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Marcus Bateman reflects on Research and Innovation award win

Marcus Bateman award win

Around 300 staff attended the glitzy first annual Making a Difference awards ceremony at Burton Albion’s Pirelli Stadium back in September. There were many winners amongst the various award categories, including a category for Research and Innovation.  

The physiotherapy department was well represented in the Research and Innovation Award category as all three short-listed nominees, Emma Salt, Benjamin Smith and Marcus Bateman, are physiotherapists at the Trust.

The award for Research and Innovation eventually went to Marcus Bateman, Consultant Physiotherapist in the Derby Shoulder Unit.  After the ceremony, he said: “This highlights the enthusiasm there is for research in our profession. Hopefully, the Derby and Burton AHP Research Network will inspire others and this awards evening may help towards that.”

Mr Bateman has a particular interest in treating patients with complex traumatic shoulder instability, and has provided significant benefits to these patients through his Derby Shoulder Instability Rehabilitation Programme.

When asked how he felt when he was announced as the winner, Mr Bateman said, “I was extremely proud and honoured. I thought that any one of us would have been a worthy winner but I was pleased it was me. I was just glad that I didn’t have to make a speech!”

The award winning physiotherapist has also applied for an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to investigate optimised physiotherapy rehabilitation for patients with Tennis Elbow. If his application is successful, the project will start in April 2020.

At present, Mr Bateman is the Principal Investigator on the NIHR-funded RaCeR trial, a feasibility trial investigating whether early rehabilitation is more clinically and cost-effective than the usual practice of delayed rehabilitation after rotator cuff repair surgery.

The trial is nearing the end of the recruitment phase and it is hoped that the findings will be shared next year.

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