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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, July 15, 2004 ::
Work Center looks at injuries from all angles By Repps Hudson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Work Center officials believe they have developed the science of occupational rehab to the point that they can weed out most injured workers who are trying to play the system by faking an injury or how bad it is.
Using functional capacity evaluations, officials put injured workers through a series of tests and movements that show range of motion of the back, shoulders, arms, legs, neck and other parts of the body. They use computers to measure those movements, and they record those range-of-motion figures in a database for evaluating progress during rehab.
Work Center officials have access to injured workers' medical records.
The intent is to make the evaluations of each worker as objective as possible and to prevent abuse of the workers' comp system.
Under Missouri law, the employer can choose the private rehab firm that will help an injured worker to recover as fully as possible.------------------------------------------- posted 6:18 AM :: reference link ::
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