University of the Sunshine Coast
We collaborate with USC on exercise and wellbeing research, including the development of the wellbeing app used in our mental health program.
About
A practice built around the claim, not the clinic
Rehab Insight is an exercise physiology practice specialising in compensable rehabilitation across Queensland.
Zak Kharoofa
Director and Senior Exercise Physiologist
Zak holds a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology and is accredited with Exercise & Sports Science Australia. He has worked across occupational rehabilitation, case management, workplace rehabilitation and mental health.
He delivers a day program and an inpatient program at Pine Rivers Private Hospital, and collaborates with the University of the Sunshine Coast on exercise and wellbeing research.
Complex, contested and psychologically complex files are handled by Zak personally rather than passed down.
Where our clinical approach comes from
Pine Rivers Private Hospital
Our director delivers a day program and an inpatient program in a hospital mental health setting. The same principles inform how we treat psychological injury in the community.
ESSA accreditation
All clinicians are Accredited Exercise Physiologists with Exercise & Sports Science Australia, and practice to the current professional standards including trauma-informed care.
Our clinicians
Every client is allocated a named exercise physiologist who stays with them for the whole program. Their direct mobile number is on every report we send.
Zak Kharoofa
Director and Senior Exercise Physiologist
Inner and central Brisbane. Complex, contested and psychologically complex files. Hospital mental health programming at Pine Rivers Private.
Jordan
Accredited Exercise Physiologist
South Brisbane, Jimboomba, Flagstone, Ipswich, the Gold Coast corridor and west to Toowoomba. WorkCover, CTP, DVA and NDIS caseload.
Michael
Accredited Exercise Physiologist
North Brisbane through to Caboolture. WorkCover, CTP and private caseload.
Jane K
Accredited Exercise Physiologist
Cairns and Far North Queensland. WorkCover, CTP and life insurance caseload.
Coverage. Greater Brisbane north to Caboolture and south to Jimboomba and Flagstone, plus Logan, Ipswich, the Gold Coast corridor, Toowoomba, and Cairns and Far North Queensland. Clinic, gym, workplace, home, and telehealth where clinically appropriate.
What we are, and what we are not
We are a treatment provider. We are not an occupational rehabilitation consultancy and we do not sit on the WorkCover rehabilitation services panel, which means rehabilitation consultants and occ rehab firms are people we work with rather than compete against.
How we work
- Mobile first. We go to the client. Gyms, workplaces, homes, hydrotherapy, hospitals and our own venues.
- Named clinician. The same person every session, with their direct contact details on every report.
- Communication as part of the treatment. If a referrer has to chase us for an update, we have already failed at part of the job.
Funding we work under
WorkCover Queensland, CTP and motor vehicle injury, Department of Veterans' Affairs, NDIS, Medicare chronic disease management, private and other insurers.
What you get when you refer
- Contact within one business day
- We call the referrer, not just the client.
- First appointment within five business days
- Across South East Queensland. Cairns and Far North Queensland by arrangement.
- Initial report within five business days of assessment
- Function and capacity, not attendance.
- Written updates every fortnight
- Without you having to ask for them.
- Case conference attendance on request
- In person, by phone or by video.
- Direct access to the treating clinician
- You get their mobile. Not a reception queue.
Have a client who needs exercise physiology?
Send the referral, or call and talk it through first. Both work.