Guide to the evaluation of functional ability
Subtitle: how to request, interpret, and apply functional capacity evaluations
By: [edited] by Elizabeth Genovese and Jill S. Galper.
Contributors: Genovese, Elizabeth.; Galper, Jill S.; American Medical Association.
Publisher: American Medical Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781603590013
Subjects: Disability evaluation; Disability Evaluation
Description: "Assists in understanding the components used in functional assesment and their use in postoffer testing, work-injury management, and evaluation of patients with chronic pain"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approach to requesting a functional assessment; title: General principles in functional assessment; title: Baseline functional capacity evaluation components; title: Activities of daily living and psychometric questionnaires; title: Dynamic material handling testing; title: Use of computerized extremity and trunk tests in functional capacity evaluation; title: Static testing in functional capacity evaluation; title: Evaluating movement and positional tolerances; title: Evaluating aerobic capacity; title: Assessing patient effort; title: Upper extremity functional capacity evaluation; title: Use of functional testing as an injury prevention tool in post-job offer assessments : methodological and practical considerations; title: Job specific functional testing for injury management; title: Functional capacity evaluation for patients with chronic pain; title: Data analysis and the FCE report; title: Choosing an FCE evaluator; title: Clinician & insurer application of functional test results; title: Application of the functional capacity evaluation by vocational experts; title: Legal issues in functional capacity evaluations; title: The scientific status of functional capacity evaluation; title: Conclusions/agenda for the future.