This course is designed for professionals who are looking to implement a respected and researched FCE testing protocol into their medical practice. Obtain or expand your understanding of performing a kinesiophysical FCE protocol and walk away with the knowledge to plan, administer, and perform evidence-based FCEs that exceed industry reliability and validity levels. Learning outcomes include:

• Recognize/identify the latest evidence-based research on a kinesiophysical FCE approach
• Explain and apply safe occasional, frequent, and/or constant abilities
• Demonstrate an ability to perform/document safe, reliable, and defensible FCEs
• Organize and extrapolate data to an eight-hour day
• Identify common consistency of effort and reliability of pain methods
• Implement high level FCE documentation that enhances your reports
• Participate in legal discussions that will back up your FCE results in a court of law
• Apply to become a Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator by obtaining a CFCE Certification

• Introduction to Functional Capacity Evaluations:

  • The OccuPro evaluation philosophy
  • Principles of functional capacity testing
  • Proper FCE documentation
  • Creating your FCE report or using FCE software
  • Marketing and growing your FCE program
  • Selecting FCE equipment and setting up your testing space
  • Overview of the many types of FCEs you can perform

• Functional Capacity Evaluation Performance:

  • Intake process
  • Job analysis, job descriptions, DOT, and other ways to gather the jobs physical demands
  • Consistency of effort/reliability of pain ratings
  • Sitting and standing
  • Musculoskeletal testing
  • Upper extremity testing/coordination
  • Non-material handling, occasional material handling, and frequent material handling
  • Job simulation
  • Full FCE case study and practicum

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

• Introductory
• No prerequisites required
• 15:1 student to instructor ratio

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

• Participation in the full three days of training
• Completion of a full FCE on day three of the course
• Completion of course quiz with a score of 80% or better in all course formats

Day One:

• Look into the foundation of performing FCEs and how the tests you are performing are legally defensible
• Learn how to market and grow your functional capacity evaluation program
• Find out what equipment you will need and how to set up your FCE testing space
• How to determine consistency of effort and reliability of pain

Day Two:

• Determine if the subjective pain is reliable using RPE, functional pain scale, McGill, Oswestry, Ransford and Waddell Signs
• Learn to perform goniometric and inclinometric joint evaluation for general FCE and AMA impairment rating FCEs
• How to perform fine motor and gross motor coordination taking into consideration evidence-based consistency of effort
• Learn to test kneeling, crawling, climbing, and dynamic/static balance

Day Three:

• Using a kinesiophysical approach learn to evaluate and determine your client's occasional/maximum/safe lifting abilities
• Evaluate, determine, and calculate maximal/safe frequent and continuous lifting abilities during various lifts
• Perform and present a full hands-on functional capacity evaluation for certification