Treatment profiles

Treatment profiles are guides to the treatment and rehabilitation services ACC expects a practitioner to provide to a client for a particular injury. They describe current ‘good practice’ and what outcomes should be achieved.

About treatment profiles

Treatment profiles are not rigid prescriptions; they are intended to provide flexibility and choice in clinical judgement according to patients' individual circumstances. However, when treatments and their outcomes are outside the limits described in the profiles, you may need to get ACC approval for any further treatment.

Treatment profiles have been developed for 150 common injury types. A range of medical providers, including general practitioners, physiotherapists, sports physicians and medical specialists, have developed the profiles. ACC is able to provide a provider performance monitoring service benchmarked for each treatment profile.

Download treatment profiles

ACC579Treatment Profiles2001 (PDF2.5M)

ACC4593Nursing Treatment Profiles May2008 (PDF2.7M)

Physiotherapy Treatment Profiles2000 (PDF1.4M)

ACC1032Chiropractic Treatment Profiles2003 (PDF808K)

ACC2361Acupuncture Treatment Profiles May2006 (PDF1.2M)

Last updated: 20February2009