About Us
What will we do?
Our advice is tailored for each person to gain continued benefit from the assessments after we leave. Simple, effective, achievable exercises may be given to reduce any office stiffness and discomfort. Your company will be able to refer to these recommendations anytime with its own personal record of the session.
The DSE assessments are between 20-30 minutes long, two per hour. Some will not want, or need, all this time and others will. Maybe, a little more depending on issues they are facing.
We allow 5-10 minutes for paper work in between each client to accurately record the session. We accommodate for all clientele and allow for all musculo-skeletal health related questions.
We also know you are busy people and want to maximise your time with us, so we will make our sessions as succinct and relevant as possible, based on the information you provide before and during the session. We will work closely with you to achieve this.
We provide a summary for each individual, as standard, for your reference, recommendations on what type of equipment you may benefit from, exercises suggested and advice on ideal positioning of you and your equipment. We will give recommendations but understand your work space is a personal space.
For physiotherapy we will use the same timing structure. We can provide a couch and equipment but we will need a safe, private, space to work from.
Why do we need DSE Assessments?
Some workers may experience fatigue, eye strain, upper limb problems and backache from overuse or improper use of DSE. These problems can also be experienced from poorly designed and configured workstations or work environments.
The causes may not always be obvious and are often due to a combination of factors and together, put our health at risk.
Many companies can benefit from but do not have, high quality DSE assessments as standard. Instead, an option is to pursue a generic approach to office healthcare and only cover basic legal bases. We would like to see this change.
Those that take a long-term outlook on staff health, especially if retention and reduction of sick days are in mind, will benefit from this service.
With staff having a higher level of standard expectation, worldwide options at their fingertips and job uncertainty, taking care of staff, with quality healthcare, is likely to help with retention and output quality, especially if long hours and high focus are required.
A study by Sabil (et al 2003) highlights: ‘the pivotal role of employee welfare, spanning healthcare benefits, workplace safety, and a supportive organizational culture, in shaping a positive work environment. Recognizing the strategic advantage in linking employee well-being to organizational success emerges as crucial for attracting and retaining top talent…..positioning employee welfare as a strategic imperative for sustained success’
This is likely to be associated with profitably. It would be fair to say, we work our best in a competitive but safe environment, where we feel valued.
Injuries from the work place can often be avoided and are best treated before they become chronic at between 3-6 months, before they become distracting and debilitating. The best place to prevent these insidious injuries, from hours spent in focused work, are in the environment where they often begin. In the office.
How can sitting cause injury? It is where we spend 30% of our lives and where posture rarely crosses our mind until we have pain. It is where our joints are not protected, as often, by muscular control, or perform repetitive micro-movements time and time again.
Valentis Works aims to improve awareness, provide useful advice about biomechanics and habitual causes of injury in advance. We will treat and help prevent injury for the long-term, aiding physical and mental health.
We can all benefit from the unique input of allowing some focus on what our bodies are actually doing day to day, ways to tune into and optimise our position, to avoid detrimental stress to the body.
Changing or adapting our daily sitting positions will feel odd because we are not used to it, not because it is wrong. In almost all cases change is inevitable, managed well, it should lead to progressive improvement or at least, prevent avoidable injury.
Your Practitioner
My name is Robert Holloway, founder of Valentis Works. I am a physiotherapist with 15 years of experience, 10 years focused in musculoskeletal private practise with a passion to especially prevent and treat head, neck, back and shoulder pain and extensive experience in the lower limb and sporting injuries.
I studied in Nottingham and graduated my BSc (Hons) in 2010. I am BUPA registered, a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and passionate about physiotherapy effectiveness both in education and hands on practice.
Hands on treatments combined with advice and exercise, in my experience, yield the best results. I apply these skills with a combination of client history and technical observation to identify areas of dysfunction and create and effective tailored treatment.
My interest in DSE assessments stems from practical experience and always looking for the ‘why’ in the pain. More often than not, it is awareness and adaption of our daily habits, that takes us on the road to resolution.