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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

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