Services

Active Rehabilitation Clinic

  • four-hour program (five days per week) designed to return workers to pre-injury levels of function and activities
  • focus is on individual needs while working in a healthy, group environment in the downtown YMCA
  • included is an initial assessment with a physiotherapist, individual strength and conditioning program, core strength, education, functional and work simulation activities and hydrotherapy

Job-Site Visit

  • on-site visit with the worker and employer to examine critical job demands and explore opportunities for a gradual return to work
  • report details job-site visit findings and lists appropriate recommendations

Graduated Return-to-Work Plan

  • determination of current injury statue and limitations based on communication with the client, employer, physician, physiotherapist and other health care workers (and possible job site visit)
  • plan ensures a safe and durable return to work

Gradual Return-to-Work Monitoring

  • weekly contact with the worker and employer to ensure that the goals of the gradual return-to-work plan are being met and to deal with any problems that may arise

At-Work Injury Rehabilitation

  • for clients who have sustained a soft-tissue injury and need to continue with active rehabilitation during their part- or full-time job hours
  • includes assessment, ongoing education and support, treatment and exercise-based rehabilitation

Ergonomic Assessment

  • on-site evaluation of one or many work stations with an injured worker
  • report identifies risk factors, recommends ways to reduce them (including improvements to work station ergonomics and flow of activity) and outlines a gradual return to work plan

Job Demand Analysis

  • on-site work evaluation to determine the critical physical demands of a job
  • detailed report outlines the job’s physical requirements including strength, body positions, balance and agility

Personal Training

  • sessions with a kinesiologist provide continued care after a physiotherapist-directed rehab program
  • available as a primary treatment option when recommended by a family physician or from a functional capacity evaluation