Stuart Sports Medicine
- Phone: 09 438 8207 ext 2
- Email:
- Healthlink/EDI: stuartsm
Dr Caroline Stuart is a Sport and Exercise Physician, and is also vocationally trained in Urgent Care. She is excited to return to her home city Whangārei to open Stuart Sports Medicine after completing her Sport & Exercise Physician training at Axis Sports Medicine Specialists and High Performance Sport New Zealand.
Caroline is particularly passionate about women’s health and female athletes and enjoys delivering high quality care and empowering her patients to improve their outcomes through exercise.
What is Sports Medicine?
Sports Medicine is the medical specialty that includes the treatment and prevention of sport- and exercise-related injuries, the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal injury (due to overuse or trauma) and the prescription of exercise programmes to manage musculoskeletal pain and medical conditions such as osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and diabetes.
Referral Process
Sport and Exercise Physicians are recognised specialists by ACC and most major insurance companies. Your GP, physiotherapist or other ACC-approved practitioner needs to refer you to be seen. Your treatment will usually be fully funded and there is no co-payment or ACC surcharge.
Referral Expectations
Your GP, physiotherapist or other ACC-approved practitioner needs to refer you to be seen. Please include the ACC45 number, date of injury (or private insurer details) and current contact details for your patient, along with a brief description of their problem or your clinical question or concern. It is useful to include any imaging results (and which imaging provider was used) in your referral.
Stuart Sports Medicine is a Careway approved provider, an Affiliated Provider to Southern Cross and a First Choice provider for NIB.
Charges
Sport and Exercise Physicians are recognised specialists by ACC and most major insurance companies. Your treatment will usually be fully funded and there is no co-payment or ACC surcharge. If you are not covered by ACC or private insurance, please contact us to discuss fees for your care.
Disability Assistance
Wheelchair access, Mobility parking space, Wheelchair accessible toilet, A longer appointment time
Additional Details
Face to face / Kanohi ki te Kanohi, Online / virtual / app, Speak with women / wahine, Child / Tamariki friendly, LGBTQIA+ friendly
Parking
Free parking is available. Mobility and Injury Parking is available in front of the clinic, further parking can be found behind the clinic building.
Meet our Sport & Exercise Physician
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Dr Caroline Stuart
Dr Caroline Stuart
Dr Caroline Stuart is a Sport and Exercise Physician, and is also vocationally trained in Urgent Care. She is excited to return to her home city Whangarei after completing her Sport & Exercise Physician training at Axis Sports Medicine Specialists and High Performance Sport New Zealand. She was a member of the core medical team at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games and travelled to the Tokyo Olympics with the NZ Sailing team. Since graduating from the University of Auckland Medical School in 2008 she completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Medicine with merit in 2014 and her Urgent Care specialist fellowship in 2020. She has published research in sports-related concussion.
Caroline has worked with a wide range of teams and sports including Black Sticks Women’s hockey at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Olympic Doctor for the NZ Sailing team in 2021, Lead Tournament Physician for the 2019 ASB Classic Women’s Tennis tournament, and Medical Director for Canoe Racing New Zealand and the 2020 Rotorua Half Ironman. She has also cared for the Great Britain and Black Sticks hockey teams, Black Ferns Women’s Rugby, Auckland Mitre 10 Cup Men’s Rugby, Auckland Farah Palmer Cup Women’s Rugby, NZ Warriors Reserves, Roosters NRL 9s, NZ Women’s and Breakers Basketball and the New Zealand Surf Life Saving Team.
Previously an elite hockey player she spent nearly 15 years in New Zealand Hockey age-group and Black Sticks Squads, played nine seasons of New Zealand Hockey League and one in the English Hockey League, giving her a unique understanding of athlete’s needs. A mother of two young boys, Caroline is passionate about women’s health and female athletes and enjoys delivering high quality care and empowering her patients to improve their outcomes through exercise.
Frequently Asked Questions
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They are a specialist medical practitioner with expertise in general medicine, orthopaedics, radiology and rehabilitation plus allied sport sciences including nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology and sports psychology. They have expertise in:
- Providing an accurate diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries and sports-related injuries such as concussion.
- Addressing the causes, treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries and medical problems related to physical activity and sport.
- Promotion of health for all stages of life through the appropriate use of exercise and physical activity.
- Safe and effective use of physical activity in treating musculoskeletal injuries and many chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, mental illness and cancer.
- Sport and exercise issues with adolescents, younger people, pregnancy and those with a disability.
- The appropriate use of medications and supplements in sport.
- Leadership for multidisciplinary teams and organisations dealing with athletes and those wishing to exercise.
They have extensive experience looking after elite athletes and apply these principles to the management of all patients, whether they are recreational athletes, manual workers or those with chronic diseases simply wanting to safely increase their activity levels.
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Sport and Exercise Physicians are recognised specialists by ACC and most major insurance companies. Your GP, physiotherapist or other ACC-approved practitioner needs to refer you to be seen. Your treatment will usually be fully funded and there is no co-payment or ACC surcharge.