Perthes Disease Research Update - webinar

Adam Galloway, Senior Children's Physiotherapist and NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow provides an update on progress with the research he is undertaking in which he aims to assess the effectiveness of non-surgical intervention for patients with Perthes disease when compared with surgical management.

You can watch the original research briefing webinar here:    • Perthes - Why is more research needed?  

Research is essential to establish which treatments work better for patients. Without research, it is difficult to discover new treatments or ensure that the ones we currently use are the best ones.

Research is key to finding answers to questions that currently have ‘no answer’. It fills gaps in knowledge and changes the way that healthcare professionals work.

Steps charity worldwide strongly believes that continuous research and clinical trials are a must and should be part of every national healthcare system. People around the world benefit from past research and continue to benefit from research that is currently being carried out.

Panelist: Adam Galloway, Senior Children's Physiotherapist and NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow.
Adam is a Physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Children's Orthopaedics. He has worked in Leeds since 2013 after graduating at Leeds Metropolitan [Beckett] University.

Adam is currently completing a HEE/NIHR Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship which secured 2 years of funding to spend 50% of his time developing a doctoral fellowship project and application.

Prior to entering the world of Children's physiotherapy Adam worked with adults and as part of his HEE/NIHR funded MSc Clinical Research Methods he completed a research study to evaluate the reliability of an outcome measure in patients who had recently undergone brain surgery.
His interest in this matter laid within the unknown usefulness/effectiveness of pre-existing measures in populations that have no current 'gold-standard'. This, in essence, led him to his current research area focus in which he aims to assess the effectiveness of non-surgical intervention for patients with Perthes' disease when compared with surgical management, for which there is currently no standardised treatment course or indeed outcome measure.