Pinehurst Surgical Physical and Occupational Therapy Center can offer acute treatment, work conditioning, and functional capacity exams (FCE).

Industrial Rehabilitation Includes:

Acute care therapy to initially decrease irritability of symptoms and begin gradual activities toward return to work.

Work conditioning to focus on improving abilities that are job specific in preparation for return to work.

Functional capacity evaluation (FCE) is an intense, short-term evaluation that focuses on determining job specific physical tolerance abilities related to speed, flexibility, endurance and muscle strength to determine the amount of physical effort and reliability.

Impairment rating assessments involve a specific standardized test to determine patient's percentage of impairment.  These are usually performed once the patient's medical condition has plateaued and has reached maximum medical improvement.

Benefits to the employee:

• Quality acute therapy
• Quicker return to work
• Decreased loss in income
• Decreased usage of your short term disability
• Testing to determine your physical abilities
• Techniques to manage and avoid recurrent symptoms

Benefits to the employer:

• Decreased employee use of short term disability
• Quicker return to work for employee
• Prompt written report with specific physical abilities and limitations
• Work conditioning