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Physical Therapy
Workers’ compensation physical therapy is a specialized form of rehabilitation therapy provided to individuals who have sustained work-related injuries or illnesses. It is designed to help injured workers regain strength, mobility, and function, enabling them to return to work safely and efficiently.
It includes a combination of manual treatments, exercises, stretching, work simulation tasks, and activities focused on improving the injured body part.
Work Conditioning
Work Conditioning is a step up from physical therapy with increased hours of treatment. Therefore, it is typically a 4-6 week course of 2-3 days per week. It involves many physical therapy components, but is focused on a whole body conditioning program to prepare for return to work.
Work Hardening
This is the most comprehensive program for return to work. It is an individualized program progressing up to 40 hours a week of return to work activities. Therefore, it involves work simulation, exercises, stretches, ergonomic education, symptom management education, and injury prevention. The goal of Work Hardening is to prepare the whole individual to return to their pre-injury job. It will instill confidence in the injured body part, and increase whole body strength and endurance. This program is tailored to meet the individual’s work requirements.
Functional Capacity Evaluation
Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is used to evaluate where an individual is in their rehabilitation process. An FCE can be job specific in that it tests the injured worker’s progress to their job demands. An FCE can also be a baseline, evaluating what the individual is able to perform. Either FCE type is helpful for determining the next course of action in the workers’ comp process.
