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—Why Onsite Physiotherapy Matters More Than Imaging in Workplace Shoulder Pain
Read moreShoulder pain in the workplace are caused by a wide range of issues, some include:
Common in manufacturing and office environments where repetitive motions are a daily requirement.
Often seen in the construction and logistics sectors, where lifting and physical labour are part of many roles.
An issue often seen with office workers who spend long hours at desks with poor ergonomic support.
Workplace accidents can lead to acute shoulder injuries, necessitating immediate and ongoing treatment.
Employ Health delivers onsite physiotherapy services tailored to the specific needs of your Brisbane based workplace. Our fully qualified full time physiotherapists provide customised care at your workplace, offering effective treatments and preventive exercises that directly address shoulder pain.
Our early intervention program is an essential ingredient in your workplace health program to promptly identify and manage the first signs of shoulder discomfort, ensuring fast and effective treatment to prevent chronic conditions. Early Intervention Physiotherapy is particularly beneficial for early-stage intervention, preventing the escalation of pain and promoting a healthier work life.
Our team will work with you to design a pre-employment screening to assess the physical suitability of candidates for specific roles in your business. One of the focus areas is usually screening to identify any predisposition to shoulder issues. This proactive measure helps in placing the right person in the right job, minimising the risk of shoulder-related injuries in your workplace.
When injuries do occur Employ Health is there for your workers to support them. Our on-site physiotherapy program is custom designed around your specific business needs. This program supports workers who have suffered a range of injuries including shoulder injuries. These programs focus on restoring full functionality and strength, ensuring a safe and confident return to daily tasks.
It is important to understand the physical demands of the different roles within your business. Employ Health's technology and data management platform provides a powerful solution to build your job dictionary to enable job capacity matching of workers to the work they will be doing in your workplace. Ensuring you match the right workers with the right roles is an important strategy in reducing the risk of shoulder pain within your business..
Employ Health’s ergonomic assessments address the ergonomic challengings within your specific workplace. Our locally based team of workplace health physiotherapists will provide actionable recommendations to improve your workplace ergonomics and, provide training for your workers on maintaining optimal posture designed to reduce the risk of injury in your workplace, including shoulder pain.
Shoulder pain is a challenge for Brisbane workplaces, affecting your workers quality of life and the productivity of your workers. Employ Health’s system based approach addresses the specific workplace health needs of your business to develop a program that proactively sets your workers, the work they do and the workplace they do it within, up for success. This is likely to involve a range of solutions including preventative strategies, targeted physiotherapy, ergonomic solutions, pre-employment screening and more.
Contact us today to learn how we can partner to manage and prevent shoulder pain within your workforce.
—Why Onsite Physiotherapy Matters More Than Imaging in Workplace Shoulder Pain
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