Work rehabilitation

Question 1

What is injury management?

Answer 1

Broad term covering treatment and rehabilitation.

Question 2

What is rehabilitation?

Answer 2

Effort to maximise an individual’s restoration to pre injury, physical, social, psychological, educational, vocational status

Question 3

What is occupational rehabilitation?

Answer 3

An effort to maintain at or return to work for those people who have sustained work-related injuries or illness.

Question 4

What is workplace rehabilitation?

Answer 4

• A managed process involving early intervention with appropriate, adequate and timely services based on assessed needs.
• Maintaining injured or ill employees in or returning them to, suitable employment