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Prevent 76% of musculoskeletal injuries with ErgoPlus solutions. Improve the lives of your workplace athletes.
Our position is that we should care for workplace athletes just as comprehensively and intensely as sports teams care for their competitive athletes. After all, the human performance of your workforce ultimately determines your company’s success or failure in the greatest competition of them all — the marketplace.
Workplace Athletes…
the World
Let’s help them do it better.
How can you provide the highest level of care for your workplace athletes, maximizing their potential and preventing the most common and costly injuries?
Workplace Athletic Trainers:
Injury Prevention Specialists
Athletic trainers are in a unique position to help workplace athletes care for their musculoskeletal health and overall well-being. Their multidisciplinary training empowers them to implement a full range of MSD control measures, expanding your organization’s capabilities across the musculoskeletal health disciplines.
Ergonomics
Similar to analyzing the mechanics of an athlete, such as the throwing motion of a pitcher, the knowledge a certified athletic trainer has in biomechanics are valuable skills used to analyze a workstation for potential ergonomic risk factors.
Job Analysis
The athletic trainer’s education in human factors and biomechanics makes the athletic trainer a valuable professional when identifying potential musculoskeletal disorder risk factors through a job analysis.
Wellness
The education and knowledge of a certified athletic trainer make him/her a valuable asset in a wellness program. Along with encouraging and developing healthy lifestyles, the certified athletic trainer can manage fitness, stress management, and smoking cessation programs.
Nutrition
The certified athletic trainer can provide valuable information on numerous issues related to nutrition, as it has been shown that obesity and insufficient vitamin levels are directly related to musculoskeletal disorders.
Physical Readiness
Using the principles of conditioning (warm-up, overload, consistency, specificity, progress, intensity, individuality, and safety) the athletic trainer is a qualified health care professional to develop physical readiness programs for individuals or entire departments.
Safety
The athletic trainer can serve as a valuable member in a safety department. The diverse skills of the certified athletic trainer provide a solid foundation for working with safety issues.
Injury Prevention
From their beginning, certified athletic trainers have always focused on injury prevention and patient education. By using the same principles applied to athletes, the certified athletic trainer can develop and manage effective injury prevention programs.
Case Management
Certified athletic trainers are a natural fit to provide case management services as the emphasis is on early detection and intervention in the management of work injuries.
Employee Advocate
Serving as an employee advocate may be one of the most important roles an athletic trainer can serve in the occupational setting. Employees trust the certified athletic trainer, and this can be beneficial as the ATC serves a liaison between the employee and management.
Physician Extender
In the role of physician extender the ATC can employ the skill, knowledge and abilities in managing these conditions earlier in the injury cycle. In the physician extender role, the barrier of “referring to therapy” is brought down to the benefit of all involved.
On-site Rehab
By treating workers like occupational athletes and using aggressive rehabilitation methods honed on athletes that has traditionally been a strong point of sports medicine, businesses can save money because workers will return to work faster.
Return to Work
The skills of a certified athletic trainer in returning athletes to play are precisely the same skills required to return employees to work.