Whether individual therapies or a more comprehensive program is required our specific objectives are to assist you to assist the patient 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 to ensure that the service we provide is aligned to best possible practice.

• Clinical Framework For the Delivery of Health Services (PDF 1.3MB)

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. As a result, he has published 2 papers:

Currently he has presentations at Australian Pain Society, ACT Health, International Neuromodulation Society, Spine Intervention Society, and Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand.

The next project is exploring the influence of pre-treatment expectation on the outcome of that treatment.

• Relief of Painful Thoracic Zygapophysial Joints by Thermal Neurotomy (PDF 1MB)