Workplace Injuries
If you have been injured in your workplace and have lodged a claim, you can receive treatment that is covered by your workplace’s insurance company. We will require a doctor’s referral for physiotherapy, as well as your Insurance details including your claim number.
Your management under worker’s compensation involves a team effort between your physiotherapist, your doctor, your insurance company, vocational rehabilitation officer and of course you! It is important for you to maintain an active role in your own rehabilitation. This involves attending all scheduled appointments and rescheduling if you are unable to attend, taking on the advice provided from medical professionals, communicating with your physiotherapist or doctor if you are having any issues and committing to any advice or exercise rehabilitation that your physiotherapist sets for you.
Our aim is to decipher the cause for your symptoms or injury, and determine the best management for this. Part of your rehabilitation involves setting some return to work goals and getting you back into the workforce as soon as it is safe and appropriate. Rehabilitation from a workplace injury may involve a home exercise program or gym-based rehabilitation, workplace ergonomics assessment, postural retraining and general advice about how best to manage your condition. Although manual therapy is sometimes important for pain relief and achieving normal movement, often it is these other factors that allow you to achieve long term relief so it is important to go into Physiotherapy in the right frame of mind about this! Generally manual therapy and other passive treatments are eased off later in your rehabilitation to improve your self management and active involvement in your own rehabilitation. This is to ensure that the problem is less likely to recur and give you ongoing issues.
