Capitol Rehab of Winchester announces completion of Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) course by Physical Therapist, Garrett Sanders, PT, DPT
The Funcational Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is a tool used by workers compensation companies, lawyers, insurance companies and many others. It is used to evaluate a patient's abilities after an injury or accident. Garrett Sanders, PT, DPT at Capitol Rehab of Winchester, has successfully completed the FCE course offered by Occupro. We are now able to offer this service to our patients.
- Winchester, VA-WV (1888PressRelease) November 09, 2012 - Garrett Sanders, PT, DPT with Capitol Rehab of Winchester, a successful Physical Therapy and Chiropractic practice, is pleased to announce the completion of Occupro's Functional Capacity Evaluation Certification Course. Occupro's FCE Certification Course is the gold standard of FCE Courses.
The Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is a comprehensive battery of performance-based tests used to determine a patient's ability for work, activities of daily living, or leisure activities. The evaluation can also be job specific, and commonly used for Workman's Compensation cases.
The need for functional evaluation was identified in the 1980s by workers' compensation systems that required specific information about worker functional capacities and limitations to expedite the return to work process. Historically, return-to-work decisions were based upon diagnoses and prognoses of physicians, but did not include objective measurements of worker functional abilities and job match demands. Physical therapists, whose core competencies include functional evaluation, began to develop functional capacity tests for comparison to the physical demands of jobs and occupations.
Functional examination/evaluation, combined with diagnoses and prognoses by physical therapists, has emerged as a valid and effective tool to support safe return to work, activities of daily living or leisure activities after an injury or illness.
The evaluation guides the Physical Therapist in creating a treatment plan to help a patient recover from an injury and return to work. It will also help the Physical Therapist determine a patient's ideal working environment, thus insuring the patient does not have a re-occurrence. A company can have workers and worker's environments evaluated to determine any physical changes an employer can make to prevent injury or repetitive-motion injuries. A valuable tool to help decrease medical expenses a company incurs due to job-related accidents.
The Functional Capacity Evaluation today quantifies safe functional abilities, and is a pivotal resource for:
• Return-to-work and job-placement decisions
• Disability evaluation
• Determination of how non-work-related illness and injuries impact work performance
• Determination of functioning in non-occupational setting
• Intervention and treatment planning
• Case management and case closure
Capitol Rehab of Winchester is excited to be able to offer this service to our patients and the community as a whole.
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