Educational Sessions
At the Newcastle Sports Injury Clinic we offer a range of tailor made education sessions. The emphasis of these sessions is mainly on prevention of common work related disorders. These sessions can be especially useful if a common problem has been identified in the work force. We can also visit your workplace and help identify common potential musculoskeletal problems and develop a program to suit your needs. We are able to work with individual employees on a one on one basis or with groups of any size.
Popular sessions utilised by companies include:
- Manual Handling – to educate individuals to lift, lower, fill, empty or carry loads correctly
- Prevention of spinal problems, including lower back and neck
- Prevention of work related upper limb disorders
- Work load and environment management training
- Office awareness and ergonomic training
From hair dressing salons and beauticians to blacksmiths workshops we have a wide range of experience in adapting and tailoring our sessions to the varying needs of our clients. This has enabled us to develop a fully adaptable and flexible approach to training.
We have undertaken audits of some of the training sessions we have completed recently. Consistently we have extremely positive feedback highlighting our ability to adapt sessions to the needs of specific companies. Of the respondents to the feedback 100% found the sessions interesting and informative. 93% felt the level of the training was “just right”. 87% of participants felt the training immediately influenced their working practice and of those 85% had already seen physical benefits at three month follow up.
We believe that educating your employees about the causes of common musculoskeletal conditions is the key to empowering peoople to prevent them. Our sessions inculde a certain amoutn of functional anatomy relating that information to movement and postures so that participants can fully understand how their body is affected by different postures. We are then able to inform the groups on affective prevention and injury management strategies. We can arrange for a single therapist or group or therapists to complet the training depending on group size and needs of the group. Training may be provided as a series of sessions which can be built upon and refreshed on an annual basis.
“Everyone should take part in training sessions like these” (Participant in a manual handling course).
