MUSCULOSKELETAL REHABILITATION PROGRAMME
The OraKinetics Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Programme provides corrective exercise prescription and training for individuals who have completed ACC funded treatment but who are either not ready to return-to-work/competitive sports or who need ongoing exercise support.
The objectives of this programme are to:
- Provide ongoing tailored strength, flexibility, and neuromuscular training after musculoskeletal medical care (e.g., surgery and physiotherapy)
- Utilise safe and evidence-based corrective exercise strategies to restore post-surgery and post-injury functionality
- Provide safe tailored corrective training for individuals with longstanding musculoskeletal problems (e.g., lower back pain, chronic pain, supraspinatus tendinitis)
- Identify and correct abnormal/faulty movement patterns with activation exercises
- Maintain and optimise the range of motion of joints (e.g., after hip or knee replacement surgery)
- Restore muscle strength imbalances, proprioception, and neuromuscular control of post-surgical patients (e.g., cruciate ligament repair, joint replacement)
Eligible candidates
The following type of patients could benefit in particular from our ongoing supervised musculoskeletal rehabilitation programme:
- Pre-surgery patients to enhance post-surgery recovery
- Chronic pain
- Post-surgery (e.g., ankle, knee, shoulder
- and back)
- Joint replacement (e.g., hip or knee)
- Recurrent or chronic low back, neck
- or shoulder pain
- Musculoskeletal injury patients returning to physically demanding jobs
- Athletes recovering from sports injuries in
- need of sport-specific reconditioning
- Individuals struggling with chronic musculoskeletal conditions due to abnormal movement patterns as a result of a previous injury, muscle imbalances or a sedentary lifestyle
Pre- and post-programme assessment
Our comprehensive pre-and post rehabilitation assessment includes:
- Injury progress/treatment history
- Postural alignment
- Screening for abnormal movement patterns
- Passive and active range of motion
- Strength testing of individual muscles to determine agonist/antagonist strength ratios and to screen for activation inhibition issues
Exercise programme
Adequate musculoskeletal recovery (e.g., being ready to compete or confidently performing physically demanding activities of daily living) requires ongoing individualised corrective training to restore structural and functional efficiency.
We utilise a systematic assessment process and develop tailored integrative corrective strategies, to address structural and functional efficiency limitations which may have resulted from surgery, previous injury or a sedentary lifestyle.
Participant support
The patients perform exercises under constant supervision and are monitored for discomfort or pain on a daily basis.
Download the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Programme brochure here.