Author: Tim McGrath

Tim McGrath has extensive sports physiotherapy experience. He holds a PhD from the Research Institute of Sports & Exercise (UCRISE) at the University of Canberra on the topic of ACL rehabilitation of the knee. He is the current Physiotherapy and Medical Services Co-Ordinator at St George-Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League Competition (NRL), and since 2004 has previously worked with other high level sporting teams, including the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL (2015-2017), Brumbies Super Rugby Team (2006-2011), Sale Sharks Rugby Football Club United Kingdom (2006), and Canberra Raiders NRL Team (2004-2006). He has also toured with the Australian Men’s Rugby Sevens Team in the HSBC World Series (2013-2014). Tim has also enjoyed brief stints with other high level sporting teams such as the Tongan National Rugby Team and the Australian Rugby Union. He also consults to the ACT Comets and ACT Meteors Cricket Teams in Australia. In addition to his undergraduate Physiotherapy degree and PhD, Tim has completed a post-graduate Master’s Degree in Sports Physiotherapy and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. He has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Extended-Scope Physiotherapy and is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Data Science. He is Head of the Athlete Research Lab housed within Elite Rehab (www.ersportsphysio.com.au) and developed PITCH READY®️ which uses meta-data for return to sport decision making in athletes recovering from a knee or lower limb injury (www.pitch-ready.com). He has lectured extensively in sports physiotherapy courses for the Australian Physiotherapy Association as well as to other health professions and has authored publications in peer-reviewed journals (see research page of Elite rehab website). Tim has also previously consulted to the Canberra Hospital Emergency Department as an Extended-Scope Physiotherapist and to Occupational Rehabilitation Companies as a senior consultant.