Onsite Physiotherapy

Onsite Physiotherapy Services

Traditionally, small niggles and aches that are left to linger and not treated in their earliest onset can result in expensive claims, lost time and a decrease in productivity. While these injuries have a significant financial impact on an organisation, they also negatively affect the injured employee.

Bodycare’s onsite physiotherapy service is key to managing the musculoskeletal health of your workforce. As the largest provider of onsite physiotherapy services throughout Australia and New Zealand, we offer tailored solutions to effectively reduce the cost and prevalence of injuries in your workplace.

Bodycare’s model demonstrates that taking a proactive approach and encouraging early reporting, functional movement tests, and early intervention injury management ensures that low-grade sprains and strains, are dealt with well before they develop into a costly burden to employers.

Benefits of Onsite Physiotherapy

  • Employees are provided with immediate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of an injury by a trained professional
  • Injuries are treated in a timely and effective manner within your workplace, reducing loss of productivity and costs associated with employees leaving the workplace to be treated by an offsite health provider
  • The availability of an onsite physiotherapy service facilitates early intervention by allowing employees to be treated for niggles, aches, or pains before they develop in severity
  • Onsite physiotherapists proactively roam onsite and provide on-the-job education and training to your employees such as correct manual handling techniques or process improvements to prevent injuries from occurring
  • If an employee is injured, your onsite physiotherapist can facilitate and expedite the return to work by providing modifications to duties, providing rehabilitation treatment, and opening the lines of communication between medical professionals, managers, and the injured worker to create a supportive and practical pathway for returning to work earlier
  • Early intervention and accelerated return to work practices reduce the overall cost of your business’ workers’ compensation claims and insurance premiums.

Our Physiotherapy Services

At its core, our onsite specialists focus primarily on injury prevention to mitigate risks in the workplace through a unique combination of proactive initiatives and hands-on treatment to ensure your workers remain fit and healthy.

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We make change permanent by changing attitudes

Our onsite physiotherapy service is based on the following best practice principles:

Most injuries are avoidable and ultimately, preventable.

Education, awareness, and communication are critical.

We don’t just treat the injuries; we get to the root cause.

Early detection, reporting and treatment are paramount to our approach.

Continuous improvement is driven through analysis of injuries, claims and incidents.

We want, and expect a high level of scrutiny.

Sharing the learnings from what we found creates improved business processes.

What we do must be completely transparent, measurable, and sustainable.

We work in collaboration with you.

We work to understand your risks, your history, and your critical pain points so we can deliver prevention programs that address these key risks.

Our injury prevention strategies mirror the approach adopted by professional sporting clubs.

The very best organisations ensure that there are robust screening procedures and targeted role training in place. When a player feels even a hint of pain and discomfort they have it attended to quickly by a highly trained physiotherapist. The treatment, the task modification and the education happen instantly. This approach reduces the chance of a minor niggle becoming a serious injury and is communicated effectively to all key stakeholders in the organisation.

Mobile Physiotherapy

We are defined by our skilled people

The quality of our people and onsite physio specialists underpins our capability to serve our clients. For this reason, we invest resources in identifying exceptional practitioners, developing their skills, and creating an environment that fosters their growth as health professionals.

Our team of highly qualified occupational physiotherapists have the experience, knowledge, and ability to deliver a first-class service to our clients.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the role of an onsite physiotherapist?

An onsite physiotherapist attends your workplace regularly to provide treatment and advice to your employees while they are at work. This stops employees leaving the work site for external treatment and allows for immediate treatment of an injury. An onsite physiotherapist can observe workers performing tasks in their regular work environment which allows them to provide informed treatment and advice about injury prevention, injury management and recovery. An onsite physiotherapist facilitates improved communication between the injured worker, the treating physiotherapist and the management or workplace health and safety team by providing regular updates on the progress of the workers recovery.

Bodycare’s onsite physiotherapists provide a detailed explanation of the anatomy of the body area at most risk and emphasise the relevance of the anatomy and biomechanics in that particular body part and the influence it has on causing of an injury in a particular work environment. Furthermore, our specialists discuss the best practices to avoid injury to a body part such as relevant task specific stretches and strengthening exercises and advice.

Bodycare’s onsite physiotherapists are fully trained health professionals who can provide a variety of treatment and advice to your employees, including:

  • Deep tissue massage
  • Spinal and peripheral joint mobilisation and manipulation
  • Dry needling
  • Muscle Energy Technique
  • Myofascial releases
  • Task specific strengthening & stretching programs for postsurgical rehabilitation or return to work training
  • Core stability and balance training
  • Functional task training/retraining.

[i] 84 days refers to the Average Number of Days between an Injury and a Report, WCD 2014

What is the difference between physiotherapy treatment and injury prevention?

Injury prevention is more than just physiotherapy. Whilst physiotherapy makes up a component of injury prevention, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. Traditionally, the average employee does not report an injury for as many as 84 days[i]. This length of time can lead to injuries deteriorating and lasting for extensive periods, resulting in expensive claims.

Bodycare’s onsite injury prevention model is successful because it goes beyond treatment provision. We encourage employees to move from a reactive to a proactive mindset by encouraging them to present early for treatment of niggles, aches, and pains before they become injuries. Having our injury prevention specialists proactively roam, observe, and engage with employees and discuss their manual handling techniques, workstation set up and the frequency of breaks and stretches, ensures that low grade niggles and aches are managed before they develop into a costly burden.

This approach empowers managers, supervisors, and employees to take effective actions to attain meaningful outcomes.

Bodycare’s onsite physiotherapists:

Engage with employees while they work, not just in the treatment room
Teach employees how to avoid injury through correct manual handling technique assistance
Can provide treatment and injury prevention advice for work and non-work-related injuries
Can assist with safe return to work for employees on WorkCover claims
Can complete risk assessments and adjust workstations.
Some of the tools that Bodycare use to ensure we are all preventing injuries, mitigating risks, and improving workplace safety include:

  • Manual handling advice and reinforcement
  • Injury prevention insights
  • Proactive roaming and observation
  • Ergonomic assessments and advice
  • Functional movement screening
  • Workplace risk assessments
  • Functional fitness programs.

What are the benefits of having a Bodycare injury prevention service onsite?

  • Employees are provided with immediate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of an injury by a trained professional
  • Injuries are treated in a timely and effective manner within your workplace, reducing loss off productivity and costs associated with employees leaving the workplace to be treated by an offsite health provider
  • The availability of an onsite physiotherapy service facilitates early intervention by allowing employees to be treated for niggles, aches, or pains, before they develop in severity
  • Bodycare physiotherapists proactively roam onsite and provide on the job education and training to you employees such as correct manual handling techniques or process improvements to prevent injuries from occurring
  • If an employee is injured, your onsite physiotherapist can facilitate and expedite the return to work by providing modifications to duties, providing rehabilitation treatment, and opening the lines of communication between medical professionals, managers, and the injured worker to create a supportive and practical pathway for returning to work earlier
  • Early intervention and accelerated return to work practices reduce the overall cost of your business’ workers’ compensation claims and insurance premiums.

What is the difference between physiotherapy and occupational therapy?

While both physiotherapists and occupational therapists both do rehabilitative work – the two roles are quite different from one another.

A physiotherapist focuses on treating an individual’s injury (whether that is a torn ligament, fracture or another injury that has impaired their mobility) and works to improve the individual’s ability to perform a movement. An occupational therapist on the other hand will help a person who has suffered an accident or illness live as independently as possible by improving their ability to perform everyday tasks.

Why should you choose Bodycare’s services over an alternative onsite physiotherapy service?

Our online booking system

Bodycare has a secure online booking platform making it easy for employees to be booked in for appointments by their managers. This online diary can be accessed by selected management only. The booking software sends notifications or email reminders to both the employee and their manager regarding post treatment instructions or reminders.

Our exclusive injury prediction software

Bodycare’s exclusive, online software program Healthy Workplace Dashboard compiles meaningful injury-related data. Not only does the software serve as a live electronic platform for gathering medical information from patients/employees, but it also actually enables employers to obtain a clearer understanding of the nature of workplace injuries that are occurring, and to measure the effectiveness of the ways in which they are prevented and managed.

Our collaborative approach

We know that to make workplaces safer and less prone to injury an integrated, focused approach around a common goal is necessary. This collaboration involves not only Bodycare and our clients, but all those involved in managing workplace injuries. This includes insurers, brokers, rehab consultants, case managers as well as other medical or allied health professionals.

Our effective communication and reporting

As part of Bodycare’s commitment to delivering a valuable injury prevention service, we will ensure that your team is on the same page as ours across multiple different management levels. Our online software platform also serves a valuable communication tool in that it sends regular notifications to managers across all levels regarding aspects of the onsite physiotherapy service including:

  • Injury alerts
  • Injury updates
  • Red flag updates
  • Offsite treatment updates and notifications
  • Quarterly analysis and presentation utilising software to create a proactive injury prevention program.

What happens when an injury occurs outside of onsite physiotherapy times?

Bodycare’s onsite physiotherapists create a proactive environment with the aim that many acute injuries will be avoided altogether however, we understand that injuries may still occur. In this case, Bodycare has established a national network of clinics that employees can be booked into to ensure they receive the best possible treatment until the next session time.

What happens when an employee’s injury requires further investigation or referral to a specialist?

If the onsite physiotherapist is treating an employee with an injury that requires referral to a specialist, or who has reached their treatment limit, the onsite physiotherapist will communicate with the employee’s manager prior to making any referral. If the employee is on restricted duties, the onsite physiotherapist will communicate this to the GP, so they are aware that these duties are available.

When should you see a physiotherapist?

If you have a niggle, ache, or pain it is recommended that you see a physiotherapist immediately. Infact the treatment of niggles, aches and pains within 1-7 days is known to significantly reduce the severity of an injury and reduce the likelihood of the issue escalating into a larger problem. This is where the benefit of having an onsite physiotherapist onsite really comes in handy – it ensures that all injuries can be accessed and treated immediately.

Contact us now to learn more about our onsite physiotherapy services