Kade Paterson is Lakeside Sports Medicine Centre’s senior podiatrist. Kade was the second person in Australia to become a Certified Sports Podiatrist from the Australian Podiatry Association. He has completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours), a Bachelor of Podiatry and a PhD investigating neuro-mechanical changes in active, older adults. He is an Executive Board member and Victorian Director for the Australasian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine, and is on the Victorian State Council for Sports Medicine Australia.
Kade’s expertise lies in managing difficult foot and lower limb injuries in professional, amateur and recreational athletes of all ages and abilities. He deals with exercise-related foot and lower leg pain, including heel and forefoot pain, tendinopathies and stress fractures, as well as other foot problems such as skin and nail conditions.
He has worked widely with a number of elite football and basketball clubs, tennis players and track and field athletes. He is currently the Sports Podiatrist for Melbourne United basketball club in the NBL, and he was previously a biomechanical consultant for the Collingwood Football Club.
Kade also holds a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship with the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine (CHESM) at The University of Melbourne, where he works part-time researching conservative treatment options for musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis and plantar heel pain (plantar fasciitis). This combination of clinical and research experience ensures that Kade’s patient care is based upon current therapeutic research and practice within podiatric sports medicine. His academic position at The University of Melbourne also brings a strong understanding of the many of other factors that can contribute to injuries in athletes. He has published over 45 peer-review journal papers on lower limb conditions and biomechanics, and has had >20 invited and keynote conference presentations in Australia and internationally.
