Industrial Rehabilitation
The Industrial Rehabilitation services that Body Mechanix Physical Therapy offers includes comprehensive ergonomic evaluations and recommendations for workstations as well as work site evaluations. On-site services not only include ergonomic evaluations, but as well can offer companies seminars and presentations for individuals or groups of employees to instruct them in lifting techniques, conditioning stretching and exercises, or anything else that may benefit overall employee functional capabilities. On-site services can and may include work site organization and flow in order to maximize productivity and safety for individual employees to reduce the risk of injury.
Pre-Employment physical testing is also available at Body Mechanix Physical Therapy. We offer state-of-the-art facilities and objective testing capabilities to assist with determining an employee's capabilities of performing a specific job function. The testing capabilities that Body Mechanix Physical Therapy offers allows the therapy team to evaluate an individual's capabilities and to compare them to the 12,741 job titles listed in the U.S. Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupations Titles.
Since therapy, my wrist is nearly back to what it was before. I am happy with the rate of progress.
-J.P. (Calumet)
As part of the Industrial Rehabilitation program, we offer work conditioning programs that are customized to an individuals needs and functional capacity to perform work. We have the capabilities to perform fitness-for-duty examinations, and work capacity evaluations while adhering to the work definitions of the U.S. Department of Labor and ANSI, as well as the NIOSH Safe Lifting Guidelines.
Functional Capacity Evaluations are also performed as part of the Industrial Rehabilitation program at Body Mechanix. In short-term disability insurance and workers' compensation cases where a return to work is in question, we can accurately match the residual functional capacities of the worker to a specific job. We not only take into consideration the physical strength components of the job, but also the time-motion, postural, and mental residual functional considerations of work. The state-of-the-art facilities that Body Mechanix can offer allows them to produce the same results in just a few hours as compared to nearly 14 days of testing using traditional manual functional capacity evaluation methods.
State of the Art Functional Capacity Assessments
The Industrial Rehabilitation program at Body Mechanix Physical Therapy is proud to announce the purchase of the Ergos Sapphire Work Assessment System. This system provides the staff at Body Mechanix the ability to measure mobility and function of patients and employee/clients. Along with measurements made, the Sapphire System allows the therapists at Body Mechanix to use gross functional movements and therapeutic exercise to aid in the assistance of treatment and strength training for rehabilitation purposes.