Work-related injuries pose a tremendous cost to our communities, for both the employers and the employees. Cumulative Trauma or Musculo-skeletal Diseases (MSDs) can impair your ability to perform your job effectively, and can lead to aches and pains, and loss of quality of life both at work and at home.

Our comprehensive ergonomics and injury prevention program recognizes the importance of preventing injuries and MSDs through education and training, identification of job tasks that are likely to cause these injuries, and provision of recommendations to reduce or eliminate risks to the employees.

We have a certified Ergonomics Evaluation Specialist, who can assist with specific tasks or jobs that may be causing symptoms, and who can assist companies with comprehensive, company wide ergonomics programs.

In addition to our Prevention program, our staff are experienced in treating musculo-skeletal injuries when they occur. Once the acute phase is resolved, patients can transition to our work conditioning program, where they can progressively work up to their maximum potential, with simulation of their specific work tasks.

Office workstations are sometimes as problematic as industrial settings. Correction of sitting posture and work tasks in this setting can reduce MSDs and work-related discomfort significantly.	Nursing aids at Bay Regional Medical Center demonstrate using patient lifts to safely move patients from their bed up into a chair.
Simulation of work tasks to get patients back to work successfully