Health & Wellbeing Assessment
Health & Wellbeing Assessment
At Limitless Physiotherapy & Performance, we help thousands of people every year to improve their pain levels, lifestyle and exercise and sporting performance. This all contributes to a better quality of life. We are huge advocates for maintaining physical activity and exercise at all ages. Our bodies are designed to move and perform physical activity. Research suggests that a moderate amount of physical activity a day (up to 21 minutes) can limit your all-cause risk of death by up to 30%. For example, exercising moderately can reduce the risk of colon or breast cancer diagnosis by 30-60%, and Alzheimer’s Disease by 40-50%.
Research clearly shows that the risk of diagnoses of serious illness can be reduced, simply, by moving more.
But these aren’t the only benefits. By incorporating more movement:
- We are likely going to lose weight/maintain a healthy weight. This benefits our joints, which will be looser, reducing pain.
- Our muscles will be stronger for longer, meaning day to day things like getting out of a chair, getting out of bed, reaching up to the top cupboard etc, will all be achievable for longer.
- Our bone mass strength will be better, which is great for reducing our risk of osteoporosis and subsequently fractures.
- Our balance will be better for daily tasks and hobbies.
Research also shows that incorporating a healthy diet can prevent:
- Alzheimers Disease (Morris et al., 2015)
- Cardiovascular disease (Diab et al., 2023)
- Stroke (Chhabra et al., 2023)
- COPD (Bejers et al., 2023).
- Rheumatoid arthritis (Nikiphorou & Philippou, 2023)
- Get to the root cause of the issue to get long lasting results, not just short term relief
Our Physiotherapists can help you to guide and educate you to make smarter nutritional choices that can help to maintain a healthy weight. Relative to normal weight, obesity has been shown to be associated with significantly higher all-cause mortality from various diseases (Flegal et al., 2013).
Dietary changes can also help to influence and reduce your pain experience when the pain is as a result of an inflammatory origin (Bjorkland et al., 2019).
At Limitless Physiotherapy and Performance we are passionate about PREVENTION. We want to help you prevent potential illness’ or injuries by helping you put strategies and plans in place to live a better life pain, injury and illness free for as long as possible.
What We Offer:
Health & Prevention Assessments
We are offering in-clinic health and prevention assessments. This health assessment will involve a full screening of your lifestyle with topics like diet, hydration, exercise levels, step count and sleep all discussed.
Medical Checks
This will be followed up by a check up of medical ‘vital signs’ which include your blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature. This will give us an indication of how your heart and lungs are functioning.
Movement Assessment
After this, we will take your body through a full movement assessment to check the range of motions of your joints and flexibility of your muscles. This will give us a good indication of if you have any signs of osteoarthritis or tight muscles. Then, we will take you through a full body strength and balance test which will alert us to any weakness you may have.
Exercise Tests
Finally, we will take you through a small number of exercise tests, which will allow us to assess heart and lung capacity as well as functional strength levels.
Bespoke Plan Creation
After we have gathered all of this data, it will allow us to put together a plan specific to your needs, giving you the best chance to prevent future illness’ or injuries. This plan will be designed to be an ongoing program, so we can progress and improve over the following months and years.
It doesn’t matter if you are active 7 days a week with no issues, or if you are someone that gets pain after walking 5 minutes or standing up from a chair; we believe you will all benefit from getting a health check.
This programme is optimal for individuals who want to make a difference and want to continue to live an enjoyable life without worrying about aging and its associated difficulties. We want to work with people who are committed to bettering themselves everyday over a long and consistent period of time.
If this sounds like you, get in touch and make a difference to your future self now!
What are the benefits?
- Receive an individualised plan to improve your lifestyle, including diet, exercise and sleep.
- Receive your personalised report of your health assessment allowing you to visualise your current status and performance
- Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
- Reduce the risk of conditions such as dementia
- Ensure you can continue to enjoy your favourite hobbies, sports and activities
- Improve your confidence
- Improve your mental health
- Improve your sleep
- Reduce your risk of injuries and overcome old injuries
- Lose weight and body fat
- Improve your sports and exercise performance
Plan of Care
Your physiotherapist recommend a plan of care with the number of recommended follow up appointments likely required to achieve your goals and get back to what you love doing most. Having an agreed plan of care will increase your chance of success and be cost effective at the same time.
To read more about the treatment techniques your physiotherapist may use during your appointments click here. It is expected for you to actively take control in your rehabilitation through completing the home exercises and self-care techniques your physiotherapist prescribes. This will help to ensure you achieve your goals. Your physiotherapist will support you along the way to overcome any barriers and ensure you are confident with the plan.
Follow up appointments
Your follow-up appointments within the treatment plan are an opportunity for us to re-assess your situation and ensure you are progressing towards achieving your goals.
We may change or progress your prescribed exercises, provide further education and advice, or provide manual therapy techniques if appropriate.
Rule out red flags
When assessing an musculoskeletal injury or complaint it is important to rule out potentially more medically serious conditions through asking specific questions. This helps to ensure our service is appropriate for you.
Provide a Diagnosis
An accurate diagnosis helps us to plan the treatment plan of care effectively, ensuring you achieve optimal results and get back to doing the things you love most.
Understand the bigger picture
As well as diagnosing your injury, it is important for us to get to know your story. This is because there can sometimes be several factors that are contributing to your injury or pain. Understanding this will help to ensure your treatment plan is effective.
Help you to understand your injury
Through ensuring you understand your injury, body and the contributing factors to what you are experiencing, it can help you to self-manage your pain and successfully achieve your goals on the road to recovery and better health.
Devise a treatment plan
We will work with you to devise individualised goals, whilst identifying any potential barriers to achieving your goals.
We will discuss with you the suggested plan of care to maximise your results.
Commence one to one sessions
We will help you to reduce your symptoms/pain and take you through specific individualised movement techniques and exercises to help you achieve the your goals we devised in the treatment plan. We will also best advise you on how you can perform these movements and exercises on your own.
Rule out red flags
When assessing an musculoskeletal injury or complaint it is important to rule out potentially more medically serious conditions through asking specific questions. This helps to ensure our service is appropriate for you.
Provide a Diagnosis
An accurate diagnosis helps us to plan the treatment plan of care effectively, ensuring you achieve optimal results and get back to doing the things you love most.
Understand the bigger picture
As well as diagnosing your injury, it is important for us to get to know your story. This is because there can sometimes be several factors that are contributing to your injury or pain. Understanding this will help to ensure your treatment plan is effective.
Help you to understand your injury
Through ensuring you understand your injury, body and the contributing factors to what you are experiencing, it can help you to self-manage your pain and successfully achieve your goals on the road to recovery and better health.
Devise a treatment plan
We will work with you to devise individualised goals, whilst identifying any potential barriers to achieving your goals.
We will discuss with you the suggested plan of care to maximise your results.
Commence one to one sessions
We will help you to reduce your symptoms/pain and take you through specific individualised movement techniques and exercises to help you achieve the your goals we devised in the treatment plan. We will also best advise you on how you can perform these movements and exercises on your own.
Our Digital Edge
Your personalised exercise program and education centre through the world leading Physitrack App.
We subscribe to the Physitrack App which allows your physiotherapist to design you a personalised exercise program through the app. After your initial assessment, you will be able to download the app for free and work your way through your exercises, with videos and clear instructions accompanying the exercises, which ensures you can be confident you are completing the exercises correctly. You will be able to access the latest educational resources to help you succeed on your journey.
The Physitrack app is scientifically proven to increase your adherence to home exercises and increase your confidence, which is strongly associated with successful outcomes in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
Click the following link to see the research: American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: October 2019 – Volume 98 – Issue 10 – p 850–858.
