The WCS staff and clinicians have recently completed the 1st Quarter 2008 Patient Outcome Study. This study exhibits the performance and quality treatment provided by all of our health care professionals. The data set represents approximately 73 workers’ compensation subjects from all WCS locations who participated in the Advanced Physical Therapy Program and/or the Return to Work Program (Work Hardening/Work Conditioning).
Length of Treatment:
Average weeks in Advanced Physical Therapy:
Average weeks in the Return to Work Program (Work Hardening/Work Conditioning):
Physical Demand Level:
Average Physical Demand Level Change:
- 2.26 levels (for example, in 4.56 weeks of a Return to Work Program a typical patient increased their physical demand level from a Medium to a Heavy)
Recommendations following discharge from the Advanced Physical Therapy and/or the Return to Work Program:
- 66% of treated in work hardening patients met normal job demands within 4.56 weeks of treatment.
Education
WCS routinely holds Continuing Education Seminars for all types of audiences, including case managers, insurance companies, and employers. These seminars cover the latest Workers Compensation Issues and feature Physicians, Attorneys and Health Care Professionals who specialize in the management and treatment of individuals with Worker’s Compensation Claims. WCS can bring these seminars directly to your office or you can attend WCS’s quarterly seminars held in the Chicago Area. Listed below is a short list of these seminars. Please check the upcoming events page for more information on future CEU Courses. For more information please email cgaubatz@wcsrehab.com or call 708-671-0771.
1. Return to Work Program: An Athletic Based Model
a. How do you differentiate between a progressive return to work program and routine work conditioning? This course discusses the methodology of returning injured employees to work in the most efficient and cost effective manner.
2. Functional Capacity Evaluations
a. From Isernhagen to Matheson to Hart, their are several different FCE protocols. What do you look for in an FCE? How do you read an FCE? When is an FCE appropriate? This seminar examines several different FCE methodologies and research findings. Most importantly, this seminar discusses the cost effectiveness and return to work implications of various FCE’s.
3. Treatment of the Industrial’s Athletes: (Each region is considered one seminar)
a. Cervical Spine
b. Lumbar Spine
c. Shoulder
d. Hip
e. SI Joint
f. Knee
g. Ankle
h. This seminar reviews the anatomy, mechanisms of injury, methodology of treatment, progression, and return to work time lines for the aforementioned body regions. It also reviews appropriate treatment progression so the attendee understands the return to work time tables.