FCEs / Portable FCE

Functional Capacity Evaluations are an efficient process used to evaluate an employee's ability to return to work, at what capacity to return to work and with what limitations. The evaluations also can be used to correctly match a new employee's physical capacity with specific jobs, minimizing on-the-job work injuries, lost time, and expensive employee replacement.

These intensive evaluations can be performed at the workplace using Body Mechaniques' portable unit, thereby, keeping the employee at the job site and eliminating expensive travel time. Reports are completed within 24 to 48 hours and electronic transfer of the report is available over the Internet.

BMI uses a nationally-acclaimed evaluation system that is identified as the most efficient and effective program in determining a client's functional abilities. The evaluation focuses on major physical tolerances and abilities regarding:

• Musculoskeletal strength
• Endurance
• Speed/dexterity
• Flexibility/range of motion
• Functional ability
• Effort being given
• Symptom magnification

Using scientific evaluation, our therapists determine consistency of effort and symptom magnification, plus assess body mechanics and safe lifting ability. Functional Capacity Evaluations are appropriate when:

• An employee appears to be medically stable but remains on disability
• An employee's symptoms appear to have increased
• An employee's rehabilitation has reached a plateau
• An employee's ability to perform a specific job must be evaluated
• An employee has been assigned a new position with different physical requirements
  

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Functional Capacity Evaluation Referral Process

For your convenience, you may refer a client in one of the following ways:

1. Customers in North Carolina, telephone our One-Line Referral Center
   at (704) 596-6663 with your referral information.
   
   
2. Customers in Texas, telephone our One-Line Referral Center
   at (512) 451-1668 with your referral information.
   
   
3. If you prefer, click here to download a copy of the FCE Referral Form in portable document format (.pdf). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer Click Here to download it. Complete the referral information form and fax to (704) 597-5313 in North Carolina
   or (512) 459-8352 in Texas.