Dr Jacob Jewson

Dr Jacob Jewson has followed his passion for sport and exercise medicine since graduating from his medical degree in 2015. While working as a junior doctor at the Alfred Hospital, Jacob also worked for the Western Bulldogs AFLW and Footscray VFL teams. In 2019, he moved to Sydney for his first year of registrar training and worked in a variety of sports, including touring with the Young Socceroos. Jacob moved back to Melbourne in 2020, after sorely missing footy for 12 months, and started working with the Demons in the AFL in 2021.

Jacob was a founding member of the Sport and Exercise Medicine Students’ Association and has completed an honours degree in medical science where he investigated the relationship between metabolic disease and musculoskeletal pain, an area which he remains very interested in. He continues to be involved in various research projects including the use of smartphone technologies to detect arrhythmias in athletes.

Jacob is keen to help all patients of all abilities achieve their goals, whether it be through managing acute or chronic injuries to facilitate sport and exercise, or through using exercise as prevention/treatment of chronic disease.

• Team Doctor – Melbourne Demons AFL, 2021-present
• Event Doctor – Melbourne Summer Series (Tennis), 2022
• Event Doctor – Great Southern Endurance Run, 2021
• Team Doctor – Footscray VFL, 2017-2018 and 2020
• Team Doctor – Footscray VFL, 2017-2018 and 2020-present
• Touring Doctor – Young Socceroos, AFC Qualifiers (Taiwan), 2019
• Gameday Away Team Doctor – Sydney FC W-League, 2019
• Tournament Team Doctor – Samoa National Team, NRL 9s (Sydney), 2019
• Event Doctor – Great Northern Walk (Central Coast), 2019
• Gameday Doctor – Shore School Rugby Union and Soccer (Sydney), 2019
• Tournament Doctor – FFA National Talent Competition (Canberra), 2019
• Tournament Doctor – Australian Schools Rugby Union National Championships (Sydney), 2019
• Event Doctor – Bay to Bay Half Marathon (Gosford), 2019
• Event Doctor – Ice Hockey Classic Tours: USA vs Canada (Sydney), 2019
• Team Doctor – Balmain Tigers Junior Representatives Rugby League (Sydney), 2019
• Club Doctor – University Blues FC (Melbourne), 2016-2017
• Team Doctor – Western Bulldogs AFLW, 2016-2017
• Secretary and Founding Member – Sport and Exercise Medicine Students’ Association (SEMSA), 2016-2017

Podium presentations

• Is Achilles tendon and musculoskeletal pain more prevalent in women with PCOS and does moxonidine reduce symptoms?, ACSEP Scientific Conference, 2020
• Football-related injury deaths in Australia: A review of historical media reports, ACSEP Scientific Conference, 2020
• Putting the “smart” into smartphones, ACSEP Registrar Conference, 2020
• The sympathetic nervous system and metabolic disease in Achilles tendinopathy, ACSEP Registrar Conference, 2019
• Musculoskeletal and Achilles tendon symptoms in women with PCOS, SMA Conference, 2018
• The sympathetic Achilles tendon: Does moxonidine reduce Achilles tendon symptoms?, SMA Conference, 2018
• The forgiving parathyroid gland, S. Rosengarten Surgical Trainee Research Prize (Alfred Hospital), 2017
• The sympathetic nervous system and insulin resistance in tendinopathy, St George Shoulder Conference, 2016
• Pain duration is associated with increased muscle sympathetic nerve activity in patients with Achilles tendinopathy, SMA Conference, 2015

Poster presentations

• Football-related injury deaths in Australia: A comprehensive review of media reports, SMA Conference, 2019
• The sympathetic nervous system and tendinopathy: A systematic review, Matrix Biology Society Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting, 2014

Workshops

• Gameday emergencies, SEMSA Annual Conference: SEM18, 2018