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Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist PhD candidate @UC_RISE Exercise Scientist. 🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️for fun

Darwin, Northern Territory
Joined January 2012
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HERE WE GO!!!! Help us improve the support of our female athletes in their return to sport postpartum. Be a part of this movement - Be a part of this change! Please like, retweet and tag anyone whom might be able to assist or be involved. – at Rockhampton, Queensland
ITS HERE! Help develop best practice guidelines supporting our elite female athletes who wish to return to sport postpartum. Researchers from @CQU and @QldAcademySport are calling elite female athletes, coaches and sport staff in Australia to be involved: bit.ly/3BU7MF3
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Paddle Australia is excited to confirm the U23 and Junior Australian #CanoeSprint teams for 2022 🇦🇺 Congratulations to all selected 👏 Find out more 👉 paddle.org.au/2022/06/17/pad… @theAIS @sportaustralia @QldAcademySport @NSWIS @InsideWAIS @SASI_sport
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Pregnant women reported concerns during running about falling, reduced oxygen for the baby, tummy separation, thermal discomfort at levels higher than experienced. Rates of urine leakage during running increase after pregnancy. Findings from study of 3102 women from 25 countries.
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Super excited to announce the publication of my first paper! A massive thank you to my team! @AlexDonaldson13 @_mickdrew @SportPsychAus @PrepareNPerform @DrGWaddington @eamsmyth @Kate_Mahony_ And thank you @_JSAMS sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 The FPHI have just released a PRECONCEPTION factsheet for athletes considering pregnancy: ais.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf… Whilst on the website, be sure to check out all of the other amazing FPHI female athlete resources and education modules 🏃🏾‍♀️🏋🏽‍♀️🚲🏊🏻‍♀️
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Looking for runners to help us develop return to running postpartum strategies for @meganljames16's PhD. Please complete our survey 👇Criteria for participants: • >18 years old • gave birth within the last 2 years • ran for >= 30 minutes per week prior to pregnancy
POSTPARTUM RUNNERS🎴 We would like to understand what has helped and hindered you returning to running post-childbirth and what could help you moving forward! We would be very grateful for e-survey responses from those eligible (see details) Link: 👇cardiffmet.eu.qualtrics.com/… 🔁🔁
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This study investigates experiences of practitioners working in elite and professional sport in Australia. If you, or anyone you know currently works or has worked in this field, please assist by completing this survey. Please retweet - THANK YOU
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Talent development is not survival of the fittest – It is not about ten years or 10,000 hours it is a process that involves deliberate practice and incremental progress. It is understanding growth and development and individual rates of maturation.
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#SST member @forsdyke_dale leading the way in understanding the mental health aspect of rehab and recovery-‘While all rehab should be psychologically informed, there are ways to make it more psychologically informed’@TherapyExpo #therapyexpo
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An opportunity to join our team 👇🏼
JOB AD | Part-Time Sports Physiotherapist with #TeamNSWIS. Closes Sunday 28th November. More: nswis.com.au/job-listings/pa…
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Want a #YouthAthlete action plan? Check out bit.ly/3Dkaxxs hot off presses by @NeeruJayanthi @TimGabbett @gregmyer11 @tim_hartwig @Rx2move and Heather Saffel. Sneak peak of useful planning tool below
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SAVE THE DATE: Oct 30 @ltadnetwork Discussion with Growth & Maturation experts @phd_sean Cumming and Adam Baxter-Jones @TinTin63 We will take a deep dive into the widely used Khamis-Roche and Maturity Offset prediction equations📏for assessing & monitoring maturity status
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Physical activity provides a wealth of goodness to everyone, and for people living with dementia, there are many benefits. Interested in learning more? Take a listen to this Talking Physio podcast episode: bit.ly/2XBkTJx #DementiaActionWeek
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To achieve sustained performance and success in sport, wellbeing must be prioritised. The AIS has introduced the Wellbeing Health Check, to identify how successfully HP sports have integrated wellbeing initiatives and services into their programs. 👉 bit.ly/3hYzIwQ
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How can I better empower injured athletes? Awesome to collaborate with ⁦@gleds13⁩ ⁦@tomgoom⁩ & Les Podlog. The editorial is fruit of hours upon hours of enjoyable online discussions. bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2…
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Amazing new @BJSM_BMJ e-Edition on #SportsEquity! Required reading for all SEM clinicians and trainees. Superb commentary and resources. Incredible work and leadership by @YetsaTuakli @JaneSThornton @CheriBlauwetMD @phatho_z and others. bjsm.bmj.com/pages/bjsm-e-ed…
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Replying to @nhmrc @GregHuntMP
Tomorrow marks 16 years for me as a #singleparent Today marks the announcement of #success with a #nhmrc #investigatorgrant #L2 ✅#WomenInSTEM can do it ✅We can make a difference ✅We can be successful @FranklinWomen @MTPConnect_AUS @heartfoundation @nhmrc @SolveChd @thecsanz
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Amazing Lauren Parker👏🤛💚💛
This is your moment, Lauren Parker 🥈 We're all watching with huge smiles 😍 #Tokyo2020 | #Paralympics
A very important topic. Listen to Sara's talk on her PhD research project and give her a vote.
It takes 12yrs and upwards of $36 million to produce one Olympic medal ready athlete. What about the coulda' beens? How many talented athletes are dropping out? Who is asking? To find out more, give this 3min #UCs3MT a watch. And please vote!🙏 canberra.edu.au/3mt
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