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Industrial Based Occupational Health

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Industry Based Occupational Rehab


Industry Based Occupational Rehabilitation (IBOR) provides an opportunity to manage occupational and non-occupational injuries acutely and at the workplace.  The work environment becomes the employee’s rehabilitation environment. This model reinforces an employer’s commitment to a healthy workforce.


Service Features


  1. Full-Service Rehabilitation “Industry Based”

  2. Occupational Kinetics Transitional Return to Work Program

  3. (identify transitional jobs for early transition back to work)

  4. Early Therapeutic Intervention (evaluations, treatment based on therapeutic exercise, and motivation for quick transition back to functional activities)

  5. Short-term Disability Prevention & Long-term Disability Management (i.e. FCE’s & IME’s…)

  6. Effective Control, Direction and Tracking of Musculoskeletal Injuries

  7. Functionally Oriented Treatment with Emphasis on Safe and Early Return to Work

  8. Injury resolution and re-injury prevention through structured daily exercise routines


Benefits


  1. Decreases total claims cost

  2. Decreases lost work time through early intervention

  3. Reduces Total dollars in reserve for claims

  4. Enhances treatment compliance through convenient industry based services

  5. Early identification of illness behaviors (Risk Factors)

  6. Lowers hiring and training costs through reducing lost work days

  7. Decreases absenteeism and increases morale

  8. Decreases unnecessary utilization of additional medical and diagnostic services

  9. Reduces total days and duration of rehabilitation (Early Return to Work/Function)

  10. Reduces overall litigation of claim

  11. Promotes a healthy SafeWork place and increases productivity


Industry Based Rehabilitation Includes


  1. A Board Registered Licensed Physical Therapist, or Occupational Therapist

  2. Treatment room

  3. Therapeutic equipment

  4. Treatment continuity and integration with existing Medical team

  5. Administrative duties, patient registration,

  6. All patient billing functions

  7. Clinical Outcomes utilization reviews/reports

  8. A supporting network of Outpatient facilities within the community for the worker that requires advanced clinic based care prior to transitioning back to work.


Industry Based Rehabilitation Staffing


Occupational Kinetic’s Industry Based Rehabilitation facilities provide service hours according to demand of each facility.  Hours of operation are based on facility location, patient volume, and employee schedules.  Occupational Kinetics Industrial Rehabilitation Specialists are able to staff during peak working times. These hours are flexible and designed to meet the specific demands and encourage the success of each industry-based facility.


Our Industrial Rehabilitation Specialists staff the rehabilitation clinic as necessary to meet the needs of the employee and the employer’s Medical team. When not treating patients in the clinic clinicians are often times out on the plant floor assessing workers, analyzing risk factors, participating in case management meetings and promoting routine stretch and flex exercise programs. Each clinician is skilled in injury management and injury prevention from educational lectures to ergonomics assessments.