Treatment Guides for Common Problems

What are Musculoskeletal Injuries, MSK's, MSD's, RSI, WRULD's?

Have you ever slipped at home, on the sports field, or even at work? Over straining soft tissues and bones can result in damage,  fractures, tears to muscles, ligaments, and soft tissues, with resulting pain and incapacity.

Everyone will slip or trip at some time in their life. Even in the best design of office, or well managed building site, with the most stringent Health & Safety policies in place, accidents can, and do, happen.

The number of people who injur themself at work costs every company thousands of pounds every year

The huge rise in compuer use has resulted in large numbers of people spending hours sitting, stressing, inactive at the computer. Despite the best chairs, many sit with bad posture, not taking breaks and getting strains

However

Every business, no matter what size, has to comply with Health & Safety Law

Even if you are a one man band, with just a part time pa, you have to comply with H&S laws

When someone returns to work after an injury then the employer is required to undertake a risk assessment and where appropriate make suitable adaptations for employee impairment. Positive Rehab provides you with a Competent Person in musculoskeletal disorders, straightforward advice, and policy drafting on the management steps required to ensure that your staff can work safely while you meet your legal requirements

 

Check the following statements. If you answer no to any of them then you will benefit from a specialist competent person in musculoskeletal medicine to safeguard you and comply with H&S regulations

  1. Do you have in house qualified persons capable of diagnosing medical problems  Yes / No
  2. Do you have a competent person who can assess joints and muscles therapeutically Yes / No
  3. Have you trained key staff in prescribing suitable aids and work adaptations         Yes/ No
  4. Do you have dedicated staff to perform ergonomic DSE/ MSD assessment and reports Yes/ No

Acute Injury Treatment is available at our treatment centre in Reading, close to junction 12 M4.

Contact us at jww@positiverehab.co.uk  or phone us on 0118 9594099

Appointment booking for MSD treatment 0845 2570079