Early Intervention Services

Ergo-ology develops, employs, manages and maintains strategic early intervention services and programs designed specifically for your company. We provide your employees with functional, preventative medical support informed by high-quality clinical research and industry-specific best practices.

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ONSITE ERGONOMIC COORDINATORS

Ergonomic Coordinators are healthcare professionals with an extensive background in sports medicine, injury prevention, kinesiology, and health & wellness. They help employers achieve positive safety results by developing warm-up programs, providing individualized employee support, coaching of body mechanics, safe work practices, and injury prevention and well-being education.

Key Benefits:

Proactively address early warning signs of injuries through one-on-one care.
On-site injury triage through “first-aid” techniques such as massage, kinesiotaping, and job coaching.
Improve employee movement efficiency, balance and coordination by implementing daily corrective exercises
Optimize injury recovery time with on-site rehabilitation and functional capacity evaluations

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WARM-UP PROGRAMS

Warm-Up programs are customized based on task specific demands observed at your facility. Our routines are geared to improve the body’s ability to handle task specific moves; all while building a team based atmosphere and employee engagement.

Key Benefits:

Prep the body for daily work demands
Target specific body parts that are utilized for work
Team building and engagement program

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TASK SPECIFIC COACHING

Most employees find ways to accomplish the job but not always the safest way. By examining the requirements of the job, our team can develop awareness information to alter the mindset and behavior of how employees conduct work. Our team provides both group and one-on-one training on “HOW TO” leverage the body when interacting with products and equipment. For example, manipulating a loaded handcart.

Key Benefits:

Onsite coaching on how to engage with products and equipment
Physical demonstrations of proper movement / handling techniques
Explanation of the why and need to alter current behaviors

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WORK HARDENING PROGRAMS

The purpose of a work hardening program is to build the physical capability (fitness) of the employee gradually so that, the demands of work do not result in overexertion. This requires identification of light duty tasks and determination of work volume levels per body part for each essential job task. As the physical ability of the person increases, the work volume should also increase until the employee can safety handle all of the physical job requirements.

Key Benefits:

Prepare new-hires and prior injured employees for physical working conditions
Gradually increase the physical work volume so that, employees are not overexerted at once by all physical job requirements

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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION RECOMMENDATIONS

Under the ADA, employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities, unless doing so would pose an undue hardship. Our team will assess the work environment and provide recommendations to improve the usability and capability of any disabled employee and their environment.

Key Benefits:

Assurance that disabled employees have the right tools, equipment and workstations to effectively conduct the essential functions of the job.