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Useful Information for Clinicians, Researchers, Patients, Parents, Athletes, Coaches and Community members.

Useful Information for Clinicians, Researchers, Patients, Parents, Athletes, Coaches and Community members.
Useful Information for Clinicians, Researchers, Patients, Parents, Athletes, Coaches and Community members.
Inger Mechlenburg is an expert in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, holding a joint professorship at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. Her research focuses on hip and shoulder conditions and she has conducted numerous randomized clinical trials.
Her scholarly work includes 177 peer-reviewed papers, and she has also contributed to book chapters.
Prof. Mechlenburg has supervised 15 PhD projects, with five more in progress. She collaborates internationally with institutions like Kings College London, the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Karolinska University Hospital on clinical trials for hip and shoulder diseases.
Jit Balakumar is a highly trained orthopaedic surgeon with a expertise in lower limb surgery, namely, joint preservation surgeries of the hip (hip arthroscopy, osteotomies and impingement surgery) and joint replacement.
After he completed a fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Mr Balakumar completed a diploma and fellowship of Knee Surgery in Paris V University in Paris, France.
In 2008 he was recognized for his talents and was accepted into the very competitive and highly sought after paediatric surgery fellowship at Harvard’s Children’s Hospital Boston. This is an American-accredited fellowship program which rarely grants acceptance to foreign-trained surgeons. There, Mr Balakumar completed a full-year of hands-on surgical training with some of the brightest minds and hands in orthopaedics. He honed his skills with emerging techniques in joint preservation surgeries across the paediatric, adolescent and adult populations.
His unique understanding of orthopaedics across all age groups makes Mr Balakumar versatile in treating these conditions being able to offer both joint preservation and replacement options. He has a number of publications in peer review orthopaedic literature and continues to present at international orthopaedic meetings. Mr Balakumar also teaches orthopaedic surgeons, trainees and medical students.
Andrew is an APA Sports and Manipulative Physiotherapist who is currently employed at St. Kilda Football Club (since 2007) and works privately at Melbourne Orthopaedic Group Sports Medicine. Over the last 20 years, Andrew has worked in both a clinical setting and within the elite sporting environment at Melbourne Victory, Adelaide Thunderbirds, SACA Redbacks, V8 Supercars, triathlon and athletics.
Andrew works closely with several of Melbourne’s leading surgeons and Sports Physicians and over the years has developed a special interest in hip and groin pathology. This has led to the development of an evidence-based assessment and treatment model. This may include conservative management of conditions such as femoroacetabular impingement and hip dysplasia or post-operative rehabilitation following hip arthroscopy, peri-acetabular osteotomy, total hip replacement/resurfacing, femoral osteotomy etc.