Dr Sarah Rollins
Consultant in Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine,
Pure Sports Medicine
Dr Sarah Rollins is a Consultant in Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine at Pure Sports Medicine in Edinburgh, with a specialist interest in women's health across the lifespan. Her areas of expertise include Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period, diastasis recti abdominis, and peri-menopause and menopause care. She is passionate about helping women optimise their health, wellbeing, performance, and participation in physical activity at every stage of life.
Dr Sarah has been a leading advocate for women's health within the military and has played a key role in developing Defence Women's Health and rehabilitation guidance, including the Defence Women’s Health Rehabilitation Best Practice Guideline and the Defence Exercise in Pregnancy Guideline. She is also a co-author of the peer-reviewed publication Prioritise Safety, Optimise Success! Return to Rugby Postpartum, published in the European Journal of Sport Science in 2024.
Alongside her clinical work, Dr Sarah is an experienced educator in musculoskeletal ultrasound and image-guided injection techniques. She serves as Honorary Doctor to the British Orienteering Team and was Team Doctor for the UK delegation at the Invictus Games Sydney 2018.
She recently completed a distinguished 30-year career with the Ministry of Defence, serving first as an Army General Practitioner and later as a Civil Servant Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine. Throughout her career, she has combined expertise in sports medicine, rehabilitation, and women's health to support individuals in achieving their health and performance goals.
As a World Masters Orienteering Champion and former Great Britain international athlete, Dr Sarah brings both clinical expertise and personal experience of high-performance sport, offering a unique perspective on women's health, performance, recovery, and lifelong participation in physical activity.