Rehabilitation

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The industrial athlete

Industrial workers use their bodies to perform their jobs just as an athlete would, however an athlete may do his/her job for 3 hours during a game whereas an industrial worker uses their body for 8 hours every day. It is important to take care of the most important tool you have at your disposal, your body.

HealthWorks offers a wide range of services to meet the needs of employers and their workforce.

Focusing on more extended treatment, analysis and conditioning programs, our Rehabilitation staff is there to help workers through the process of regaining their ready-for-work health and fitness.
To have a better understanding of work environment, functional job requirements, how to treat work-related injuries and asses return to work status, the HealthWorks team will tour your workplace or plant free of charge.
Through our strategic relationship with Centra Health’s Lynchburg General Hospital Emergency Department, we are able to extend our closed loop of care to nights, weekends, and holidays. HealthWorks’ clients in need of treatment during off-hours will present a flagged HealthWorks Emergency Care Card for fast-tracking through the ED, with documentation and follow-up protocols flowing back through our clinic.

Ergonomic assessments

No matter what the job requirements might be, comfortable, happy workers are more likely to perform optimally and avoid sustaining work related injuries. Small changes in workstation set up, how tasks are performed, and breaks how are utilized impact long-term health.

Problem: Pain in the upper and lower extremities can often be attributed to repetitive motion injuries.

Solution: Ergonomic assessments and training programs identify and correct inefficiencies and educate on and introduce mitigation techniques to create a workplace that fits the employee, minimizing injury risk, facilitating health and well-being, and enhancing productivity and performance.

Ergonomic assessment in your workplace can:

Assist workers in adopting safe postures and body mechanics; significantly decreasing injury risk.
Maximize an individual’s comfort at work, increasing productivity.
Educate workers on the importance of taking appropriate postural breaks and using stretching techniques to manage or prevent discomfort.

Fit for Duty program

Our Fit for Duty Program is designed to prevent workplace injuries.

Our program begins ensuring new hires can physically perform tasks required for jobs in your company. We start with a detailed assessment of each job’s physical and mental requirements, which translates into customized testing overseen by our team of occupational health experts. This testing measures the physical demands of the job against an employee’s ability to perform those demands to ensure new hires have the capacity to perform the essential functions of their job safely.

We can help put the right person in the right job at the right time.

Benefits to employers

Benefits to employers assures new employees can perform essential functions of the job safely, reduces medical and time loss claims, re-injury and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rates. It also directs medical providers in designing work modifications or keeping employees at work and alerts employers to ergonomic concerns.

Return-to-work services

Return-to-work testing indicates specific job tasks that are safe to continue or that need to be modified for the employee. It directs medical providers in designing work conditioning programs to get employees back to normal work duties after a work-related injury, eliminating or reducing lost time from the employee being off the job.

Job function matching

Job Function Matching is the comparison of the functional demands of the job with the functional capabilities of the worker.

Work accomplished productively and a worker not at risk of musculoskeletal injury or injuring others due to their inability to perform their work safely will result in reduced loss of valued workers and related financial cost, lost time, and disability.

Job Function Matching ™ in Return-to Work-Process

In the unlikely event that there is an injury, our goal is to get your worker back to work as safely and quickly as possible to avoid the physical deconditioning that can occur during lost time. Our Job Function Matching ™ tool indicates which tasks need to be eliminated or modified temporarily to make this possible.

We look at objective demands that were determined by the job description and compare them to the current injured workers status. This gives us information as to what level this worker can temporarily participate in his/her regular job. As healing or treatment progresses, ongoing matching can upgrade the worker until he/she is back at full duty while keeping the worker as close to his regular job at injury as safely possible.