Sally Child

B Pod(Hons), Master of Sports Medicine

M T

BIO

Sally joined the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre team in 2001 and is currently head of the Allied Health department. Sally completed her Master of Sports Medicine (by Research) at the University of Melbourne in 2010. Her research focused on Achilles tendinopathy in running athletes. Her main findings were published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. As a result of her research Sally has a special interest in the treatment of Achilles tendinopathy in both elite and recreational athletes.

Sally’s practice interests also include lower limb biomechanics and footwear technology. She has a particular interest in Australian Rules Football, track and field athletics, recreational running and walking and the treatment of children. Sally has worked with a number of sporting teams and organisations and has been the Podiatrist for the Richmond Football Club since 2001. More recently she has started work with the Richmond AFLW team. Sally’s personal sporting background is track and field athletics for which she represented Victoria as a junior. She ran the New York Marthon in 2014 and now enjoys recreational running, hiking, pilates and running onto the field as trainer for her daughter's AFL team.
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SPECIALIST AREAS

Biomechanical assessment and footwear technology

Children and adolescent sports injuries

Achilles tendinopathy and other lower limb MSK injuries

2020 – Present


Podiatrist

Richmond AFLW Team

Australia

2008 – Present


Podiatrist

Vixen’s Netball Team

Australia

2005 – Present


Podiatrist

ME Physio

Australia

2001 – Present


Medical Officer

Australian Ballet School

Australia

2001 – Present


Podiatrist

Richmond Football Club

Australia

2001 – Present


Podiatrist

OPSMC

Australia

2000 – 2001


Podiatrist

Perth Wildcats Baseball

Australia

2001 – 2010


Podiatrist

Bushrangers Cricket Team

Australia

2001 – 2005


Podiatrist

PGA Tour

Australia

2000 – 2001


Podiatrist

Western Sports Care

Australia

2000 – 2001


Podiatrist

AIS Hockey Squad

Australia

1999


Podiatrist

Caulfield Hospital

Australia

2011


Master of Sports Medicine

University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

1999


Bachelor of Podiatry (Honours)

La Trobe University

Melbourne, Australia

PUBLICATIONS

“Mechanical Properties of the Achilles Tendon Aponeurosis Are Altered in Athletes with Achilles Tendinopathy”

The American Journal of Sports Medicine 2010, Vol, 38, No. 9, 1885-1893

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“Sally has presented at multiple Sports Medicine Australia and APodA conferences”

2001 - Present

AWARDS

Young Investigator’s award

Victorian Podiatry Conference
2000

The effect of two different foot orthoses, flexible and rigid, on ground reaction forces during running

Podiatry Honours Thesis
1998

Tendon-aponeurosis strain and clinical features of runners with and without Achilles tendinopathy

MSM Thesis
2010

Affiliations

“Richmond Football Club”

AFL and AFLW

“Vixen's Netball Team”
“Australian Ballet School and Company”

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