Nathalie has been working at Sports Fever for three years and is actually well on her way to becoming a doctor! Nathalie is a fifth year medical students and says she loves combining her passion for health and medicine with her work with Sports Fever customers.
“It's very useful understanding the anatomy and underlying pathology when serving customers with complaints like pain and instability,” she explains. “It helps to apply anatomical knowledge and product-specific technologies to find the perfect fit for a customer's foot.
“It has also been particularly useful when explaining how products like Skins work. TEDS stockings are used in the hospitals and work through a similar mechanism (but they're a lot less aesthetically pleasing!). It's very easy to sell a product when its efficacy and reliability has been proven time and again.”
Nathalie says she decided to study medicine as she has always been fascinated by how the human body works and how doctors can help when it doesn’t work properly. “Things like pregnancy and birth amaze me,” she says. “I'm constantly impressed at the advances being made in medicine to improve well-being and I hope one day to be able to optimise peoples' quality of life through my practice.”
If that’s not impressive enough, Nathalie also recently worked in a mobile clinic in Kenya. “I saw some very interesting tropical medicine, made some very good friends and saw a lot of a very beautiful country,” she says.
Nathalie says one of the things she loves about both her medical studies is also one of her favourite things about working at Sports Fever – meeting new people and working as part of a team. “Our staff all seem to be very happy people and we all get along really well. It's great to work with friends.
“I also love the relationship we have with physios, podiatrists and sports doctors. I think customers appreciate that we have the backing of health professionals and are able to use our training to work with their recommendations.”
Make sure to say hi to Nathalie next time you’re in the Subiaco or Cottesloe store!
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