When people suffer an injury at work, it can often affect their work capacity and in-turn affect personal life. Helping people return to work ‘safely and quickly’ is very important as it can make a huge difference in the overall quality of life. This is something our physiotherapists understand very well and provide effective assessment and treatment to help people recover from their injuries, so they can go back to work feeling confident in their body.
To improve our understanding and skills in this area we organised a CPD session with Cassandra Zaina, the clinical physiotherapy advisor for ReturnToWorkSA.
Her presentation focused on the 2 major things a physiotherapist can provide to a worker returning from injury:
The first is a functional capacity assessment which helps to establish a baseline of what support the patient might need.
Second is a workplace or worksite visit and assessment. This process will help us to understand the patients work conditions and how we can alter them to be safer and better suited to that patients needs.
Cassandra’s presentation was very informative and gave us some additional tools, expertise and advice that was very useful for the team, and we are really thankful for her and ReturnToWorkSA for giving their time to help us.
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