Occupational Physiotherapy at Advantage Healthcare
Advantage Healthcare works with many different companies providing return to work physiotherapy treatments, manual handling and pre employment medicals. Our experienced team works with industries to ensure the health of it’s employees, decreases the number of injuries and helps get their injured staff back to work as fast as they safely manage.
Our Physiotherapists utilise their advanced assessment and treatment techniques to optimise the results of your workforce. We work with both Workcover covered employers and self insured workplaces.
Treatments for the Worker
At Advantage Healthcare & Physiotherapy we provide expert occupational physiotherapy treatments designed to help get you the worker back to your job safely. Whether it’s back pain from lifting something heavy, shoulder or arm pain from repetitive work or simply neck pain from sitting too long, our expert physiotherapists will get you back on track as smoothly as possible.
We use a combination of manual therapies (massage, mobilisations, dry needling/acupuncture), ergonomic advice and exercise prescription to relieve your pains, restore your mobility and improve your load tollerance to return to work.
If needed we can collabrate with your employer, your workcover case manager and referring doctor to help form the best return to work plan for you.
Physiotherapy for the Employeer
When you have an injured worker, our physiotherapists are able to work with you the employer to help you both get the best possible outcomes. We partner with businesses of all sizes to ensure your workers can have immediate treatments, fixing issues before they become big problems. We provide both hands on treatments as well as ergonomic and exercise advice to ensure your worker not only improves, but is less likely to have issues down the track.
Helping you minimise your injuries also helps you reduce your insurace or workcover premiums.
We also offer manual handling training.
Who we help
Employees & Individuals
- Those suffering from work related injuries
- Returning to work after time off, surgery or sickness
- Posture related pain, stiffness or restrictions
- Those with chronic pain who are unable to do their work
For Employers & Businesses
- Companies with Workcover injuries
- Businesses who self insure
- Businesses looking to decrease workplace injuries
- Businesses looking to improve productivity
Benefits of Workplace Physio
Injury assessment and treatment
- Thorough assessment of workplace injuries
- Hands on treatments, including manual therapies as required
- Exercise rehabilitation to ensure a full recovery
Reduced risk of reinjury
Injuries that arent completely rehabilitated leave the athlete at risk of further injuries. If there is an underlying reason for the injury, this has to be addressed or the same injury may happen again.
Improved performance
Having an injury free workforce not only improves your injury statistics and premiums, it also ensures a more productive workforce.
Education
Understanding your workplace injury and the mechanisms of recovery goes a long way to ensure a complete recovery.
Manual handling training
Training on correct movement patterns and postures can go a long way to minimse injuries. While there is no perfect way to do a job, there are certainly ways that aare less ergonomic or more like to cause issues down the track. We work with you to formulate plans to help reduce injuries through correct training.
Self management
If a worker knows how to prevent injuries and what exercises they can be doing to help prevent future injuries they are more likely to continue them, which leads to better outcomes.