Functional Baseline Testing & Rehab (FBT)

Course Description
Functional Baseline Testing is a method by which Physical Therapists may address functional activities in workers' compensation patients. This online program will outline a procedure the therapist may provide as an alternative to Work Hardening.

Work Hardening is a treatment medium thought of by many insurance companies and physicians as offering questionable return to work results and a waste of time and money. Further, it is thought of by many therapists as increasingly fraught with reimbursement issues, expensive equipment, and wasted square footage.

As a remedy to this problem, the course recipient will learn how to perform Functional Baseline Testing and Functional Rehabilitation in a standard PT clinic environment with a minimum investment in testing equipment.

Objectives
  1. Learn protocols to administer evaluation of lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling tasks.
  2. Review the necessary elements of musculoskeletal screening.
  3. Learn the elements and application of various positional tolerance tests.
  4. Learn to administer pain/disability questionnaires and other select Performance Criteria.
  5. Learn and practice basic documentation skills for Functional Baseline Tests.
  6. Learn to establish functional goals in a treatment plan using the Job Matching approach.
  7. Learn how to progress treatment using functional activities.
  8. Learn how to bill for the service.
Pre- Requisite Skills
  • ROM Assessment
  • Strength Assessment
  • Postural Assessment
  • Neurological Assessment
  • Basic Functional Assessment
This seminar will be helpful to any of the following who meet the prerequisites above.
• OT's • COTA's
• PT's • PTA's

Requirements for Completion
  1. Review the 80 page online course
  2. Score 80% on the 20 question post test
Continuing Education Credit
With successful completion of this course the student will receive 2 hours of continuing education credit (in most states).

Developed by
Vic Zuccarello, OTR/L, CEAS II, ABDA
BIO-ERGONOMICS, Inc.

Cost
US $69.95 per participant

The time frame for completing the online course is 30 days for each participant.

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