Mia Spencer

Mia Spencer is a Melbourne-based physiotherapist with a clinical focus on hip, groin and lowerlimb rehabilitation, paediatric care, and adult musculoskeletal management. Her practice is shaped by experience inside high-performance team-sport environments, where return-to-play, load management, and individualised rehabilitation drive every clinical decision. Mia delivers evidencebased, goal-focused care that restores movement, strength and confidence — whether a patient is recovering from surgery, navigating a long-standing complaint, or working toward a performance target.

Mia has worked across some of Victoria’s most respected high-performance programs. At the Western Bulldogs AFL Club, she supported player rehabilitation and performance across the AFLW and VFL programs through a structured physiotherapy cadetship. With Hockey Victoria, she travelled with the U14 and U18 squads to national tournaments, managing acute presentations and same-day return-to-play decisions across a demanding tournament schedule. She has also served as an interstate sports trainer and massage therapist with the Sydney Swans AFLW, and most recently held a clinical role at MOG Sports Medicine within the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group.

Alongside her clinical work, Mia contributes to AFL injury prevention and rehabilitation research, with a particular interest in return-to-play criteria, load monitoring, and lower-limb injury risk in field-based sport. This research involvement keeps her clinical reasoning current and ensures the rehabilitation she delivers is grounded in the latest evidence.

Her clinical interests span adult musculoskeletal assessment and rehabilitation, hip and lower-limb injuries including post-surgical care, and paediatric physiotherapy and early intervention. Mia is particularly experienced in managing hip and groin presentations in athletic populations, as well as guiding rehabilitation following hip arthroscopy and other lower-limb surgical procedures. Her paediatric work focuses on early intervention and developmental movement, supporting young people to build strength, confidence and capacity for sport and daily life.

Mia holds a Master of Physiotherapy and a Bachelor of Applied Movement Science, both from Victoria University. Mia is also a competitive sprinter. She races on the Victorian Athletic League professional running circuit — where she is a major gift winner over the sprint distances — and competes through the Athletics Victoria amateur season, as well as the Australian beach sprinting circuit. That first-hand experience of training load, competition pressure and return-to-track rehabilitation directly shapes how she works with athletes in the clinic.