Accidents & Work Injuries

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Work related injuries are defined as injury, illness, or condition you experience during your employment with a company, and is related to your job duties while at work. Most common injuries at the job may damage muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, joints like ankle, knee, shoulder, low back, neck, or feet and hands. Understanding the nature of the injury, pain level, body parts involved, and job duties or work environment (if applicable) is the key to a timely recovery.

Our occupational & physical therapists are well qualified to evaluate & treat all injuries you may have sustained in a motor vehicle accident or at your job site. During your appointment, our therapy specialists will listen to your medical history, test your strength, and range of motion, and perform special tests to get a full picture of your injuries and develop a treatment plan. Treatment often includes a combination of pain education, manual therapy, stretching, and a personalized strengthening home program to improve posture, endurance and restore movement.

Post-concussion and post whiplash management is growing area of occupational & physical therapy specialty of which your therapists will develop a treatment and rehab program to address the complications associated with this diagnosis. Often, patients benefit from our ergonomic and body mechanic training to reduce strain to injured areas of the body through the recovery process. Your occupational & physical therapist will tailor your plan of care based on your individual needs.

Our therapy specialists also offer safe return to functional evaluations like functional capacity assessment (FCA) to determine whether you are safe to return to work or not, which most employers accept.

We specialize in treating the following conditions:

•  Motor Vehicle Accidents (No Fault)
  • Whiplash Injuries
  • Head Injury/Concussion
  • Bone/Joint/Soft Tissue Injury

• Work Injuries (Workers Comp)
  • Electrocution
  • Entanglement
  • Exertion
  • Fall From Height
  • Repetitive Motion

• Computer Typing/Mouse Use With Improper Ergonomics
  • Slip & Fall
  • Struck By Or Against Objects
  • Violence