Sports Science and Sports Medicine

Sports Science Sports Medicine services

The Sports Science Sports Medicine section includes all the service delivery departments of the AIS which are organised through the five following groupings:

  • Clinical Services
    • Medicine
    • Physical Therapies (includes Physiotherapy, Massage, Acupuncture and Pilates)
    • Strength and Conditioning
    • Psychology
  • Sport Sciences
    • Nutrition
    • AIS Movement Science (Biomechanics, Performance Analysis and Skill Acquisition)
    • Aquatic Testing, Training and Research
    • Physiology (incorporates Fatigue and Recovery)
  • Athlete and Career Education (Canberra)
  • Performance Research Centre
    • AIS Applied Sensors Unit
    • Sport Interface Unit
    • AIS Technical Laboratory
  • National Sport Science Quality Assurance program

 

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Did you know?

Australia is one of only two nations to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games.

Quick numbers

700 athlete scholarships offered on average annually at the AIS.
263 current and former AIS athletes competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
143 Olympic medals have been won by athletes from the AIS since its establishment.
35 thousand kilometres were swum by Petria Thomas while at the AIS.
0.5 million people visit the AIS each year