Work Hardening – Work Conditioning
Achieving Successful Outcomes with Challenging Populations
NEWLY REVAMPED, this course is for the therapist or clinical staff member who is responsible for injured workers receiving work hardening or work conditioning services. This NEW training will include a focus on rehabilitating a wide range of clients including the following:
- Chronic Pain
- The Aging Worker
- Cognitive Issues/Impairment
- Various Musculoskeletal injuries
As with all Matheson courses the workshop will include practical application and collaboration. Case studies will be used for the application of education and program development.
Learning Outcomes
- How to establish and grow a market for your program
- Designing and setting-up the physical space
- 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
- How to use the Feasibility Evaluation Checklist (FEC) to identify and resolve road blocks to success in rehabilitation and employment
- Identifying rehabilitation and return-to-work feasibility issues
- 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 $3,000
- Documenting progress and case closure through work specific rehabilitation
- How to deal with the difficult client including role-playing “The Walk and the Talk”
- Components of a comprehensive work hardening/work conditioning evaluation
- Writing the treatment plan based on a job description or analysis and functional capacity
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal professionals in the Allied Healthcare fields.
Educational Level
Entry Level – Specialty Course
Contact Hours
14 Hours
Louise Lynch, PT, CEES, CWCE