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National Network Lead: Paula Peralta

Paula is a Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists (FACP) who joins our team from the NSW Institute of Sport. She has worked within the National Institute Network and across multiple National Sporting Organisations in both able-bodied and para-sport.

Paula is the Lead Physio for the Australian Opals and the Physical Therapies Lead for Paralympics Australia. She has worked with the Australian Boomers, the Australian Diamonds and with the Australian team at multiple Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games. She is a member of the Female Performance and Health Initiative (FPHI) Industry Reference Group.

Paula is based in Sydney.

Paula Peralta

Resources

Within the Outstanding People & Organisations priority area, Australia’s High Performance 2032+ Sport Strategy (HP2032+ or the Strategy) emphasises the need to establish benchmark diversity and belonging data to build highly capable organisations that attract, develop and retain diverse talent to maximise human potential across the High Performance (HP) workforce. A workforce mapping project was conducted early in 2024 to gain a greater understanding of the depth, breadth, experience and diversity of the:

  1. Australian HP Sports Physiotherapy Network
  2. Australian HP Soft Tissue Therapy Network

194 Physiotherapists and 58 Soft Tissue Therapists met the criteria to participate in the project.

Please see attached links to the project reports:

Physiotherapy_Network_in_the_High_Performance_Sport_System.pdf

Soft _Tissue_Network_in_the_High_Performance_Sport_System.pdf

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