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Rehabilitation
Service Departments : 
      
Support
Teams :
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Back
Team
1. Introduction
The Back Team of MacLehose Medical Rehabilitation Centre (MMRC)
aims at providing specialized, holistic quality service to people
with back problems.
2. Members of the Back Team in
MMRC
 Medical
Practitioner
Clinical
Psychologist
Medical
Social Worker
Nurse
Physiotherapist
Occupational
Therapist
3. Chronic Back Programme in MMRC
(a joint programme between MacLehose Medical Rehabilitation Centre
& The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay)
3.1
Team members involved in this programme include:
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Orthopaedic
surgeon - who leads the team and be responsible for the overall
assessment and treatment programme |
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Occupational
therapist - who provides assessment and training in activities
of daily living and work areas |
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Physiotherapist
- who performs physical assessment and training, such as posture,
body mechanics, stamina and endurance etc |
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Physiologist
- who provides information on the physiological assessment,
such as respiratory and cardiac functions |
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Clinical
psychologist - who is responsible for the psychological assessment,
adjustment and coping mechanisms to pain |
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Medical
social worker - who provides social and financial assessment,
individual and family counselling, job placement |
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Bioengineer
- who carries out assessment and research |
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Interventional
radiologist - who assists in diagnosis of spinal pathologies |
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Anaesthetist - who performs pain assessment and treatment |
3.2
Clients who fulfil the following criteria will be admitted to the
programme:
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Failed back surgery
syndrome |
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Chronic back pain
(> 3 months) without previous surgical intervention or significant
organic findings |
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Age <55 |
3.3
The programme is a 14 weeks' intensive rehabilitation
programme for clients with chronic back problem. The Physiotherapy,
Occupational Therapy and Clinical Psychology Departments will be
the main service providers in the programme.
In this programme, DKCH
will be the main assessor while MMRC is mainly responsible for treatment.
Assessments will be done in the 1st week (initial), 8th week (midway)
and 14th week (final). Treatment is from the 2nd to 13th week of
the programme and is divided into 3 phases.
Phase I - physical conditioning
(5 weeks)
Phase II - work conditioning (4 weeks)
Phase III - work readiness (3 weeks)
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