Title: A Comprehensive Functional Capacity Evaluation Guide
Headings: A Comprehensive Functional Capacity Evaluation Guide
A Comprehensive Functional Capacity Evaluation Guide
What Is a Functional Capacity Evaluation?
Why Are Functional Capacity Evaluations Important in Workers’ Compensation Claimants’ cases?
Are FCEs Used in Other Cases?
What Happens During an FCE?
I Need a Functional Capacity Evaluation for My Workers’ Comp Claim — What Do I Do?
I Need a Provider for an FCE for a Workers’ Comp Case — Where Can I Turn?

Content: Car accident cases where someone has been injured
After any catastrophic injury where capacity needs to be evaluated
For developing a treatment plan before rehabilitation
To adjust the process and to evaluate how far a patient has progressed after rehabilitation
Any time a person’s physical or cognitive capacity needs to be evaluated for a specific reason, an FCE can be useful. Some employers even used modified functional capacity evaluations to determine physical capacity for high-risk jobs that have intensive physical demands. What Happens During an FCE? Before a functional capacity evaluation is ordered, a workers’ compensation claimant will usually be required to undergo an IME (independent medical examination) with a medical provider of the employer’s or insurance company’s choosing. If the IME finds a claimant can return to work, the FCE is usually ordered to offer a further evaluation and to get more information about the worker’s current abilities and condition. However, the worker or their attorney can also order a functional capacity evaluation at any time. The request fo