Industrial Rehabilitation
Hand&Body Mechanix provides quality, comprehensive, cost effective, Occupational Health services from education, prevention, assessment, injury management, and return to work programs for Santa Clarita, San Fernando, and Antelope Valley Employers.
By forming partnerships with the business community and providing prompt individualized quality patient care, Hand&Body Mechanix is able to manage and decrease work related medical, disability and employer lost time costs.
Hand&Body Mechanix Services
- Prevention and Safety Programs
- Post Offer/Pre-employment screening
- Medical Management
- Rehabilitation
- Work Conditioning
- Work Hardening
- Case Management
Prevention
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Job site analysis
A therapist from the Industrial Rehabilitation team will go directly to your place of employment and observe the worker performing his/her job duties. This allows the therapist to identify any potential job hazards and offer suggestions to help the person perform his/her job more comfortably and easily. Work station modifications for improved ergonomics and safety will be recommended as needed. - Functional Job Description Development
- Work Station/Ergonomic evaluations
- Back Injury education and prevention
- Cumulative trauma/ repetitive motion education
- Supervisor training
- Fitness and conditioning programs/Wellness
Screening Services
- Post-Offer, Pre-placement Functional Capacity Screens
- This two-to three-hour evaluation is designed to help determine a person's ability to safely function his/her proposed work environment. Strength, flexibility and capacity to perform work tasks, such as lifting, carrying, typing, computer work, kneeling and squatting are assessed. In this way the client and industrial rehabilitation team can determine an individual's capacity (or lack thereof) to perform the job duties assigned.
Medical Management
- First report of injury/initial assessment
- Treatment plan aimed at assessment of modified duty to keep employee in the work environment or a fast and safe return to work.
- Work status assessment
Rehabilitation
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Early intervention
- Individual or group education
- On site education and reinforcement of prevention and proper hand and body mechanix
- Work stimulation and training
- Recommendations for job or tool modifications or any adaptive equipment
- Activity modification
- Functional Capacity evaluations and screening
- Job site analysis/Ergonomic evaluation
- Aerobic and strengthening programs
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Assistance with transitioning employee back to work (full duty; modified duty)
From the day of injury, return-to-work specialists focus on healing, symptom control and preparation for work re-entry. A case management system ensures close communication among payers, employees and employers.
Work conditioning Program
Our work conditioning program is designed to restore physical capacity and function and provides:- Both physical and Occupational Therapy
- Less comprehensive than work capacity evaluations or work hardening
- Two to four times per day
- Three to five days per week
- Typically six weeks in duration
Work Hardening Program
Our Work Hardening Program helps people to:- Develop physical tolerances for work
- Regain flexibility, mobility, strength and endurance
- Learn safe work techniques
- Assess tools or job modifications for safe return to work
- Explore career options
- Understand their injury and ways to self-manage pain
Case Management
- Client specific
- Prompt and accurate communication to the employer, claims adjuster, physician
- Coordinated care to prevent duplication of services and to facilitate early and successful return to work
- Excellent quality documentation
- Prevents delays in treatment
- Provides data for prevention and planning purposes for payers, employers and employees Close communication with employers to assist with designing programs to enable employee to continue to work and avoid lost time off.
- Job demands and employment status confirmed.
How is Hand&Body Mechanix different?
- Strong prevention and rehabilitation focus
- Comprehensive services
- Effective communication and case management, individualized case management from experienced therapists who care about the employer and the employee
- Experienced therapists who are able to design individualized programs from prevention to treatment intervention, which will be effective and efficient in preventing injuries and reducing work comp costs.