Pysiotherapists:flexible friends

Dame Carol Black national director of health and work, recommended the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to help improve the health and wellbeing of individuals.

Employers often lack knowledge of how occupational physiotherapists can be used to aid productivity. Poor support for those in the early stages of illness and a lack of communication between stakeholders may also exacerbate the problem of sickness absence and ill health.

Yet physiotherapists can help both the therapeutic aspects of treatment and the impact on psychosocial issues such as morale and anxiety and there are cost benefits in relation to productivity and sickness absence.



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