One of the UK's leading physiotherapy solution providers has unveiled a new look and stunning new premises as it gears up for growth.

Physio Med, launched in Leeds in 2000, provides cost effective Occupational Physiotherapy and Ergonomic solutions to major national businesses including Royal Mail, Waitrose, Rolls Royce and the Department of Work & Pensions.

By making physiotherapy services, including its ground-breaking Physiotherapy Advice Line (PAL) service, available to employees, Physio Med helps businesses to reduce staff sickness absence levels and the associated costs, as well as boosting staff morale, performance and productivity.

Now the company - which has a current turnover in excess of £2million a year, employs 12 people and has a network of more than 2000 Chartered Physiotherapists across the UK - has revealed fresh branding as it moves into new headquarters.

Physio Med has invested £600k converting the former Wheatsheaf Inn on Gelderd Road in Leeds. Now to be known as Chartered House, the 5,000 sq ft building includes extensive modern office space, luxury treatment rooms and free patient parking.

Managing Director of Physio Med, Phil Clayton, said: "This is the start of a new era for Physio Med. We have established a robust business over the last 11 years and the time is now right to take it to the next level. Our new branding communicates the close relationship we have with our clients - being in touch with the way they work.

"We have spent a lot of time and money in creating our new HQ. The Wheatsheaf is easily accessible from the city centre and offers a great combination of office space and treatment rooms - which we want to make available to local businesses and individuals as well as our existing clients. This move will allow our continued growth without compromising on quality."

Former Bradford Bulls head physio Mark Fletcher is responsible for the clinical side of Physio Med and he believes that in the current climate businesses, large and small, cannot afford to neglect the health and wellbeing of their staff.

He said: "What we do is work with businesses to ensure individuals receive appropriate physiotherapy treatment to return them to fitness and work as quickly as possible but in a cost effective way. Through PAL - our telephone and web based physiotherapy advice service - employees can be put in touch with a qualified physio within as little as two hours of reporting their injury or problem to their employer and we can then establish whether the injury requires a face-to-face appointment or treated through the PAL service.

"It is a clinically robust system which resolves a minimum of 65% of injuries without the need for the more expensive 'hands on' treatment, thus making significant cost savings and returning staff to the job much more quickly. The health of employees is not something that employers can afford to ignore."