Service List
- Casting, splinting and orthotics
- Corporate services
- Falls prevention
- Feldenkrais method
- Hand therapy
- Home visiting service
- Hydrotherapy
- In-hospital physiotherapy
- Lymphoedema management
- Onsite workplace physiotherapy
- Pelvic floor and continence training
- Pre- and post-natal physiotherapy
- Rehabilitation
- Spinal fitness classes
- Sports physiotherapy
- Sports team coverage
- Work injuries and rehabilitation
- Snow Fit classes
Casting, Splinting and Orthotics
Flex Out Physiotherapy supply and fit a variety of synthetic and waterproof casts and thermoplastic splints. These include:
- Fibreglass casts in a variety of colours;
- Fully water proof gortex casts;
- Heat mouldable foot orthotics;
- A variety of custom made and ‘off-the-shelf’ thermoplastic splints and guards.
Our experienced Physiotherapists are available to provide on-site power point presentations, demonstrations and assessments in regards to ergonomics, work station set-up, injury prevention and manual handling training. Education seminars can be tailored to your specific needs, whether it be 1:1 or for large groups.
One in three adults over age 65 falls each year. Of all the fractures requiring a hospital stay, about 50% are the result of falls. Flex Out Physiotherapy designs effective group and individual exercise programs to improve strength, balance and functional mobility, in accordance with current falls prevention and treatment guidelines. We also advise on mobility aids and optimising client safety while moving around at home.
What Is the Feldenkrais Method?
The Feldenkrais Method® facilitates learning about movement, posture and breathing to ultimately increase the ease and range of our movement, improve flexibility and coordination. “The aim is a body that is organised to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength but increased consciousness of how it works.” - M. Feldenkrais
Who Can Benefit?
- People of all ages, from babies and children through to senior citizens;
- Dancers, musicians, atheletes or actors with recurrent injury and pain or simply wishing to improve performance;
- People whose work may involve repetitive tasks;
- People interested in preventing or relieving stiffness pain or strain;
- People living with difficulties such as Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, injury or learning difficulties.
What Are the Benefits?
- Improve and maintain health and well-being;
- Greater clarity in sensing, thinking and feeling;
- Discover how habitual posture can contribute to pain and limit movement;
- Learn new and easier ways to do familiar tasks;
- Improve balance, increase flexibility and coordination;
- Breathe more fully and deeply;
- Recognise and ease tension.
How Is It Taught?
- Awareness Through Movement Lessons (ATM): ATM lessons are usually taught in groups on a weekly basis. A Feldenkrais practitioner guides the clients through a planned sequence of movement explorations. Attention is drawn to the process of each movement pattern. Through observing their movements, clients learn easier ways of moving in everyday activities. Exploration of movement in these classes is designed to improve overall wellbeing.
- Individual Lessons Called Functional Integration (FI): This is a hands on process which addresses particular individual problems. FI lessons are tailored to each client's needs. The Feldenkrais practitioner guides your movements through precise touch. The clients lies or sits, comfortably clothed, on a low padded table. The practitioner brings present habits into focus and offers new movement options. The learning is then applied to everyday activities such as reaching, sitting, standing and walking.
Flex Out Physiotherapy provides rehabilitation of the hand and upper limb following trauma (fractures, dislocations and sprains), elective procedures (tendon repairs), sporting injuries, and cumulative trauma / repetitive strain injuries. These include tennis elbow, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome and many tendonosis type problems that occur as a result of overuse. Treatment aims to restore function by improving movement and strength, decreasing pain, decreasing swelling, normalising sensation and improving mobility of scar tissue.
To ease the burden of travel and organising transportation, Flex Out Physiotherapy offers a complete home visit service for those patients unable to attend our clinics. As part of this service, a physiotherapist will bring the necessary equipment for the home visit, including massage cream, towels, and exercise equipment. Home visits can be arranged for times most suited to you.
Flex Out Physiotherapy offers fully supervised hydrotherapy at the Albury Base Hospital hydrotherapy pool. The physiotherapist is in the pool with you at all times and will guide you through your rehabilitation program. All that is required before starting your hydrotherapy program is to fill in a medical questionnaire and a land based pre-assessment to allow the physiotherapist to design a highly individualised and effective program. Patients covered under Veterans Affairs are entitled to attend hydrotherapy as are Workers Compensation patients with prior approval that we arrange through your insurance company.
Flex Out is affiliated with the Murray Valley Private Hospital in Wodonga providing in-patient rehabilitation services. In addition to this, all patients at Albury Wodonga Private Hospital have visiting rights.
As part of the ongoing assistance to some of our local sports teams, Flex Out is involved in providing physiotherapy cover for teams and sporting events in the area.
Flex Out Physiotherapy's lymphoedema management service offers:
- Comprehensive initial assessment;
- Individually tailored treatment programs;
- Complex lymphatic therapy;
- Education;
- Manual lymph drainage;
- Exercise prescription;
- Graduated compression garment prescriptions.
Onsite Workplace Physiotherapy
Currently, Flex Out Physiotherapy provides onsite physiotherapy services to a number of companies within North East Victoria (Carter Holt Harvey Timber Mill at Myrtleford, the Woolworths Distribution Center at Barnawartha, Uncle Toby’s at Wahgunyah and Cleanaway Waste Services in Wodonga). At each site, our physiotherapists have developed individual programs for employers, based on the nature of their employee tasks. The workplace needs have been assessed through constant communication between the physiotherapists, area managers and the occupational health and safety (OH and S) team. These services are constantly reviewed and modified to ensure the best possible service is provided to all stakeholders.
Kevin Laws has extensive experience in conducting and implementing these services. Kevin was the OH and S manager for a military base of 5,000 staff. He was responsible for co-coordinating eight area managers, twenty four local OH and S officers, six physiotherapists and eight rehabilitation physical training instructors.
The success of our onsite programs was demonstrated when in 2006 the Flex Out Physiotherapy OH and S Program at Carter Holt Harvey Timber Mill was a finalist in the Victoria Worksafe Awards.
Pelvic Floor and Continence Training
One in three women and one in ten men in Australia experience incontinence. A number of factors cause incontinence including pregnany and childbirth, pelvic surgery, prostate problems, hormonal changes during menopause and certain medications. Research shows that a regular program of pelvic floor exercise does make a difference!
Pre- and Post-natal Physiotherapy
When you are pregnant, and in the months immediately after giving birth, strain can be placed on the body, which can result in lower back pain, pelvic pain and other conditions. Flex Out Physiotherapists are trained and experienced in dealing with pregnant and post-natal patients. Our physiotherapists can offer treatment and practical advice for preventing or minimising recurrence.
Flex Out Physiotherapy provides follow up physiotherapy for clients who have been recently injured or discharged from hospital. Our physiotherapists are experienced in managing a range of neurological, cardiorespiratory and orthopaedic conditions.
The Flex Out Spinal Fitness Classes run once a week for an hour, and incorporate all the strength and stretching exercises you ‘should’ be doing for your back, but often don’t. The class combines floor exercises, fitball exercises, yoga based stretches and utilises the Pilate’s principle of abdominal control and breathing. | DATES: | As per NSW school term (10 week term) | |||||
| TIMES: | Monday to Friday: Early Morning, Mid-Morning, and Evening. (Numbers permitting) | |||||
| WHERE: | Albury Clinic at Suite 2, Level 2, The Gardens, Wodonga Place, Albury | |||||
| COST: | $180 for 10 week term (rebates can be claimed through most private health funds). | |||||
From the weekend sports player to the seasoned professional, sports injuries are a common occurrence in life. Flex Out Physiotherapy is committed to providing clients with fast, effective and thorough assessments and treatment programs to get clients back in the game as soon as possible. We work with you to make sure the real cause of your condition is corrected and the chance of future problems is minimised. In order to achieve this, physiotherapy services may include the provision of:
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Work Injuries and Rehabilitation
All physiotherapists at Flex Out Physiotherapy are WorkCover accredited therapists who regularly treat and manage Workers Compensation injuries. As part of this service, our physiotherapists are able to perform:
- Workplace assessments to help determine the type and availability of suitable duties. This may then help the nominated treating doctor to determine a safe return to work on appropriate duties;
- Functional assessment to determine a workers functional capacity and their suitability to return to work or another job;
- Pre-employment screening, to assess a workers ability to safely perform the functional components of the prospective job.
The Snow Fit Class is a pre-winter exercise program designed to keep you injury free and on the slopes for as long and often as you want over the snow season. The program focuses on strengthening the legs, abs, back and arms. It also challenges your balance, core strength and stability – all things that are challenged while you are on the slopes. The 10 week program commences once yearly, every April.
