Injuries at work or home are all too common. In most cases, they affect the musculoskeletal system, which contains the muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones, and nerves. If you have an injury, occupational physical therapy can be a key factor in helping you recover as quickly as possible, so you can return to work and your […]
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5 Benefits of Occupational Physical Therapy
Whether you’re recovering from a workplace injury or experiencing post-injury pain and discomfort interfering with your ability to work, you want rehabilitative care. Occupational physical therapy is a type of rehabilitative care that improves or prevents the worsening of your condition or quality of life due to injury, illness, or surgery and helps you perform […]
Your Legal Rights When You Get Injured at Work
No matter how carefully you work at your workplace and how safe and healthy your workplace is, accidents and injuries can still happen. Workplace injuries include everything from broken bones and occupational illnesses to aggravation of preexisting illnesses and psychological problems. The legal rights when you get injured at work are protected by workers’ compensation, […]
Workplace Safety: Are You at Risk?
Occupational accidents and work-related injuries claim lives every day. In the United States, there were 4,764 fatal and 2.7 million non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses recorded in 2020. Out of those, there were over 1 million non-fatal injuries that caused a worker to miss at least one day of work. Apart from physical injury, workplace […]
