Friday 30 October 2015

Work Hardening New Carrolton Restoring Functional and Work Capacities

Injured workers trying to achieve the acceptable degree of productivity to return to a former occupation or meet the qualifications for a new trade requires not only physical conditioning but also employment behavior therapy. Multidisciplinary programs to rehabilitate injured workers include actual work and occupational tasks focusing on stimulating regular organized work routines as the foundation of returning to work. Employment behavior therapy addresses, structured work hours, structured work duties, appropriate dress codes and proper conduct.

Injured workers need programs designed for restoring functionality and work capacity through a work simulation application that offers activities for improving their overall physical condition, including their strength, their endurance, and their coordination which is specific to work activists, as well as resources for coping with pain or any other symptoms still remaining from their original injury. Injured workers trying to return to their jobs often require rehabilitation programs that offer specialty services such as physical therapy, language and speech therapy and occupational therapy in addition to functional capacity elevations to analyze their ability to return to their position after completing the treatment program. Reproducing a work simulated environment with tasks that are designed to improve the injured workers tolerance helps the worker to achieve an acceptable degree of productivity to return to work.

Work Hardening New Carrolton is a highly structured individualized goal oriented treatment program that is designed to maximize the injured workers ability to return to their position by using simulated work as a rehabilitative treatment modality. This rehabilitative treatment is administered by physicians and occupational therapists in addition to psychologists and vocational councilors, dieticians and nurses who are involved with the program to reproduce an actual work experience.

Work hardening New Carrolton uses manual physical therapy for injured patients. They address all bodily injuries and pains such as back pain, neck pain and joint pains and they nature recovering patients by aiding with daily necessities such as bathing, grooming and feeding. Exercise and education about the injury are better than drugs or surgery to overcome injuries. In addition to therapy, functional capacity evaluation programs determine when and if an injured patient can return to work. They also work with the patients employers in an effort to provide possible job placement by assisting with work-site modifications and accommodations to provide the worker with special needs assistance such as wheelchair accessibility. The FCE program also determines if the injured worker is permanently disabled.