Functional capacity evaluation definition

Functional capacity evaluation. (FCE) means testing performed by a registered physical or occupational therapist or other qualified medical provider, in which the injured worker’s ability to participate in activities within a work setting is objectively determined. An FCE is used to match physical capabilities to job requirements and should address such activities as bending, lifting, pushing, pulling, balance, reaching, climbing, stooping, standing, sitting, eye-hand-foot coordination, manual finger dexterity and physical endurance. See Vermont Vocational Rehabilitation Rule 51.1200.

Functional capacity evaluation means an objective, directly observed, measurement of a claimant's ability to perform a variety of physical tasks combined with subjective analyses of abilities by the claimant and the evaluator. A physical tolerance screening and a Blankenship's functional evaluation are functional capacity evaluations.

Examples of Functional capacity evaluation in a sentence

• Functional capacity evaluation performance does not predict sustained return to work in claimants with chronic back pain.

• Functional capacity evaluation: An essential component of South African occupational therapy work practice services.

• Functional capacity evaluation: Rationale, procedure, utility of the kinesiophysical approach.

• Functional capacity evaluation (FCE) is a comprehensive or modified evaluation of the various aspects of function as they relate to the worker’s ability to return to work.

• Functional capacity evaluation: rational, procedure, utility of the kinesiophysical approach.

• Functional capacity evaluation is a comprehensive or modified evaluation of the various aspects of function as they relate to the worker’s ability to return to work.

• In these cases, we will provide your GP or the Occupational Health professional with an overview of your job role, reason and outline of your absence and ask their medical opinion of when you are likely to return to work, your fitness to resume to full duties and any reasonable adjustments the organisation can consider.

• Functional capacity evaluation: rationale, procedure, utility of the kinesiophysical appproach.

• Functional capacity evaluation of manual materials handlers: A review.

• Since the average number of services at issue per dispute is different for the two years, this would tend to make the percentage of disputes with any given service at issue different between the two years even if the relative preponderance of different services at issue were the same.2. Functional capacity evaluation (FCE) falls under the broad category of physical therapy services, but was coded separately because it is an evaluation rather than a treatment.