Phil Glasgow

Head of Sports Medicine

Dr. Philip Glasgow is head of Sports Medicine at the Sports Institute Northern Ireland. A graduate of the University of Ulster, his doctoral studies investigated factors influencing exercise induced muscle damage and its management. He has worked as a physiotherapist in the NHS, as a researcher at the University of Ulster and for the past number of years within high performance sport managing elite athletes during training and competition from across a wide range of sports including rugby union, hockey, athletics, boxing, skiing, sailing, cycling, swimming, squash and football.

Phil has worked at a number of major international competitions including various World and European Championships as well as working as a HQ physiotherapist for the Irish team at the Beijing Olympic Games. His particular interests are in the field of functional rehabilitation and in the development of robust clinical assessment for sports specific skills.

Phil is currently the chair for Education and Research for the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine (ACPSM), the national body representing sports physiotherapists and is a committee member of the NI branch of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM). Phil has presented at a number of international conferences on various aspects of sports medicine and is involved in the undergraduate teaching of physiotherapy and medical students; he teaches on a number of postgraduate MSc programmes at various UK and European universities.