About
Thihan Chandramohan
Physiotherapist for 25 years, more than 15 of them in elite sport, most of it in cricket. I have spent most of that time inside sports science and sports medicine departments. Men’s National Team Physiotherapist with the Federazione Cricket Italiana, 2025 to present.
What I do
Two jobs, at different scales.
I assess and rehabilitate cricket injuries, and I help teams and organisations build the systems that decide whether players stay available. Those two jobs sound separate. They are the same job at different scales.
Most of my week is spent one to one with cricketers, in person in Richmond or on video with players elsewhere. The rest is consulting work: injury surveillance, workload systems, rehabilitation pathways, and reviews of how a sports science and sports medicine department operates.
- 2025 to presentFederazione Cricket ItalianaMen’s National Team Physiotherapist
- 2025 to presentSports Medicine AustraliaMember, Victorian State Council
- 2025Cricket AustraliaTouring physiotherapist, MRF Academy tour, Chennai
- 2022 to 2024Sri Lanka CricketNational Rehabilitation Manager
- 2021Melbourne RenegadesMen’s team physiotherapist, Big Bash League
- 2017 to 2019Bangladesh Cricket BoardNational team physiotherapist, including the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup
- 2013 to 2016Hampshire CricketLead physiotherapist and SSSM lead
- 2011 to 2015Melbourne StarsLead physiotherapist
- 2006 to 2013Cricket VictoriaAcademy physiotherapist 2006 to 2009. Head physiotherapist 2009 to 2013
Roles marked present are current. Past roles are experience, not current partnerships or endorsements.
How I work
Three things shape every plan.
Availability is the outcome that matters
A player who is fit in the gym and unavailable on Saturday has not been rehabilitated. So the plan works backwards from the match: what the role demands, what the schedule looks like, and what has to be true before you take the field.
Simple systems survive a season
Elaborate programs look thorough and fail quietly. Players stop doing them in week three, usually without telling anyone. I would rather give you four things you will do than fourteen you will not.
Evidence matters, context decides
Research tells you what tends to happen across groups. It does not tell you what to do with a bowler who has one match left in a season and a contract in question. I will tell you what the evidence supports, where it runs out, and what I would do.
Cricket, from the other side
I have had my own surgery and rehab.
It is a useful thing for a physiotherapist to have been through. It shortens the distance between what a plan looks like on paper and what it feels like at week six, when progress has stopped.
What I will not do
Honest limits.
- Promise a timeline I cannot stand behind. Tissue heals at its own rate, and the honest answer to "how long" is usually a range with conditions attached.
- Tell you an injury has one cause. Cricket injuries almost never do. Bowling load matters, and so do sleep, travel, schedule density, technique, previous injury and what happened in the gym.
- Sell you a screen that claims to predict injury. No screening test does that reliably. Testing is useful for a baseline and for tracking change, which is a smaller and more honest claim.
The two practices
The Cricket Physio and Bridge Road
I run both from the same clinic in Richmond, inside Uplift Gym. Bridge Road Physiotherapy treats everything: backs, shoulders, running injuries, gym injuries and the general run of things people arrive with. Every in-person appointment, cricket ones included, is booked and invoiced through Bridge Road. The Cricket Physio is my cricket practice: online appointments, Sports Injury Screening, the guides, memberships, club packages and team consulting. If your injury has nothing to do with cricket, Bridge Road is the front door. Either way, you see me.
Work with me
In person in Melbourne, by video where suitable, or across the season.