Functional Capacity Evaluation Report Review
When a functional capacity evaluation report is available but just does not seem to make sense or presents with information you have difficulty interpreting, I can help review and comment on it.
Work Disability Diagnosis Evaluation
Documenting the personal factors and medical diagnosis of a client does not necessarily indicate the functional implications of injuries or illness. If it was so, everybody with lower back pain would have the same symptoms and the same functional limitations. Obviously, this simplistic approach cannot be used. The Work Disability Diagnosis Evaluation allows the referring party to know which factors, in the complex puzzle of work disability, influence return-to-work the most and how.
Job Match Evaluation
Establishing the physical and organizational demands of work is necessary to compare it to the functional capacities of an individual. It is then possible to determine the congruence between both and establish the worker's capacities to perform the functions of the job.
Functional Job Demands Evaluation
Knowing what a job requires in terms of physical, cognitive demands as well as educational requirements can be the only missing piece of information in the complex puzzle of a litigation case. A description, analysis and a video DVD of the job performed by a worker is included in the report.
Injury causation analysis
Has the job really caused or aggravated the injury? Using sound epidemiological, biomechanical and physiological evidence, a reasoned opinion is offered. A description, analysis and a video DVD of the job performed by a worker are included in the report.
Vocational potential evaluation
Using state of the art computer software programs to process the data, I do not forget that strong clinical skills and sound judgement are necessary to establish transferrable skills as well as pre and post earning capacity.
Sonia Paquette, OTD, OTR/L, CPE, ABVE-D
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Downingtown, PA, 19335
866-861-8659
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