
Sia Kazantzis
B.Pod, M.SportMed
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BIO
Since completing her Bachelor of Podiatry in 2011, Sia has worked for several years in private practice acrossrural Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne. Sia has clinical interests in sports medicine, and in 2020completed her Master of Sports Medicine through the University of Melbourne. She is highly skilled in allareas of Podiatry and over the years has gained extensive experience in elite and recreational sport, havingfacilitated treatment to athletes from a wide range of sporting codes and national organisations, including AFLFootball and the Australian Ballet.
Sia is passionate about footwear technology and the important role it can play in safe participation in sportand exercise. She provides footwear assessments and recommendations so that her patients’ footwear isbest suited to their specifi c sporting and biomechanical needs. In all areas of practice Sia takes a client-centred and evidence-based approach to treatment and is passionate about helping athletes of all ages andabilities overcome their injuries, return to sport, and achieve their goals.
Sia has a strong recreational sporting background of her own, with interests in many sports including allfootball codes, basketball and long-distance running. In her early sporting career, she sustained several foot-related injuries which played a signifi cant role in her becoming the practitioner she is today. She acts on hersense of community through voluntary work at local sporting events and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in2023. She enjoys working with other health professionals in a multidisciplinary environment to achieve optimaltreatment outcomes for her patients. When she isn’t in the clinic, Sia is part of the education and fi eldoperations teams at Sport Integrity Australia and a research assistant at the University of Melbourne.
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SPECIALIST AREAS

Foot injuries

Rehabilitation
2025 – Present
State Council Victoria
Sports Medicine Australia
Australia
2023
FIFA Women’s World Cup
Australia
2020
Parkville, Master of Sports Medicine
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
2011
Bachelor of Podiatry
La Trobe University
Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Motivators and barriers for studying podiatry in Australia and New Zealand: A mixed methods study
2024 | Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Load-modifying interventions for shin pain: Asystematic and critical review of the evidence
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 24, S64-S65
Conceptualisation of a region-based group of musculoskeletal pain conditions as ‘tibial loading pain and systematic review of effects of load-modifying interventions.
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 25(1), 46-52