Dr Adam Castricum (Sport and Exercise Medicine Specialist)
- Name
- Dr Adam Andrew Castricum
- Qualifications
- FACSP 2008
- MBBS 1998
- Occupation
- Sport and Exercise Medicine Specialist
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Sport and Exercise Medicine
Adam Castricum became a Fellow with the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 2008 after successfully completing 6 years of training in Melbourne and Sydney. He was appointed Chief Medical Officer for Athletics Australia soon after and headed up the medical team for the successful Australian Track and Field team at the 2012 London Olympic Games. In 2014 he joined the excellent medical and conditioning team at Hawthorn Football Club. His professional areas of interest include athletics, all codes of football, alpine skiing, lower limb injuries, exercise prescription, adolescent injuries, fatigue in athletes and exercise induced asthma, on which he completed his Masters Research in 2008. He also performs interventions including ultrasound-guided cortisone and autologous blood injections, extracorporeal shock wave therapy and iontophoresis.
- Affiliated Clinics
- Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre
- Affiliated Organisations
- Australasian College of Sports Physicians (ACSP)
Practice Locations
Melbourne
- Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre
- Address
- 60 Olympic Boulevard
Melbourne VIC 3004
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9420 4300
Publications
- The role of the bronchial provocation challenge tests in the diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in elite swimmers. Br J Sports Med 2010;44:736-40. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18948353 Abstract: The International Olympic Committee-Medical Commission (IOC-MC) accepts a number of bronchial provocation tests for the diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) in elite athletes, none of which have been studied in elite swimmers. With the suggestion of a different pathogenesis involved in the development of EIB in swimmers, there is a possibility that the recommended test for EIB in elite athletes, the eucapnic voluntary hyperpnoea (EVH) challenge, may be missing the diagnosis in elite swimmers.
