Essential Skills and Concepts for Rehab Professionals Working in Industrial Settings. Courtyard Marriott Raleigh Cary. December 6-7, 2025.

$350.00

Practicing in an industrial setting is a niche market that is underserved and not fully understood by rehab professionals. This course is a deep dive into the services that you can provide in these settings. The goal of this course it to provide the attendee with foundational knowledge that will allow them to immediately begin implementing these philosophies and strategies in any industrial setting. December 6-7, 2025. Twelve Credit Hours, approved by NCBPTE.

Practicing in an industrial setting is a niche market that is underserved and not fully understood by rehab professionals. This course is a deep dive into the services that you can provide in these settings. The goal of this course it to provide the attendee with foundational knowledge that will allow them to immediately begin implementing these philosophies and strategies in any industrial setting. December 6-7, 2025. Twelve Credit Hours, approved by NCBPTE.

7:30-8:00             Registration

8:00-8:15              Introduction, Course Goals

8:15-8:30             Results, Prevalence, Effects, and Costs of WMSDs.

8:30-9:00             Health Care Professionals and Their Rolls in the Industrial Setting.

                              Why PTs (rehab professionals) are Best Suited for Industry. 

                              Nuts and Bolts of the Setting

9:00-9:30             Mission Statement of Industrial PT

                              Goals of Industrial Specialist

                              Disability Model

9:30-9:50              Marketing Strategies

9:50-10:00           Break

10:00-10:15         Incident Rates

                              Lagging vs. Leading Indicators

10:15-10:45         Pre-employment Testing

10:45-11:50         Functional Job Description

11:50-1:00           Lunch

 

1:00-2:50             Physical Abilities Testing

                              Reasonable Accommodations

2:50-3:00               Break

3:00-4:50             Ergonomics

                              Material Handlers Skills Training

                              Finish Day 1

 

 

 

Day 2

8:00-9:50             Life Cycle of the Injured Worker

                              OSHA

                              RTW Continuum

                              Treatment Algorithm

                             

9:50-10:00           Break

10:00-11:50         Managing Acute WMSD’s

                              Work Conditioning

                              Functional Capacity Evaluations

11:50-12:00         Questions

            12:00         Course Evaluations

                              Depart