament sprains, muscle tears, joint overuse, and bone stress injuries. Utilising his extensive experience treating elite-level athletes, Dr. Xu provides customised, patient-centric treatment plans for athletes of all levels, aiming to optimise recovery and performance. He readily uses point-of-care ultrasound to improve diagnostic accuracy of musculoskeletal injuries and to guide further investigations and treatment plans.  He emphasises addressing the root causes of injuries through biomechanical corrections, physical rehabilitation, conditioning, and the correction of training errors. His non-surgical treatment options include, but are not limited to, ultrasound-guided platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections, hyaluronic acid (HA) injections, and steroid injections.