These medical professionals use our ergonomics programs to provide Work Injury Prevention Consulting Services for businesses in their region. Physical and Occupational Therapists are uniquely qualified to present ergonomics programs. Their training emphasizes musculo-skeletal movement, posture and related orthopedic problems, including ergonomics and human biomechanics.
Occupational therapists have much of the same training focused on the upper extremities.
Most ergonomics consultants in the U.S. are engineers who rely primarily on engineering approaches of workplace re-design. In Europe and Australia, however, ergonomics is managed largely by physical therapists. Ergonomic physical and occupational therapists go beyond a narrow focus on design engineering, to include additional strategies that improve work tolerance, decrease tissue damage, and increase repair of wear damage to working tissues. They have published several books and more than a dozen articles on related topics. Relying strictly on job re-design does not address other essential risk factors.