Allied Health

If you’re experiencing difficulty keeping your balance or moving around your home, our allied health team can help you find the best ways to keep you safe and mobile.

This can include:

• Adding handrails or making safety modifications to your home
• Attending group programs such as Find Your Feet to prevent falls and improve balance
• Referrals for the use of equipment and aids such as ramps, toilet aids, shower chairs and wheelie walkers

Our team of health professionals conduct assessments in your home and community to advise you about different products that can help you remain independent in your home.

We provide you with a referral and, in some cases, help you to access state government funding for subsidised aids and equipment. Read more about the Queensland Government’s medical aids funding programs.

The aids and equipment we refer include:

• Mobility aids such as wheelchairs and wheelie walkers
• Daily living aids such as hoists, hand rails and shower chairs
• Continence aids

If you need help adjusting to changes in your life or are having difficulties with illness, injury, or relationships, our social workers can provide education, advice, and support.

There are many reasons why you might want to speak with a social worker:

• Adjusting to a recently diagnosed illness, treatment or injury
• End-of-life support, such as dealing with grief or concerns about death or dying
• Carer issues such as stress, burden or crisis
• Elder abuse, including self-neglect
• Family conflict that interferes with medical treatment or recovery
• Transition into aged care facilities, including the application process
• Financial concerns, mental health and legal issues

Our team of health professionals can help you with the challenges of living with diabetes such as maintaining a healthy weight and keeping health problems at bay. We work with you to find the best solutions and methods of support that you can make part of your everyday life.

Services include:

• Assessment
• Education and group programs
• Dietitian services

If you’re having difficulty managing symptoms associated with a chronic disease, or are in pain, our allied health team can work with you to assess ways to manage your symptoms in a way that best fits your lifestyle.

Services include:

• Assessment
• Education and group programs
• Exercise programs
• Social work
• Therapy, including massage, physiotherapy and acupuncture
• TENS
• Relaxation techniques
• Referrals to clinics

Helps seniors and those living with chronic illness to improve their health and wellbeing through education and exercise programs.

We can assist with a range of supported exercise programs to improve your health and well-being:

• Hydrotherapy sessions (individual and group)
• Find Your Feet programs (falls prevention for seniors)
• Tai Chi for arthritis group classes

If you have an injury, are recovering from surgery, or have a disability, our Physiotherapists can help you regain movement and reduce pain through the use of manual therapies, exercise programs and other techniques.

Services include:

• Assessment
• Exercise programs to improve mobility and strengthen muscles
• Group programs and personalised exercise programs to improve mobility
• Joint manipulation and mobilisation to reduce pain and stiffness
• Muscle re-education to improve control
• Airway clearance techniques and breathing exercises
• Soft tissue mobilisation (massage)
• Acupuncture / dry needling
• Hydrotherapy
• Assistance with the use of aids, splints, crutches, walking sticks and wheelchairs

We offer physiotherapy services to people living in and around:

• Brisbane North
• Gladstone
• Gold Coast
• Hervey Bay
• Ipswich
• Noosa
• North Lakes
• Rockhampton
• Sunshine Coast
• Toowoomba
• Townsville

Read more about physiotherapy on the Australian Physiotherapy Association website

Our Occupational Therapists visit you in your home to assess and advise you on ways to make your home safer and more comfortable. This can include modifications such as installing grab rails in bathrooms, aids that make reaching objects easier, or making changes to the way you do tasks.

Services include:

• Home safety assessments
• Falls prevention advice and group programs
• Equipment prescription, including shower chairs, hoists, and pressure care aids
• Mobility aid prescription, including all types of wheelchairs and wheelie walkers
• Assessment for home modifications, including grab rails, ramps and bathroom modification
• Advice on making daily tasks easier

We offer occupational therapy services to people living in and around:

• Gold Coast
• Ipswich
• Toowoomba
• North Lakes
• Sunshine Coast
• Noosa
• Hervey Bay
• Bundaberg
• Gladstone
• Miriam Vale
• Mount Perry
• Rockhampton
• Mackay
• Townsville
• Cairns

Read more about occupational therapy on the Occupational Therapy Australia website­.

Dietitians provide food and nutrition advice to help you prevent and treat illness and disease through an understanding of the relationship between food and health.

Services include:

• Nutritional assessment and practical recommendations tailored to you
• Nutritional management for conditions such as cancer, heart diseases, depression, COPD, and eating disorders
• Weight management, including weight loss, gain or maintenance
• Nutrition advice for bowel conditions such as constipation, IBS, diverticulitis, and stomas
• Management of chronic conditions such as diabetes and renal disease
• Group programs that focus on education about nutrition and dietetics

We offer dietetics services to people living in and around:

• Gold Coast
• Toowoomba
• North Lakes
• Sunshine Coast
• Bundaberg
• Mount Perry
• Miriam Vale

Read more about dietetics on the Dietitians Association of Australia website.

If you need help with adjusting to changes in your life, or are having difficulties with illness, injury or relationships, our social workers can help you with education, advice and support.

There are many reasons why you might want to speak with a social worker:

• Adjusting to a recently diagnosed illness, treatment or injury
• End-of-life support such as dealing with grief or concerns about death or dying
• Carer issues such as stress, burden or crisis
• Elder abuse, including self-neglect
• Family conflict that interferes with medical treatment or recovery
• Transition into aged care facilities, including the application process
• Financial concerns, mental health and legal issues

We offer social work services to people living in and around:

• Gold Coast
• Brisbane North
• North Lakes
• Sunshine Coast
• Hervey Bay
• Bundaberg
• Miriam Vale
• Mount Perry

Our Exercise Physiologists can help you to prevent and manage injuries and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, through the use of personalised exercise programs. We show you how to incorporate exercise in a way that suits your lifestyle, so you can reduce pain and improve your heart health, general health, and wellbeing.

Services include:

• Development of safe, effective, personalised exercise plans
• Assessing movement capacity in people of all ages
• Health education, advice and support
• Group programs such as Lung in Action
• Physical activity advice and clinical exercise prescription for those at high-risk of developing, or with existing, chronic health conditions
• Rehabilitation and advice following the acute stage of injury, surgery, or recovery

We offer exercise physiology services to people living in and around:

• North Lakes
• Sunshine Coast
• Miriam Vale
• Mount Perry

Read more about exercise physiology on the Exercise and Sports Science website.

Our Podiatrists are qualified health professionals specialising in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders, medical and surgical conditions of the feet and lower limbs.

Services include:

• Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of foot and lower limb conditions
• Foot checks to test foot mobility, sensitivity and injury
• Treatment of ulcers, infections and related problems
• Education for those with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, arthritis and neuropathy that affect the feet and lower limbs
• General foot care, toe-nail clipping and treatment of hard nails, bunions and hammertoes
• Assessment and provision of orthotics for foot correction

We offer podiatry services to people living in and around:

• Ipswich

Read more about podiatry on the Australasian Podiatry Council website.