Michael Nitschke

Certified Sports Podiatrist (ApodA) Sports & Arthritis Clinic

Michael is a Certified Sports Podiatrist based in Adelaide who has 19 years clinical experience in the Sports Medicine field. For the last 3 decades, he has donated a large portion of his life to athletics; training, competing and more recently coaching. At the age of 40, he still competes on the track, cross country, trails and roads…albeit happily in the master’s category nowadays. Consequently, the running population form the majority of his patients, and after almost 2 decades, he is as passionate working in this space as he was day 1.

Between clinical practice, Michael is the head coach of the Adelaide University Athletics Club and a collaborator/co-author with the ARENA research group in the field of running performance and physiology. Each month, he joins colleagues Thomas Do Canto and Julian Spence on the popular shoe geeks podcast hosted by Inside Running.

Now living in Belair with his wife and 5 year old daughter, he enjoys nothing more than spending the weekends running/riding through the magical Adelaide Hills with his family/friends and the club runners of Adelaide.