Return-to-Work Physicals
Functional Capacity Evaluations
Getting You Back to Health
About Functional Capacity Evaluations
FCEs help physicians, case managers, and other health care professionals make safe return-to-work and vocational recommendations. They tell you what you can safely do, and for how long. They also document any problems that may prevent you from returning to work or fully recovering. For your employer, they identify your safe working limits and give them information on how to modify your job after an injury or create new ergonomic solutions.
Components of a FCE
An FCE includes a comprehensive evaluation that documents your capabilities to safely perform your job and return to normal functions. A Concentra therapist will perform an evaluation and document your ability to work from a physical, medical, behavioral, and ergonomic perspective. Components of an FCE include:
- Neuro-musculoskeletal screening
- Assessment of functional mobility
- Measurement of postural tolerance
- Testing manual material handling abilities
- Testing non-material handling abilities
- Assessment of maximum load tolerances or repetitions
- Verification tests to confirm level of effort
Concentra FCEs help the physician, or other appropriate health care providers to advise your employer in making safe return-to-work recommendations.
Locations
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