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Guest Speaker BiographyDr. Michael Callaghan
Dr. Michael Callaghan qualified in 1983 at Salford School of Physiotherapy and is a Research Associate at Manchester University’s ARC epidemiology research group and a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Emergency Medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In the sports medicine context he has attended 4 Commonwealth Games and 4 Olympic Games as a physiotherapist and was physiotherapist to Everton Football club, Wigan Rugby League Club and the Great Britain Cycling Team. His general area of research has been the assessment and rehabilitation of the lower limb. His research degrees of M.Phil awarded by Liverpool University and Ph.D. at Manchester University focussed the patellofemoral joint in particular. His recent work on patellofemoral pain syndrome has been the further development of functional joint and muscle evaluation and the use of both brain and knee MR imaging to monitor the effects of non-operative treatment for the knee such as taping and bracing. His involvement with the ARC epidemiology unit at Manchester now includes the treatment of patellofemoral pain caused by osteoarthritis and he is involved in a 5 year study of patellofemoral bracing on synovitis and bone marrow oedema in patellofemoral OA. (152). |
