SCHOLARSHIPS
Charlotte & Martin Gallagher Prolotherapy Scholarship
Advancing Prolotherapy in Family Medicine
Dr. Martin Gallagher, is a family medicine, functional medicine and chiropractic physician in Pennsylvania. He suffered from chronic pain and got his life back after receiving prolotherapy regenerative injections. He went on to learn prolotherapy techniques from the late Jeff Patterson, DO, at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, and participated in the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation's (HHPF) service learning trips. This forever changed his life and career, providing him with more tools to better treat chronic pain. Dr. Gallagher said, "I want to support the philosophy and intent on which the roots of prolotherapy beganrolotherapy is a great, viable therapy that any family physician can learn to do and incorporate into their practice.”
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Dr. Gallagher and his wife, Charlotte, established the Gallagher Foundation in affiliation with the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), to offer 2 Scholarships, per year, for family medicine residents and fellows to get exposure to the academic principles and clinical practice of prolotherapy by participating in 2 educational opportunities hosted by HHPF:
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An annual conference held each October on the UW Madison campus about prolotherapy in collaboration with the International Association of Regenerative Therapy (IART).
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An annual one week service-learning trip in Honduras with hands-on prolotherapy experience working with leaders in the field.
We thank Dr. Martin Gallagher and Charlotte Gallagher for their generous gift that opens doors to transform medical education and provide much needed healthcare to global underserved communities.
Alexandra (Sasha) Ilkevitch, MD
Gallagher Scholarship Recipient
“This scholarship enables you to participate in a great immersion prolotherapy experience. You will become proficient in doing basic prolotherapy techniques for many of the major body joints, especially knees and shoulders.“This trip changed my perspective on managing musculoskeletal pain. Nonoperative management options often consist of physical therapy, steroid injections and symptomatic management with medications. Prolotherapy provides practitioners with another set of tools to address and successfully treat the ligamentous sources of musculoskeletal pain while strengthening that region of the body.“In addition, you will have a chance to provide excellent musculoskeletal care to one of the most medically underserved regions of the world. You will be working alongside enthusiastic, passionate, and dedicated physicians and staff. This trip will have you practicing medicine in a way that would remind you why you became a doctor in the first place.”
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