| The pursuit of Industrial Therapy and Rehabilitation | | | | approaches to enhance wellness and prevent |
| (ITR), it refers to a repertoire of worker-related | | | | work-related injuries. This, in essence, is Industrial |
| and worker-oriented practices and approaches | | | | Therapy and Rehabilitation. |
| designed to keep workers healthy, safe and | | | | The evolutions began at the level of treatment |
| ultimately, productive. And if they are or were | | | | such as pain management as well as healing the |
| injured, ITR servces to restore them to | | | | injured body part to expand and extend to include |
| maximum work function as quickly and | | | | a wider and more holistic group of management |
| cost-effectively as possible. | | | | disciplines. Now, we pay more attention to more |
| Also known as "industrial medicine" or | | | | areas and aspects of the working life, focusing to |
| "ergonomics" in reference to physicians restoring | | | | hasten goals achievement, reduce costs and |
| function to injured body parts, as well as avoiding | | | | increase effectiveness. |
| injuries by observing certain bio-mechanical laws in | | | | What am I talking about? We're talking about |
| people's physical bodies. Today, we need to look | | | | embracing the concept called "Industrial Wellness." |
| beyond simply treating injuries at the worker level. | | | | Therapists role in worker wellness and health is |
| Therapists are looking at increasingly assessing, | | | | ever-expanding, with more and more workers |
| planning and intervening a variety of measures, | | | | being treated and rehabilitated to return to work |
| opting to focus on education, capability | | | | as soon as they can. We shall reveal more of the |
| strengthening, job matching, ergonomics, attitude | | | | evolution of Industrial Therapy and Rehabilitation |
| and behavioral change as well other related | | | | (ITR) in following articles. |