FCE + Return-to-Work + Work Conditioning
Certification Course

"If you are thinking about starting an industrial rehab program, this course is a great choice. Jim takes you through step-by-step on establishing your program and is there for you afterwards to help you with the challenges. I highly recommend this course."

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Live In Person Live Webcast (Virtual) On Demand
Hands-on experience
Interaction with other attendees
Questions answered in real-time
Receive CEUs/Contact Hours
Immediate access to all course materials
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Immediately able to start course
Complete course at your own pace

Learning Outcomes

This 3-in-1 Functional Capacity Evaluation + Return-to-Work + Work Hardening/Conditioning Course is designed for professionals who are looking to implement or enhance a workers' comp/return-to-work rehab program. Get trained in FCEs, Functional Progress Notes, Functional Discharge Summaries, and work hardening/work conditioning, while using our profitable approach. Learning outcomes include:

  • Define how to implement the most comprehensive return-to-work rehab program
  • Explain how to generate increased workers’ compensation rehab referrals, work conditioning referrals, and increased revenue
  • Produce evidence-based, valid, and reliable return-to-work testing
  • Differentiate between return-to-work testing, work hardening/conditioning, and FCEs
  • Produce an actual FCE and specialty workers’ compensation progress note
  • Show how to become a return-to-work specialty practice
  • Implement this innovative and profitable approach in any practice
  • Verbalize strategies taught to generate more revenue evaluating and treating workers’ comp patients
  • Illustrate how to implement our return-to-work rehab philosophy
  • List principles of return-to-work rehab and documentation
  • Apply to become a Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator by obtaining a CFCE Certification
  • Apply to become a Certified Industrial Rehab Specialist by obtaining a CIRS Certification

Additional Course Content

  • Functional Capacity Evaluation

    • Weigh various types of FCEs requested by referrals
    • Determine consistency of effort and reliability of pain results
    • Perform FCE musculoskeletal testing and impairment rating
    • Determine return-to-work ability during FCE performance
    • Evaluate non-material handling and upper extremity testing
    • Classify occasional, frequent, and constant material handling
    • Consider climbing, balance, sitting, and standing testing
  • Workers’ Compensation Progress Notes and Discharge Summaries

    • Apply our progress notes and turn your practice into a return-to-work specialty clinic
    • Apply skills learned through hands on implementation of these popular notes
  • Work Hardening/Conditioning Evaluation and Treatment

    • Double your referrals and learn the latest rehab techniques including evaluation, treatment planning, and daily patient progression

Who Should Attend

  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapist Assistants
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapist Assistants
  • Athletic Trainers
  • Exercise Physiologists
  • Chiropractors
  • Medical Doctors
  • Kinesiologists
  • Physicians
  • Allied Health Professionals

Education Level

  • Introductory
  • No pre-requisites required
  • 15:1 student to instructor ratio

Domain/Contact Hours/CEUs

  • Category 1: Domain of OT – Work
  • 21.5 hours (3 days)
  • 2.1 AOTA CEUs

Course Completion

  • Participation in the full three days of training
  • Performance and critique of a full functional capacity evaluation
  • Performance of a workers’ compensation progress note and discharge summary
  • Completion of course quiz with a score of 80% or better in all course formats

Course Schedule

Day One:

  • Learn, discuss, and conceptualize our innovative approach to treating the injured worker including how to significantly increase referrals
  • Outline and illustrate industrial rehab definitions/foundation and gain a general knowledge of this specialized field
  • Compose and practice proper industrial rehab documentation
  • Determine and calculate sitting/standing tolerance for eight hours and use this data to determine return-to-work recommendations
  • Choose various criteria for determining if your client put forth full effort during testing and if their pain reports can be consider reliable

Day Two:

  • Demonstrate and perform grip, pinch, fine motor, and gross motor coordination, evidence-based consistency of effort, and determining ability
  • Administer, evaluate, and implement various job simulation testing to increase your tests overall validity
  • Determine, perform, and calculate maximal/safe frequent lifting abilities as well as RPE vs. Heart Rate
  • Perform a full functional capacity evaluation

Day Three:

  • Introduction to Functional Progress Notes (FPN) and Functional Discharge Summary (FDS) and how they will increase your workers' compensation and work conditioning patients
  • Learn how to design treatment plans, progress your patients on a day-to-day basis, bill and increase patient volume/revenue
  • Learn how to set up a treatment plan, establish goals, and progress a patient based on a case study

Course Approval

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Approved for Physical Therapists

For your convenience, we have obtained physical therapy approval in many of the 50 states. Please contact us for a full and current list of courses approved in your state!

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Approved for Occupational Therapists

OccuPro is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID# 6012. This Live in Person, Live Webcast, and On Demand format is offered at 2.1 CEUs and is an introductory education level course in the OT Domain of Work. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

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Approved for Athletic Trainers

We are recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to offer training courses to certified athletic trainers. Every course we offer is approved for continuing education units (CEUs) as defined by the BOC for certified athletic trainers. Our BOC approved provider number is P3880.

Functional Capacity Evaluation +
Work Conditioning Software

OccuPro’s FCE and Work Conditioning Software will be used as a training tool in this popular training to show students how research is used to support rehab programs.

What People Say About Us

This course helped define key questions that employers, insurance companies, providers, and employees have during a return-to-work process.

Joshua Nielsen
Aspirus

Jim made watching the course On Demand very interesting and was able to maintain attention through interaction with everyone in the room. Keep doing exactly what you've been doing because I thought it was great!

Joshua Dahl, MS, ATC
Winona Health

The On Demand course was extremely informative and I'm so glad I took it this way because I clicked the back button about 100 times so I could take accurate notes. I am so pleased with the course, the content, and materials. This was great and I'm very thankful.

Amanda DiGiovanni, OTD, OTR/L, MLD/CDT, CAPS
SOHO

This was my first On Demand course and I liked it. I appreciated that Jim was mindful of the fact that he was on video. It is nice to be able to pause and repeat the information as needed.

Susan Hardesty, MS, OTR
Eskenazi Health

The course was great! I learned so much! It went by fast! Eric was full of energy. Thank you for the delicious lunch each day! :)

N/A

Eric was very organized! In my opinion, this format is the only way to learn the software.

Anthony Friese, PT
Aspirus

I normally struggle doing continuing education via On Demand formats. However, the information and presentation method with OccuPro was engaging and very helpful. Nice job, Jim!

Jeffrey Johnson, MA, ATC
BTE Technologies

The course couldn't have been better! Eric was very knowledgeable from his own experience and presented all info very well. He was very thorough, a great communicator, open to all questions, and did an excellent job overall.

Jill Bailey, PT, DPT
Makovicka PT

Jim was very professional and business like. He was able to reach out to the class and create class participation. Jim being down to earth really relaxed the class! 

Woodrew F. Hepler
Arkansas Dept. of Corrections

I enjoyed the ability to ask questions specific to my work situation and getting feedback on how to apply information learned in the course.

Rainene Miller, CMT
Dorn Companies

Eric was an excellent teacher. He went at a good pace, always stopped for questions to make sure everyone understood, and was very knowledgeable. I was not expecting as much breakdown/guidance on billing and how to self-generate new referrals.

Michael Brown, PT, DPT
Team Rehabilitation

I have practiced for 29 years and have taken a lot of courses. This On Demand course kept my interest and was not difficult to complete.

Donna Klardie
St. Luke's University Health Network

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