Tania Pizzari

Dr Tania Pizzari is a physiotherapist and researcher from the La Trobe Sports and Exercise Medicine Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia. She continues to work clinically as a physiotherapist and is the director of a practice in Melbourne.  Her research interests include risk factors and prevention of injury in sport, rehabilitation of shoulder conditions, EMG of the shoulder and hip, groin pain and hamstring injuries in football, and hip muscle structure and function. 

She currently manages the soft tissue injury registry for the Australian Football League and is leading four randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in subacromial pain syndrome, hip osteoarthritis, lateral hip pain, and lumbo-pelvic stability and has been involved in the successful completion of RCTs of rehabilitation for shoulder injuries, lateral hip pain and reducible discogenic lower back pain. Dr Pizzari is currently an investigator on a project funded by the National Basketball Association (NBA) evaluating hamstring and adductor muscle injuries in basketball players.

She has published over 100 articles and book chapters in the area of musculoskeletal medicine and lectures and teaches on physiotherapy rehabilitation techniques around the world.