Performing Workers Compensation Evaluations

We offer instruments to support fact-based decisions—which depend not only on evaluating structural problems but on assessing the many underlying factors that can affect the patient's recovery, such as psychological, emotional, social, neuropsychological, and cognitive issues.

These powerful tools can help accurately pinpoint the source of the patient's problem to improve diagnosis and care and are also useful for measuring outcomes. They provide clinicians and physicians with objective support for such applications as medical insurance examinations, Social Security disability reviews, workers' compensation examinations and personal injury lawsuits. With the use of these efficient instruments, practitioners can help workers lead more productive lives and return to the job more quickly—and can save companies long-term costs due to chronic absenteeism and lower productivity.

These tests can help:

• Identify psychological factors that are particularly relevant for workers compensation patients, such as perceived disability, pain fixation, satisfaction with the treating physician, and compensation focus
  
  
• Adhere to the increasing number of state workers compensation guidelines that recommend psychological assessment as part of WC evaluations
  
  
• Promote communication to help patients understand treatment options and overcome resistance to change
  
  
• Gather relevant information by using instruments normed on physical rehabilitation patients and pain patients
  
  
• Measure outcomes to assess the patient's progress
  
  
• Measure general cognitive ability using a non-verbal test that helps overcome language, cultural and educational bar
  
  
• Evaluate whether an individual is falsifying symptoms of memory impairment
  
  
• Provide an empirical measure of malingering
  
  
• Screen for neuropsychological symptoms

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