Welcome to ProActive Rehabilitation & Health
If you are from the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie or Lower Hunter Valley and need assistance with rehabilitation, Pilates, core stability or fitness, then ProActive Rehabilitation & Health is at your service - focusing on a wide range of health and fitness needs.
If you have had a injury or accident recently at work, ProActive Rehabilitation & Health can ensure you a speedy recovery under consultation from your doctor with their qualified exercise physiologists.
Work conditioning, work hardening programs and cognitive behaviour therapy mean that you will be fit for work, activities of daily living, and returning to your normal lifestyle.
Work Related Activity Programs are provided by ProActive Rehabilitation & Health to rehabilitate clients who have sustained injuries in the workplace, or as a result of motor vehicle accidents (MVA). The programs are fully supervised by an accredited Exercise Physiologist and can be delivered at a location close to the client. The program is focussed on the re-education of movement to provide long term sustainable change and ensure that a client can make a full return to the workforce, either in their selected duties or to provide assistance with retraining for an alternative occupation.
These include diabetes, obesity, musculo-skeletal injuries (including lumbar and cervical spine injuries as well as chronic conditions of the knees and shoulders), heart disease, high blood pressure and arthritis. These services can also assist clients with dementia, depression and stroke victims.
Core stability ensures control and awareness of movement to develop the muscles that support the spine, resulting in improved posture, increased power and strength, and longer, leaner muscles. Core stability also provides the basis for the most effective means of rehabilitating lower back pain.
ProActive Rehabilitation & Health also conducts Pilates classes and Hydrotherapy Program to suit your particular rehabilitation or health and fitness goals, and to ensure that clients are educated correctly to achieve their goals - whether rehabilitation, weight loss, stability or fitness.
If you need help with any of these services mentioned above, or are a doctor or rehabilitation provider who would like to refer a patient to our professional and friendly staff, please call Mark Goswell on 0411 447674 or use our Online Referral Form.
WHAT IS AN EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST?Exercise Physiologists are university trained and complete a minimum 4 years of training ensuring specialist treatment and extensive knowledge of the human body and delivery of programs for special populations and injury management. An Exercise Physiologist is a qualified specialist in the management and treatment of chronic injuries. They also deliver preventative strategies for disease prevention, and the development of function (ability to move) as part of establishing and sustaining independence in life through the use of exercise and the development of management techniques. The benefits of Exercise Physiology services is that you are educated on the most effective methods to manage your injury on a long term basis through exercise prescription specifically designed to the individual. Programs can be designed to be completed around the home, office, gym, pool or any facility suited to the client’s location and financial situation. |
ProActive Rehabilitation & Health provide all of these services at the following gymnasiums and pools:
- Lifestyle Pilates and Rehabilitation Studio
- Genetics Fitness Club, Warners Bay
- Fitness Revolution, Gateshead
- Fitness at Viking, Elermore Vale
- Balance Health, New Lambton
- Balance Health, Mayfield
- The Forum, Newcastle University and Honeysuckle
- Planet Fitness, New Lambton
- Genesis Health Club, Maitland and Warners Bay
- Total Fitness, Cessnock
- Hit n Dip, Greenhills
- Salamander Bay Fitness, Salamander Bay
- Coughlan's Swim Centre, Warners Bay
- Toronto Swim Centre, Toronto
- The Forum, Newcastle University
- Hit n Dip, Greenhills
- Pelaw Main Hydrotherapy, Pelaw Main
- Caves Beach Fitness, Swansea
- PCYC, Raymond Terrace
- Fit Life Health Club, Cooranbong
Why Choose ProActive Rehabilitation & Health?
Focus on Re-education of Movement – ProActive Rehabilitation & Health’s exercise physiologists train and educate clients on the necessary means to re-educate their movement to allow for greater awareness and improved mobility. This improved awareness of their movements achieves a significant reduction in aggravation to the injured site allowing for greater increases in function and therefore potential for an increase in their ADL’s or a return to work.
Personalised Relationships and Programs – The supervised sessions are one on one so the exercise physiologist gains an excellent understanding of the clients capabilities, therefore you can be guaranteed that the exercise therapist can provide you with accurate information of the clients abilities in returning to work or upgrading their duties
Customer Service - The exercise physiologist that is assigned to your client is responsible for maintaining up to date information as to the improvements and progress that your client is making. All exercise physiologists maintain an excellent working and caring relationship for the client to provide an excellent opportunity for them to reach their maximum potential for recovery.
Easy Access for Clients - ProActive Rehabilitation & Health has access to facilities around Lake Macquarie, Newcastle and Lower Hunter regions ensuring that there is a facility that is centrally located to your client, which means reduced travel time for your employee and a reduction in lost hours in the workplace.
Self Management Programs - Programs promote the undertaking of independent and home based exercises as early as possible as a way of developing their self management techniques. Clients are provided with easy to follow exercise training sheet and training diaries to note their progress.
Negotiable Programs - The WRAP is negotiable to suit the needs of the client. The length of the program can range from 1 to 20 sessions (8 being standard) depending on the nature of the client’s injuries and their specific individual needs.
Independent Physiotherapists – Independent assessments means that there is no risk of bias to the clients needs. If the client is not suited to a WRAP then they will not be referred. The physiotherapist’s best interest is with the well being of the client.
Capacity to Travel – for clients who live outside of the local area and do not have access to the facilities available, ProActive Rehabilitation & Health will travel to the client and establish a program at a facility close to them or within the home environment.