What is the Work & Industry Program?
The financial impact of lost productivity after a workplace injury often surpasses the cost of direct medical cost. Our primary goal is to help prevent injuries from happening on the job. If an injury does occur, our goal is then focused on helping the injured worker return to their productive and fulfilling work and personal life. We work to ensure that your organization’s workforce is safe and productive. All of our services are delivered with licensed clinicians and have been demonstrated to consistently reduce employer costs.
Our Programs Include:
- Physical Therapy – Physical Therapy for the Injured Worker focuses on return to work. Clinicians test lifting tolerance, static and dynamic postures regularly to accurately assess work readiness. The treatments are designed to actively engage the Injured Worker and simulate job-specific tasks. Communication with Employers occurs during the entire plan of care.
- Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCEs) – An FCE is a comprehensive series of functional tests that objectively measure a client’s safe physical abilities. We provide a valid, unbiased, defensible, and objective evaluation of an individual’s safe functional abilities and work tolerance. Restrictions can be suggested if requested.
- Work Conditioning – Work conditioning is a program designed to maximize work abilities by integrating education, aerobic exercise, stretching, strengthening, and functional task training to optimize safe return to work.
- Early symptom intervention – A program designed to alleviate the first signs of musculoskeletal discomfort to help maintain an organization’s workforce. This program is designed to address mild to moderate issues.
- Pre-shift stretching programs – At Therapy fit, we observe needs of a specific job taking note of posture, repetition, and movements. Our experts then tailor specific stretches and exercises for each job based on which muscle groups are used most often. This program involves setting up a short series of job-specific activities and stretches designed to address the problems that can occur with certain job tasks.
- Ready-for-work program – The Ready for Work program is set up to help employers get their new employees ready to do the job. This program is geared towards improving the new employee’s readiness to handle a full day’s work no matter their work history. The program is designed on the periodization principle for readying an employee to handle the workload. By determining the overall workload required, we design a program that gets the employee ready day by day by increasing their exertion levels as well as working on general strengthening, flexibility, and cardiovascular health. The program is customizable.
What Makes Our Work & Industry Services Stand Out:
We provide evidence-based hands-on care designed to facilitate a timely return to work. At Therapy Fit we offer quick and efficient scheduling within 24 to 48 hours. Our therapists focus on the injured workers’ functional goals with a rapid progression of care. Our assessments are thorough and we always include documentation of functional tolerances to ensure the injured workers’ safe return to work. We provide clear and concise communication to appropriate stakeholders which includes the identification of red flags and non-compliance along with written progress reports every sixth visit or 14 days (whichever is sooner).