Industrial Health

The Westlake Industrial Health program offers an integrated approach to workers' compensation and occupational medicine that focuses on minimizing illness and injury and improving employee health, safety and productivity. The program is designed to help reduce medical costs, lost work days and employer risk.

A highly trained, responsive staff

The licensed therapists of Westlake Industrial Health are highly trained professionals committed to serving the needs of both patients and corporate clients. Working closely with case managers and, as an interface to patient physicians, they provide complete patient assessments - generally within 48 hours or less.

Westlake Industrial Health Services

Our outpatient therapists will help injured employees return to work as soon as medically possible by offering:

• Pre-work/post job offer screening
• Functional capacity evaluations
• Functional job analysis (ADA-compliant)
• Work conditioning
• Work hardening
• Biomechanical education
• In-house and job site ergonomic analysis

Prevention Analysis

• Job analysis/Pre-work screening - A standardized functional job analysis enables the assessment of a job's critical physical demands and functions. In accordance with the American Disabilities Act (ADA), this analysis can be used as the basis to develop an applicant pre-screening process that ensures the right match between job demands and the applicant's physical abilities.
• Ergonomic assessment - We evaluate and recommend workplace ergonomic modifications to help returning workers increase their productivity while decreasing the risk of further injuries. We also use the functional job analysis as a basis for recommending possible job modifications in accordance with the ADA.

Injury Management

• Functional capacity evaluation - Westlake's licensed therapists are trained and certified to perform the Isernhagen Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE). By having a patient perform various activities that simulate on-the-job work, the FCE can test for maximum objective strength without risk of further injury. This enables the therapist to objectively assess a patient's current level of function. FCE data can be used to make return-to-work/activity decisions, disability determinations or to design a rehabilitation plan.
• Work conditioning - A work-related, intensive, goal-oriented treatment program specifically designed to restore an individual's systemic, neuromusculoskeletal and cardiopulmonary functions. The objective is to restore the client's general physical capacity and function so the client can return to a non-specified job.
• Work hardening - A highly structured, goal-oriented, individualized treatment program designed to return a person to a specific job. This program uses real or simulated work activities designed to restore physical, behavioral and vocational function. It addresses the issues of productivity, safety, physical tolerances and worker behaviors.

To schedule an appointment, call 708-938-7395.