Capital Pain and Rehabilitation Clinic is committed to liaising with insurance companies, case managers and rehabilitation providers.

For Healthcare Professionals

For Insurers/Rehab providers

Capital Pain and Rehabilitation Clinic is committed to liaising with insurance companies, case managers and rehabilitation providers. Whether individual therapies or a more comprehensive program is required our specific objectives are to assist you to assist your client to:


  • increase working capacity/participation
  • return to work
  • return to normal independent daily activities
  • resume and/or promote a productive and healthy lifestyle
  • gain physical reconditioning including strength, stamina and flexibility
  • develop and employ successful stress and pain management strategies
  • improve ability to self-manage and reduce reliance on medical management.


Assessment of the patient’s injury, chronicity of pain including type and severity, related mood, function and psychosocial factors enable us to tailor a treatment plan that utilises our multi-disciplinary capacity to cover medical, physical, psychological and educational aspects of treatment. We ensure that we closely follow the “Clinical Framework for the delivery of health services” to ensure that the service we provide is aligned to best possible practice including:

  • Help the injured person return to health and work
  • Set goals and measure their treatment progress to keep the recovery on track
  • Ensuring that treatment is based on the best available research evidence
  • Most importantly helping them understand and manage their condition as best as they can.


Furthermore:

  • Measurement and demonstration of the effectiveness of treatment
  • Adoption of a biopsychosocial approach
  • Goals focused on optimising function, participation and return to work
  • Empowering the injury employee to manage the injury, and
  • Basing treatment on best available through such evidence.

Research projects/Publications & Presentations

Dr Speldewinde is committed to giving back to the medical community by publishing papers on treatments we offer. Information on the outcomes of treatments has been gathered over the last 2 decades and been compiled into papers for other health professionals to better understand the effectiveness of our services.


Dr Speldewinde has been gathering information on the outcomes of treatments he has offered over more than 3 decades. As a result, he has published several papers of his work in prestigious journals: