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14 hours
Cost:
$650

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ALL NEW

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

Workshop Hours

Course Approvals

AOTA CEU’s awarded based upon completion of the course in its entirety.

 

Matheson Education and Training Solutions is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to offer continuing education for Certified Athletic Trainers.

 

 

 

 

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Matheson Education and Training Solutions LLC
166 South River Road Suite 240
Bedford, NH 03110
Phone: 1-800-443-7690 (Toll Free)
603-358-6525 (Int’l)
Fax: 603-358-0116
Email: info@roymatheson.com
www.roymatheson.com

Louise Lynch, PT, CEES, CWCE

An instructor in industrial rehabilitation around the world, Louise has been guiding patient recovery in orthopedic/manual therapy and industrial rehabilitation and ergonomics for more than 20 years. She specializes in the evaluation and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders that limit people from working at their maximum potential.

She is a co-owner of Injury & Health Management Solutions Inc. (IHMS), located in Colchester, VT (near Burlington). IHMS provides on-site services at such companies as Burton Snowboards, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Bombardier Transportation, Ben & Jerry’s, State of Vermont Agency of Transportation, and Twincraft Soap. These services include onsite physical therapy, ergonomic evaluation, all levels of injury prevention and ergonomic training, direct problem solving of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), wellness, Post-Offer employment screenings, ADA job analysis, and computer ergonomics.

 

Syllabus:

Day 1:

Orientation
8:30-9 Introduction to the course

Philosophy
9:00-9:30

The Matheson Philosophy & Practice Heirachy

Designing and Setting Up The Physical Space

9:30-10:00  and 10:15-11:30

Break

10:00-10:15

Understanding and Working with Difficult Clients

11:30-12:00  and 1:00-2:00

Lunch

12:00-1:00

Evaluation and Documentation-“Setting up and Progressing the Program” 

  -What you should test

  -exercise and circuit development

2:00-3:00

Break

3:00-3:15

Feasibility Checklist (FEC) and Addressing Progression “Issues”

3:15-4:15

Case Study Introduction and Group Project (Homework)

4:15-5

Day 2

Program Planning of Case Study

   —Initial Evaluation

  –Exercise Circuits

  –Work Simulation Circuits

  –Education 

  — Activity Control of Symptom 

8:00-10 am

Break

10:00-10:15 am

Discussion and Practice of Plan/Role Playing Scenario’s 

   –Chronic Pain/CRPS

  –The Older Worker

  –Cognitively Impaired Worker

  –Potential Surgical Client

  –Symptom Magnifier

10:15-12:00

Re-Evaluations and Return to Work Strategies

   –Modified Duty

   -Job Coaching

  –Progressive Return to Work

1:00-3:00 pm

Break

3:00-3:15

Marketing Your Program

3:15-4:30

 

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