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Benefits of a Functional Evaluation
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Benefits:
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- Objective Evidence Based Medicine
- Quantify Positive Patient Response
- Qualify Variances
- Legally Defensible Documentation for Litigation
- Third Party Objective Documentation for
Insurance Carriers
- Establish Medical Necessity for Treatment
- Track Patient Progress
- Increase Patient Retention
- Locate Functional Deficits
- Identify Nerve Injuries
- Identify Impairment Rating
- Aide in Identifying Disability Ratings
- Detailed Whole-body Pain Chart
- Whole Person Impairment
- Regional Impairment
- Quantify Muscle Weakness
- Quantify Loss of Range of Motion
- Quantify Rehabilitation Improvement
- Aide in Facilitation of Current Goal-Setting
- Aide in Treatment Design to Determine Proper
Path of Care
- Aide in the Development of a more Precise
Method of Diagnosing Patient’s
Injury and/or
Condition(s)
- Non-Invasive & Patient Friendly
- Facilitates Proper and Efficient Treatment
- To Support Objective Findings
- To Dispute Other Findings
- Potential Assistance in Identifying Possible
Malingering
- The Information Provided is Objective-
Describing the Patient at his/her
Highest Level of
Productivity Based on Physical Strength
and Endurance
- The Evaluation is Not Restricted By Self-Imposed Behaviors
- Based on True Physical Ability
- Documentation Made if Patient
does not Perform Evaluation With
Maximum Effort
- Aide in the Placement of Patient at the safest
Level of Work
- Understanding of what Activities are
Beyond his/her Physical Abilities, while
Permitting the Highest Level
of Function Possible
- Ability to Determine the Physical Capabilities of the Patient:
- Allows him/her to Return to Work
- Indicates Rehabilitation (Work Hardening)
- Job Site Modification
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