| Previously, we described briefly the focus of the | | | | person/body part is taken to the medical |
| development and evolution Industrial Therapy and | | | | practitioner whose main focus is to minimize pain |
| Rehabilitation in order to support a concept called | | | | and helping the injured body part to heal, after |
| "Industrial Wellness," where therapists focuses on | | | | which the worker will return to work. Herein, the |
| educating, strengthening capabilities, talks and | | | | medical practitioner was the main principal, and in |
| workshops on ergonomics, attitudinal and | | | | most times, the ONLY active provider and healer |
| behavioral management as well as other | | | | treating the injured patient or worker throughout |
| approaches to enhance the worker ability, health | | | | the stages of healing (injury->acute |
| and productivity in his or her given workplaces. | | | | phate->rehabilitation->return to work). |
| Here we will share a little more on the | | | | Therapists, even if they were included, were |
| development. Here is the rough flow of how it | | | | simply part of a protocol of referral and were |
| evolved: | | | | helpers to the process. The main problem with |
| Medical Model -> Conditioning Orientation -> | | | | this model of approach was that even if the body |
| Functional Orientation -> Psychosocial Factoring | | | | part were healed, and pain diminished, that doesn't |
| -> Preventative Education -> Prevention | | | | translate to the worker being able to return to |
| Process -> Preventative Job Matching and | | | | work with particular ease. Consequently, workers |
| Placement -> Ergonomics -> Beyond Injury | | | | often returned to their previous jobs |
| Orientation -> Beyond Wellness Orientation | | | | deconditioned, unable to resume at the previous |
| (today) => Industrial Therapy and Rehabilitation | | | | quality or quantity, and often with the same |
| (ITR) | | | | unsafe work habits that may have caused the |
| Well, in the medical model, what is the main | | | | injury in the first place. Often, there is high rates |
| concept is usually injury FIRST, then the injured | | | | of re-injuries. |