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Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825
May 28-29, 2018
London, UK
Occupational Health 2018
Page 32
4th Edition of International Conference on
Occupational Health and
Safety
Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust provides
specialist occupational health physiotherapy through self-
referral to a population of 15,000 staff. The service is evolving
from a 1:1 traditional care model to a stratified management
pathway of various interventions to optimally meet the variable
needs of the population. Work-related back pain remains a
significant proportion of referrals received within the service
and a predominant cause for sickness and absenteeism. The
aim of this pilot is to investigate the efficiency of a novel and
bespoke one-off workshop for staff that have self-referred with
chronic low back pain; taking the evidence-based approach of
a multi-disciplinary educational workshop to deliver all pertinent
information and provide an exercise component to allow staff
to feel empowered to self-manage their condition. We have
analysed both self-perceived health scores and occupational
health absence, and categorised staff based on their start back
scores. We have found that self-perceived health outcomes
correlate with the risk scoring on the start back questionnaire;
and sickness absence and health outcomes improve during the
three month period, showing this to be an effective intervention
for managing occupational back pain. Back pain is the largest
musculoskeletal referral complaint and has a great impact on
economy and efficiency of any workforce. Significance should
also be placed on the impact this has to the individual, with
regards to their health and wellbeing. Therefore, managing back
pain within any workforce in the most effective way should be a
priority for any organisation.
Biography
Faye Shorthouse completed her Honors degree in Physiotherapy from Univer-
sity of Hertforshire in 2005. She has worked in three large teaching hospitals.
She has specialisation in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Imperial College
Healthcare NHS Trust and completed her MSc in Musculoskeletal Physiother-
apy. In 2015, she became a Specialist Physiotherapist in Occupational Health
Service at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. Presently, she works
clinically withinmusculoskeletal physiotherapy and is Deputy Lead for themus-
culoskeletal physiotherapy team.
A multi-disciplinary educational workshop as
a singular intervention for the management
of chronic spinal pain in hospital workers: a
pilot study
Faye Shorthouse
Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Faye Shorthouse, J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C2-004