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Understand the use of FCEs in determining disability

Bridging the gap between impairment and disability, the AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability provides a practical approach to functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) in relation to assessing patients’ physical ability. With this book, readers will be able to:

• Know the differences between various functional tests to request the appropriate type
• Design, interpret and apply FCEs to process workers’ compensation and to rate disability
• Clearly discuss and document how to best use the data in FCEs to assess a patient’s ability to perform work-related and non-work-related activities of daily living, or ADLs
• Interpret and apply an FCE report and understand legal implications of FCEs

Chapter Headings

• Introduction to Functional Capacity Evaluation
• Approach to Requesting a Functional Evaluation
• General Testing Principles for Functional Capacity Evaluations
• Baseline Functional Capacity Evaluation Components
• Activities of Daily Living and Psychometric Questionnaires
• Dynamic Material Handling Testing
• Use of Computerized Extremity and Trunk Tests in Functional Capacity Evaluation
• Static Testing in Functional Capacity Evaluations
• Evaluating Movement and Positional Tolerance
• Evaluating Aerobic Capacity
• Assessing Evaluee Effort
• Upper Extremity Functional Testing
• Postoffer Functional Testing for Injury Prevention: Methodological and Practical Considerations
• Job-Specific Functional Testing for Injury Management
• Functional Capacity Evaluation for Patients with Chronic Pain
• Data Analysis and the Functional Capacity Evaluation Report
• Choosing a Functional Capacity Evaluation Evaluator
• Clinician and Insurer Application of Functional Test Results
• Application of the Functional Capacity Evaluation by Vocational Experts
• Legal Issues in Functional Capacity Evaluations
• The Scientific status of Functional Capacity Evaluation
• Conclusions and Agenda for the Future
• Functional Capacity Evaluation Model Descriptions