Sport & Exercise Medicine Physician
MBChB (UFS, RSA), DipSEM(Bath, UK) FACSP
OPSMC since 2006

Dr Neels du Toit achieved his primary medical qualification in 1997 from the University of the Freestate, South Africa. He then completed a diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine from Bath University, UK. He worked as a Sports Physician registrar at the Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre and joined Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in 2006. Neels completed his specialist Sports Physician fellowship from the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 2008.

Neels has an interest in general sports medicine and treats recreational and elite athletes of all ages with sports injuries and sports related medical problems.

He has a specialist interest in tendon pathology and has done extensive research in the area of tendon neovascularity associated with tendinopathy.

He also has a specialist interest in chronic back, groin and neck pain. He performs regular spinal diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for chronic spinal and groin pain.

Qualifications:

• MBChB (UFS, RSA)
• Diploma in Sport and Exercise Medicine (Bath, UK)
• Fellow Australasian College of Sports Physicians (FACSP)
• International Spinal Interventional Society lumbar skills course

Involvement with Teams and Associations:

• Melbourne Storm Rugby League Club 2006 - 2009
• Queensland Rugby u/19
• Queensland A Rugby Union
• Brisbane Bullets Basketball

Associations

• Australasian College of Sports Physicians
• International Spinal Interventional Society

Papers published:

• "Diagnostic accuracy of power Doppler ultrasound in patients with chronic tennis elbow"
  - British Journal of Sports Medicine, accepted for publication: February 2008
• "An audit of clinically relevant abnormal laboratory parameters investigating athletes with persistent symptoms of fatigue"
  - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, accepted for publication: January 2007