Return to Work
Exercise rehabilitation programs designed to promote and maintain physical, mental and social well-being of injured and/or ill workers across all occupations
Our Approach
We strongly promote the positive health benefits of work in any capacity, and can provide evidence-based health care through educating and optimising employees wellbeing and recovery. Health Loop delivers a client-centred and goal driven rehabilitation approach which includes:
Functional rehabilitation programs in line with work-specific tasks and demands
Appropriate and achievable goal setting with associated behavioural change strategies
Building a positive therapeutic relationship, and developing meaningful exercise rehabilitation programs to enable sustainable engagement.
Collaborative communication with employers, GPs, and all key stakeholders involved in the claim to encourage graduated return to, or maintenance of, work
Consideration of an employees context with a biopsychosocial health model
Encouraging early and active intervention, with risk identification to reduce barriers
Our Services
Health Loop provides mobile Exercise Physiology services for occupation specific rehabilitation programs in line with an employees personal injury or accident claim. Our services involve:
Initial needs assessments
Return to work rehabilitation plans including conditioning, functional upgrading, work hardening, and maintenance programs
Functional capacity & fitness for work assessments
Pain education and lifestyle modifications
Case conferencing to ensure collaboration, particularly for complex cases such as secondary illnesses, permanent impairments, and psychological injury/illness.
Injury prevention and early intervention programs
Specialised knowledge in acute & chronic work-related conditions including:
Psychological injury and illness
Maintaining work during cancer therapies, or gradually increasing capacity to build readiness for employment.
Chronic pain education & management
Chronic & complex musculoskeletal injuries
Post-operative rehabilitation
Kinesiphobia and fear avoidance patterns
Acute accident injuries and whiplash
RTW following COVID-19 infection
Your Journey
It all begins with the individual and their story. Every work or accident claim is different, and therefore we ensure our approach is person-centred, and collaborative throughout our involvement in your rehabilitation. When commencing a program with Health Loop, the journey includes:
Referral received and promptly actioned to confirm insurer approval to proceed
Extensive Initial Consultation and Needs Assessment to better understand the injury and/or condition, previous treatments and therapies, other contextual factors, and collaboratively plan a rehabilitation program moving forwards.
Develop a functional and progressive exercise rehabilitation program at a chosen convenient location (local gym, workplace, home)
Gradual extension of supervision and appointment timeframes to encourage self-driven engagement and habit formation.
Work together to set realistic and achievable goals dependant on motivators, behaviours, habits, and intent.
Regular and consistent reporting and communications to ensure a collaborative team care approach, as well as aligning with policy requirements.
Education and long-term maintenance strategies implemented to ensure self-managed exercise completion can be achieved into the future once we finalise involvement.
Refer an injured or ill worker for an exercise rehabilitation or conditioning program here.
The below links are for employers, insurers, GP’s, or other health professionals involved with a claim only - Please use the form at the top of our webpage for all other referral enquiries.
“Functional rehabilitation programs in line with your occupation, and lifestyle”
“Reducing barriers to return to work through functional and meaningful exercise prescription, at a convenient location chosen by you”
Providing early support to injured employees to enable their recovery and return to work is critical.
It’s important to encourage return to work as soon as it is safe to do so, as significant periods away from work are shown to enhance physical and mental decline. You don’t have to be 100% well to be at work - A supportive and graduated plan to return to work will help in your recovery from injury and illness.
- Emerging evidence, ComCare