NDIS FUNDED EXERCISE

We often hear about NDIS funded exercise programs and how being stronger and fitter can help with daily living activities.

Being an NDIS registered provider, we can offer assessments, support and exercise sessions designed to make you stronger and healthier, which means that you will be able to live longer and with less assistance, improving the quality of your life.

Bold claims, but true. All backed by modern scientific studies and time tested, with over 100 years of exercise practice, including rehabilitation post war, after surgery and injury following chronic disease.

At Physique, we are able to to improve your functional capacity, increase independence, and manage any chronic conditions related to a participant's disability.

These evidence-based, tailored programs aim to enhance physical strength, mobility, and mental well-being, ultimately reducing the need for daily care and support.

We aim to improve your "Functional Capacity" by using targeted exercise programs, which will enhance physical strength, flexibility, and range of motion, making daily activities easier and improving your independence.

We can help you build skills to self-manage your condition, fostering independence and long-term health. This is known as "Capacity Building".

*Exercise supports the management of chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or pain associated with physical/neurological disabilities.

Regular exercise is shown to boost mental health, which reduces anxiety/stress, and improves self-esteem. Strength training, in specific, (weight training, using weights such as dumbbells and barbells or machines) has shown to improve mental wellbeing, mood and significantly reduce depression.

Randomised trials by Harvard and Oxford universities identified that lifting weights reduced cortisol, and helped the body to produce feel good chemicals such as endorphins. These endorphins are the body's own feel good chemicals that produce a positive feeling in the body, elevating mood and reducing pain.

*Professor Wayne Westcott "Exercise is medicine" Pubmed.

Having tailored goals is important as funding is allocated when exercise is deemed "reasonable and necessary" to achieve specific goals in a participant’s plan, such as improving mobility for example.

At Physique we aim to reduce your care needs. By increasing independence and physical function, exercise reduces the level of care and support required from others, such as family members and support workers.

The NDIS typically funds training to assist with function and daily living together with care and support services rather than funding a typical PT or gym membership. Everything we provide at Physique is designed to specifically meet the requirements of your plan goals and will involve a program of exercise and assessment with our AHP's.

Talk to us today about what we can offer you and how we can make you stronger, healthier, fitter, confident and more independent.