Exercise Rehabilitation Programs are a specialized outpatient service for injured workers at Carteret & Edison Comprehensive Medical Care, facilitating their return to work. These programs are designed to reduce lost work days, lower claims costs and prevent work-related injuries. Primary services include:

• physical therapy and massage therapy to improve flexibility, strength and conditioning
  while emphasizing education
  
• functional physical therapy, a structured exercise program emphasizing return to
  
• home/work related functional activities and chiropractic therapy as necessary
  
• work conditioning services that help prepare clients physically for the demands of specific
  jobs
  
• work hardening services that prepare clients for safe return to work through job-specific
  flexibility, strengthening and exercises; job simulations; and vocational rehabilitation
  guidance
  
• on site rehabilitation work conditioning and work hardening services provided at work
  site, if necessary
  

Program Services

Our goal at Carteret & Edison Comprehensive Medical Care is to help clients return to greater functioning or to work with the knowledge that they will be more self-sufficient in managing their bodies and in avoiding re-injury. Our philosophy emphasizes creative problem solving. Important features include:

• A multi-disciplinary team approach
  
• simulation of the job-specific work environment
  
• training in the proper use of specialized ergonomic or safety equipment
  
• pre-placement screenings for specific job tasks, customized to the needs of individual
  companies
  
• coordinated effort to return injured workers back to work
  
• communication with physicians, insurance carriers, rehabilitation providers and
  employers
  

Interdisciplinary Professional Team

Carteret & Edison Comprehensive Medical Care’s interdisciplinary team includes the following:

• physiatrist (rehab physician)
  
• industrial rehabilitation specialist
  
• physical therapist
  
• Doctor of chiropractic
  
• Licensed massage therapist
  
• Exercise therapy
  
• Orthopedic surgeon
  
• Neurologist
  

These professionals are committed to helping patients improve their function and to helping them continue their rehabilitation independently after discharge. Physician orders are required for the provision of all therapies and services which can be obtained either from our doctors or from an outside prescription.