The Orthopaedic Center-FPO

Industrial Accidents

All On the Job injuries must be reported to your HR department, who will report it to National Insurance immediately by way of forms.

NIB pays 100%, while all other insurance pays 80% and you pay 20% plus your deductible.

We can only see On the Job injuries who have already seen a Doctor at accident and emergency and is approved my NIB.

If you have any other questions on job related injuries, you can call our office between the hours of 9am to 5:30pm.

Why Physical Therapy Doesn't Work?

There are a number of reasons.
What is Physio Therapy - the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise rather than by drugs or surgery.
Your doctor might suggest this type of treatment if you’ve had an injury or illness that makes it hard to do daily tasks.
Physical therapy (PT) is care that aims to ease pain and help you function, move, and live better. You may need it to:
• Relieve pain
• Improve movement or ability
• Prevent or recover from a sports injury
• Prevent disability or surgery
• Rehab after a stroke, accident, injury, or surgery
• Work on balance to prevent a slip or fall
• Manage a chronic illness like diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis
• Recover after you give birth
• Control your bowels or bladder
• Adapt to an artificial limb
• Learn to use assistive devices like a walker or cane
• Get a splint or brace
People of all ages get physical therapy. It can treat a variety of health problems.

Why does physio therapy fail?

• Non Compliance with Home Exercise Program
For a successful rehabilitation program, the patient must take an active part. That is why a good physical therapist gives the patient home exercises and the patient is expected to do them regularly are prescribed. Equally important is the frequency and duration of the exercises. Just as medications are taken in dosages and frequencies, so are exercises. Some exercises need be done several times a day while some might be done once a day or on alternate days.

• Wrong Exercise Prescription.
Exercises should be individualized based on assessment and patient’s functionality and equally important is timing of when to prescribe the exercises. there are physical therapists who prescribe almost the same exercises during the course of rehabilitation. Same exercises for every back pain. Same exercises for every shoulder problem. Same exercises for every knee pain. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.

• More Passive Than Active Treatments
Since a more accurate way of assessing musculoskeletal problems are dynamic movements more than the usual static postural assessment and provocative tests, it should follow that treatment should also be dynamic and movement based. In many cases, manual therapy works to decrease muscle tone/spasm, increase joint mobility, and relieve pain. But their effect can be short term if they are not followed by exercises to activate the muscles and restore joint functions.

• Premature Discharge from Physical Therapy
While patients/clients should be kept for a long period of repeated sessions; they should not be discharged sooner either. Sometimes patients decide to stop having physiotherapy once they feel better and see some improvements. But pain relief is not the only goal for rehabilitation The most important goal of rehabilitation is return to usual, daily activities without the risk of relapse or re-injury.

• Take care of your body so your body can take care of you.
Your weight, your age, and how much rest your body is allowed are all critical elements to how your body heals, so it is important to be realistic about your recovery goals. Malnutrition and Lack of sleep may be the cost Prolong or even relapse of physical therapy.

• Medical Issues and Ages
Many older adults have weak muscles—due to lack of activity, hospitalization, or surgery. This can cause problems with walking, balance, rising from a chair, and other everyday activities. The risk of falls increases. The therapist may be afraid that you’ll be hurt. If you do intense Training but, if strength training isn’t challenging, it is a waste of time and money. You will still have problems from weak muscles. And you will still be at risk of falls.

• Outdated Techniques Including Assessment and Treatment Procedures
Many traditional treatments have been debunked, thanks to continuing research done to better the profession. Many patients are familiar with physical modalities used in Physio Therapy clinics like ultrasound, TENS, traction machines, hot and cold packs among others. Many of these machines have now been declared as outdated, ineffective or simply unnecessary.