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Pippa Inge

Pippa Inge

Deputy Chief Medical Officer & Australian Women's Cricket Team Doctor at Cricket Australia; sport and exercise physician specializing in female athlete health.

Jun 25, 2026

15:43
We go straight into, uh, into her answer to one of my questions.
15:47
I think the biggest thing is being athlete-centered with it and really enabling safe, open conversations based on both first of all what the athlete needs and the mother needs, um, person first, and then looking at what they need from a performance perspective.
16:01
And I think probably a lot of the, the physical things we have a reasonably good framework in the literature about what physical capabilities we need to involve to return to, to play.
16:11
Um, the return to performance I think is another question.
16:14
I think they're really two different things.
16:16
But probably what we don't always, um, do overly well in some of those discussions are the psychological overlay that comes with it and the psychological side of being a new mum.
16:27
There's a lot of, um, there's a lot of learnings in that space.
18:21
Um, but yeah, what, what were the key things in the psychological realm that you have in, you know, thought were really important to include in the policy?

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