Work Hardening - Work Conditioning
Build long-lasting and rewarding relationships with referring physicians and case managers while discovering the secrets to organizing, staffing and equipping your return-to-work program.
This course is for the therapist or clinical staff member who has daily contact with injured workers receiving work hardening or work conditioning services. After a review of how to establish a program, this course focuses on the day-to-day clinical process of achieving extraordinary outcomes with even the most difficult client.
This year’s course includes case study-based practice using critical physical demand data obtained from interview, job description, job analysis and functional capacity evaluation sources to develop work circuits for a one, two, three to four week program progression.
Who should attend:
Professionals in the Allied Healthcare fields.
Workshop Topics and Objectives:
How to establish and grow a market for your program- Designing and setting-up the physical space
- How to progress a worker through exercise and work simulation
- Using circuits to build critical physical demands
- Organizing circuits for exercise and work simulation
- How to plan exercise programs to reflect ACSM guidelines
- Selecting work simulations based on the critical physical demands of the job
- How to use the Feasibility Evaluation Checklist (FEC) to identify and resolve road blocks to success in rehabilitation and employment
- Identifying rehabilitation and return-to-work feasibility issues
- Resolving feasibility issues in the difficult client
- Using activity control of symptoms to increase physical capacity
- Buying and using fourteen clean, effective work simulations for under $3,000
- Documenting progress and case closure through work specific rehabilitation
- How to deal with the difficult client including role-playing “The Walk and the Talk”
- Components of a comprehensive work hardening/work conditioning evaluation
- Writing the treatment plan based on a job description or analysis and functional capacity
Hours:
Registration is from 8-8:30 a.m.
Subsequent day begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. with a one-hour lunch-break at 12 noon and two 15 minute breaks around 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Cost:
15 contact hours, US $475
Payment must be received in full 10 days prior to the start of the course.
Cancellation Policy - In order to receive a refund, cancellations must be made at least 10 days prior to the first day of
the course. If your cancellation is made less than 10 days prior to the start of the course, you will receive credit toward
a future Matheson course.
| SKU# | Dates | Location | Instructor | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1289 | February 20-21, 2012 | Palace Station Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV | Barbara Harrington, OTR/L, CWCE |
$475.00 |
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