Philip Rowe

Philip Rowe received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Birmingham, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of Strathclyde, in 1990. For his Ph.D. work, he received the European Society of Biomechanics, Clinical Biomechanics Award in 1987. After completing his Ph.D., he held various academic appointments with Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, U.K., where he pursued his own research and was also responsible for research development within the School of Health Sciences. He re-joined the Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde, in 2005, as part of the HealthQWest research consortium, for which he was the Head of the Function for Living Research Program. His main research areas lie in clinical movement analysis, functional analysis, biomechanics of the human body in motion, rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation technology, rehabilitation robotics, and robotic surgery especially applied to orthopaedics and stroke. His research has helped elucidate the clinical outcomes of various musculoskeletal and neurological disorders, such as knee replacement surgery, hip replacement surgery, hip fractures, back pain, hyper-mobility syndrome, patello-femoral pain syndrome, stroke, and aging. He is especially interested in the application of science and engineering methods to patient treatment and also their use to quantify and analyze the clinical effects of rehabilitation services. He considers that for service users to maximize their recovery from illness rehabilitation should encompass the physical, psychological, nutritional, and social factors effecting function simultaneously and should assist the patient travel from the acute setting through rehabilitation to self care or care in the community.