Industrial Rehabilitation
We offer a wide range of specialized programs designed to meet the needs of both recovering workers and their employers.
Early referral for immediate active post-injury care allows the recovering worker to be educated regarding the healing and recovery process, provides recovering workers with the appropriate expectations and encourages the desired amount of activity at the proper time during healing. This approach minimizes the frustration, fear, anxiety and depression that can occur following an injury.
Early care may consists of:
- Passive modalities (cold/heat therapy, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, massage, spinal traction, etc.) for the management of pain and inflammation.
- Therapeutic exercise to restore mobility.
- Manual therapy techniques for normal joint motion.
- Gradual more advanced exercise and functional training to restore normal movement patterns, strength, endurance and tolerance to daily activities and allow for a return to work.
We specialize in industrial rehabilitation at our clinics in Katy & Oakbend Medical Center
Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE)
FCEs consists of tests that include medical/injury history, musculoskeletal assessment and functional testing. Functional tests may include lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling (material handling), as well as tests for bending, reaching climbing, crawling, kneeling, squatting and balancing, (non-material handling). The results of an FCE allow the injured worker’s functional abilities to be classified using standardized terminology.
Physicians, vocational rehabilitation consultants, claims managers, nurse case managers and other rehabilitation professionals can use the results to assist the worker in safely returning to work
Work Conditioning
A program reserved for recovering workers who have progressed through the early course of physical therapy care and are ready for more intense training.
Work Conditioning consists of:
- Education and training in proper posture and body mechanics.
- Muscle/joint flexibility exercises.
- Strengthening exercises.
- Cardiovascular training.
- Material handling training.
- Non-material handling training.
Work Hardening
We offer a large, well-equipped facility to provide workers a safe and varied environment in which to recover.
This program is reserved for recovering workers who:
- Have completed a previous work conditioning program.
- Have a specific job to return to, or are in a formal rehabilitation plan with a vocational rehabilitation consultant.
- Not ready to return to work.
Work Hardening is a daily program that lasts a minimum of 4 hours daily, up to a maximum of 8 hours daily. Increased emphasis is placed on real or simulated work activities designed to restore physical, behavioral and vocational functions.