Spare Workers and Insurers Unnecessary Pain and Costs With Early Physical Therapy (Risk & Insurance)

Spare Workers and Insurers Unnecessary Pain and Costs With Early Physical Therapy

  Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 Source: Risk & Insurance

For workers’ comp, lower back pain is a common workers’ injury. It can occur among industrial workers who are lifting heavy workers and office workers who may not have the ergonomic resources they need.

A recent study from WCRI found that early physical therapy could help reduce the costs of these injuries.

In a recent webinar, “The Timing of Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain: Does It Matter in Workers’ Compensation?” WCRI went over their findings which revealed that initiation of physical therapy within the first two weeks post-injury is associated with lower medical utilization and costs and shorter duration of temporary disability.

Speakers for the webinar included Dongchun Wang, Economist at WCRI, Dr. Randy Lea, Senior Research Fellow at WCRI, an orthopedic surgeon, and a hospital chief medical officer in Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. Kathryn Mueller, Professor at the Colorado School of Public Health and School of Medicine, former Medical Director for Colorado’s Division of Workers’ Compensation.

Wang emphasized that the study is focused on physical therapy treatment as defined by “workers who had three or more visits for PT services and by PT services we mean broadly speaking, physical modalities, manual therapies, and therapeutic exercise.”

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