Title: Functional Capacity Evaluation
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Content: SELECTIVE REHAB address three critical components to formulate a determination of an individual’s current functional ability levels: 1) An assessment of clinical function, to include diagnostic-specific deficits such as range of motion (ROM), strength, neurological dysunction, and stability. 2) An assessment of functional ability, to include lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling, as well as positional tolerances such as walking, sitting, standing, bending, reaching, and hand function. 3) An assessment of functional work tolerances. These are the factors that identify the individual’s tolerance to perform functional tasks and job-specific activities. Features and Benefits of FCE: Most of FCEs are performed for Work Comp, personal injury or disability management cases –
to determine if an individual can do their job – safely
to determine an individual’s motivation – or lack therof
to provide objective documentation for physician’s restrictions or an individual’s progress
to give objective documentation of abilities for vocational rehabilitation or impairment / disability determinationl
In most cases America’s business bear the direct and indirect costs of worker’s compensation and disability management – and the price tag is going up. All FCEs performed at SELECTIVE REHAB are from Standardized functional testing protocols that follow the national FCE standard protocols and testing methods, which are legally defensible in courts. Employers can use the objective data provided from the SELECTIVE REHAB FCE to determine a return-to-work strategy, eliminating many of the direct and indirect costs. Benefits of FCEs: