• Quantify your client’s impairment?
• Improve the objectivity of your case?
• Obtain a timely response to your questions?

MED WORKS Assessments, working closely with its insurer, corporate and legal clientele, as well as FISCO, has established a unique and comprehensive approach to client evaluations which are court defensible.

MED WORKS Assessment, state of the art facility offers a full range of medical evaluations and medical diagnostic testing services. We will help objectify your case with the tests needed based on your client’s individual medical situation.

Our comprehensive approach allows us to accurately document and quantify a client’s impairment and resulting disability. This process will provide you with court defensible documents that, if necessary, can be defended by MED WORKS Assessments’ professionally qualified and experienced staff.

We take pride in our well earned reputation as an unbiased, independent provider of medical support services to the legal profession. Please call us to discuss your specific client needs or to review case histories of our legal experience.

MED WORKS Assessments has an extensive infrastructure and in-house team of qualified physicians and healthcare professionals are able to evaluate and develop Rehabilitative Plans for virtually any medical condition and provide a fair, impartial assessment based on the medical facts of each individual case.

Our team of on-staff specialists includes:

Medical:

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Independent Medical Evaluations (IME)

What is an Independent Medical Examination?
The purpose of the IME is to present a court-defensible document, produced by our team of qualified specialists, which outlines all medical findings. This document will address all specific referral questions regarding an individual’s impairment, rehabilitation and disability.

We earned our reputation by providing evaluations that are impartial and unbiased, based on the facts of each individual case.

With more than 10 years experience as a DAC centre, MED WORKS Assessments has the expertise in dealing with the most complex cases which often require the multi-disciplinary assessments of several qualified professionals to fully evaluate an injured client’s current situation and at the same time predict their employment potential.

PLEASE NOTE: A pre-cost analysis for these complex cases can be provided for a nominal administrative fee.

MED WORKS ASSESSMENTS in-house team of qualified physicians and healthcare professionals are able to evaluate and develop Rehabilitative Plans for virtually any medical condition. (Our team includes all on-staff specialists listed in the section above).

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Functional Abilities Evaluation (F.A.E.)

Our FAE process provides a court defensible, objective document outlining the client’s functional abilities. These evaluations are administered and interpreted by Certified Kinesiologists and Physician Specialists, utilizing a full battery of tests. Our comprehensive FAE process meets all industry accepted evaluations standards plus it also includes our unique, proprietary processes as well.

Validity of FAE is strengthened by:
• Maximum Voluntary Effort testing
• Consistency of Effort testing
• Externally valid domain job specific testing
• Comparative, standardized peer-reviewed normative data

FAE’s can be used for:

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Job Demands Analysis

What is a Job Demands Analysis?
A JDA identifies and provides a detailed description of the physical demands of the components of an individual worker’s job. These components are analyzed by qualified, experienced staff, independently using objective measures. The information is used to quantify the physical demands placed on the worker.

How are job components analyzed?
The job components are defined and described in quantitative terms following a worksite assessment by a qualified professional.

Why would you need a detailed Job Demands Analysis?
This document serves as the cornerstone for the rehabilitation process. A good Job Demands Analysis allows us to design an appropriate rehabilitation plan and physical conditioning programme based specifically on the physical stresses placed on the individual worker in a particular job.

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Work Site Assessment

A work site assessment identifies the essential physical, cognitive, and perceptual demands of an individual’s job. The work site assessment specifically relates the job demands and work situation to an employee’s known abilities and limitations.

This assessment is conducted by a qualified professional with both the employee and employer being present.

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Impairment Rating

What is an Impairment Rating?
Utilizing the latest accepted methodology and AMA standards, our qualified professionals test and analyze an injured client and produce a legally defensible document quantifying the client’s physical impairment as it relates to the specific body part as well as the whole person.

How is this rating determined?
• The American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, are used as the standard to quantify the client’s impairment
• Ratings are based on: Diagnosis Related Estimates (DRE) – Injury Model, and Range of Motion – Functional Models.
• Ratings can be determined using available data from referral source or by using ARCON objective data obtained at MED WORKS Assessments.

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