Office Services

To help business to cope with the impact of back pain related absences from the work place, we offer a service to local business community. This includes a presentation to the work place addressing the importance of good spinal function with special emphasis on good work practice and ergonomics. Each employee will undergo an initial spinal health assessment and can follow up any spinal concerns with a full spinal evaluation at the Todays Healthcare Clinic.

It is important to note that back pain is the single largest reported cause of absence from work and a leading cause of disability.

• Musculoskeletal problems are the second highest cause of sickness absence in our Trusts and we have found rapid access to an osteopath can prevent or reduce sickness absence and allow employees to benefit physically from early intervention

• An estimated 11.6 million working days a year are lost to work-related MSDs

• An MSD accounted for around one in eight people who were issued a sick note

• The average length of time certified for those with MSDs was 10 weeks, almost 2 weeks more than the average for all conditions

• Long-term absence – which is mainly due to stress, anxiety and depression and to back pain and other musculoskeletal disorders – accounts for 40% of lost working time

• Osteopathy plays an important role in occupational health and has been included in examples of best practice cited by UK Health and Safety Executive

• Osteopathic advice on manual handling and workstation ergonomics contributes to injury prevention and osteopathic treatment assists a rapid return to work in conditions such as muscle and tendon injuries, repetitive strain injury, neck and low back pain,
and sciatica

Evidence indicates that employees are often able to remain at work, or return to work in approximately eight chiropractic treatments.