Head of Sports Science & Sports Medicine at Cricket Australia

Alex has years of experience working at the highest level of national cricket. He is the Head of Sports Science & Sports Medicine at Cricket Australia as well as a Adjunct Associate Professor at La Trobe University. Through his experience working at the elite sporting level, he has become a leading expert in lumbar bone stress injuries.

In this Sports MAP Masterclass Alex takes viewers through his extensive knowledge and experience in managing lumbar bone stress injuries covering topics that include:

• Key anatomy factors
• Bone stress continuum
• Subjective assessment keys
• Risk factors of age
• Objective assessments
• Extension in standing
• Quadrant test
• Palpation
• Imaging
• 3 Management stages
• Running prescription
• Assessing sport technique
• Hypomobility in the thoracic spine
• Return to play considerations

Titled Sports Physiotherapist & Director at Grand Slam Physiotherapy

Belinda is an Olympic Sports Physiotherapist who has worked as a Physiotherapist with Professional Tennis for over 10 years. Initially working with Tennis Australia then after 6 years of full time work with the WTA, working at tennis events globally including Grand Slams, Belinda also worked at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Belinda now works at Grand Slam Physiotherapy, a Physiotherapy clinic in Geelong and Torquay, Victoria with her husband Ben and continues to work as a Physiotherapist with the WTA.

In this Sports MAP Masterclass Belinda takes viewers through her extensive knowledge and experience on managing rotator cuff injuries in tennis, covering topics that include:

• Epidemiology
• Impingement
• Posterior instability
• Objective assessment
• Active range of motion
• Symptom modification techniques
• Scapular assessment
• Manual muscle testing
• Palpation
• Manual therapy
• Rehabilitation phases
• Strength progressions
• Sports specific rehabilitation
• Load progressions

APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist

David completed a post graduate Masters In Sports Physiotherapy and has a special interest in lower limb rehabilitation (hip, knee, and ankle), tendon pathologies, and shoulder injuries.

Working with basketball teams and players remains a core focus of David's work, and he has previously developed return to training rehab progressions, injury prevention and screening programs. As part of his varied sports coverage experience, David has worked with :
- Australian Boomers mens national basketball team
- Sydney Kings NBL
- Sydney University Flames WNBL
- Netball NSW teams
- Rowing Australia (bronze provider)

In this Sports MAP Masterclass David takes viewers through his extensive knowledge and experience on managing lateral ankle sprains in sport, covering topics that include:

• The mechanism of the injury
• Key subjective clues
• Differential diagnosis
• Acute associated pathologies of inversion ankle injuries
• Lateral ligament assessment
• David's detailed rehabilitation approach and stages
• Regaining ankle dorsiflexion
• Objective strength and functional assessment
• The relationship of hip strength and ankle injuries
• Incorporating ball skills into rehabilitation
• Extensive rehabilitation stage exercises
• Risk reduction of recurrent ankle sprains

Specialist Sports Physiotherapist and Senior Research Fellow

Andrea completed a PhD on risk factors for hip/groin pain in professional male football players in 2018. Worked for 4.5 years as Senior Physiotherapist at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar and worked for 18 years at Australian Institute of Sport.

In this Sports MAP Masterclass Andrea guides us through her careful management process of these patients presenting with complex hip and groin pain. Some of the topics she covers include;

• Epidemiology of hip/groin injuries
• FAI Syndrome
• The International Hip related Research Network
• Consensus statement recommendations
• Physical capacity measures
• Acetabular dysplasia
• Activation exercises
• Trunk & pelvic activation
• Assessing lateral weight shift
• Early rehabilitation isometrics
• Hip strength
• Rehabilitation stages
• Retraining the sagittal & coronal planes
• Sports specific movements

Concussion Clinic Physiotherapist - Epworth & Physio at St Kilda Football Club

Laura's experience working with the St Kilda Football Club and within the Epworth Hospital's Concussion Clinic has given her invaluable knowledge and experience in rehabilitating athletes back from concussions.

In this Sports MAP Masterclass Laura guides us through her careful management process of these patients presenting with concussion symptoms. Some of the topics she covers include;

• Identifying a concussed athlete
• Concussion pathology
• Acute clinical features
• Concussion assessment
• Vestibular / ocular-motor screening (VOMS)
• Convergence retraining
• Ocular rehabilitation
• Return to physical activity and training
• Return to sport progressions
• Precautions in concussion rehabilitation

Josh and Mark are both recognised as experts in the diagnosis and management of hip and groin conditions. Dr Heerey is a physiotherapist and Hip Osteoarthritis Research and Development Lead at La Trobe University’s Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre.

As an APA Sports Physiotherapist, Mark has a a strong passion for treating sporting injurie and outside of his work at Complete Sports Care, he has worked within the elite sporting industry. His interest in athletic hip and groin injuries drove him to complete a PhD where he investigated lower limb biomechanics in athletic patients with hip pain.

In this Sports MAP Masterclass Josh and Mark guide viewers through their diagnosis and management of the painful hip, covering many areas including;

• Intra articular hip conditions
• Key subjective features
• The influence of age
• Imaging
• Objective assessments
• Hip assessment
• Lateral hip pain assessment
• Hip strength assessment
• Rehabilitation stages
• Return to running

Associate Professor at Monash University, physiotherapist and clinical researcher.

Peter's passion and expertise is managing patients with long term tendon pain. Aside from his clinical work Peter works as an Associate Professor at Monash University where he leads various tendinopathy research projects and supervises PhD and MSc students. He regularly presents at conferences and seminars, teaching other clinicians about tendinopathy management. He loves teaching and the opportunity it provides to significantly shift clinicians’ thinking and management of tendinopathy patients.

In this Sports MAP Masterclass Peter guides us through his knowledge and experience in managing proximal hamstring tendinopathy within athletes. Some of the topics he covers include;

• Tendon mechanics
• Hamstring function
• Biomechanics and pathomechanics
• Clinical assessment
• Key subjective factors
• Pain behaviour
• Load tests
• Palpation techniques
• Neurodynamic assessment
• Rehabilitation phases
• Progressive exercise loading
• Loading into hip flexion

Peter is the clinical director at completesportscare.com.au

He also has more amazing resources and content at tendinopathyrehab.com

National Head of Athletic Performance at Rugby Australia.

Dean is a highly experienced elite sports performance professional, with the rare combination of coaching and co-ordination skills. Dean has used these skills to enhance the performance of individuals and teams in Olympic and professional sports across many countries.

In this Masterclass Dean guides us through his extensive experience with assessing and aiding athletes with running technique and hamstring functionality. Some of the topics covered include;

• Dean's approach to hamstring injuries
• Training running technique
• Assessing running technique
• Common faults in technique
• Flexibility
• Hamstring strength
• The importance of ankle stiffness
• The role of the calf in the running cycle
• Coaching hip control
• Coaching running drills
• Injury rehabilitation
• Return to running

Dean has some amazing material on offer at his personal website