Return to Work Programs - Work Hardening/Conditioning

Achieving Successful Outcomes and Return to Work with Work Conditioning/Hardening

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 processes of achieving extraordinary outcomes with even the most difficult client. 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. Forms and sample reports are included with the comprehensive 200-page manual.

Workshop Topics and Objectives

• How to establish and grow a market for your program
• Designing and setting-up the physical space
• Components of a comprehensive work hardening/work conditioning evaluation
• Writing the treatment plan based on a job description or analysis and Functional Capacity Evaluation
• 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
• Identifying rehabilitation and return-to-work feasibility issues
• How to use the Feasibility Evaluation Checklist (FEC) to identify road blocks to success in rehabilitation and employment
• How to use the FEC to resolve those roadblocks
• 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 $3000
• Documenting progress and case closure through work specific rehabilitation

The course instructor will use role playing to demonstrate how to use "The Walk and Talk" technique of resolving difficult issues with feasibility-challenged clients. This year's course includes case study-cased 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 or four week program progression.

INSTRUCTOR

Barbara Harrington, OTR/L, CWCE

HOURS

14 Contact Hours

TUITION

$475