Occupational Medicine is Sports Medicine

Frankly all of us are athletes. This is the way a Physiatrist looks at all musculoskeletal injuries. Our goal is to help you rehabilitate your injury/diseases/problem to it's highest functional level. In our Occupational Medicine Department, all of our injured workers are given treatment, medicines, therapies and advice in a way to get them back to work.

Like athletes, it is necessary to progress in a rehab program in a step-wise fashion. This is the reason that an athlete crosstrains and substitutes other activites for their sport.

This is the rationale for a modified duty program for work-injured patients. No athlete jumps right in to their sport without a period of ''partial-half-speed'' exercise. When an injured worker can resume partial duty/limited duty it enhances their ability to return to full-duty sooner.

An injured worker usually experiences some reactive depression when they are removed from their work-place. They miss their ''family'' at work and feel ''different.'' So the sooner we can get you back to work the better for your muscles, and your brain.

For information on our Health Education classes in the Sacramento/Roseville area or to receive nutritional advice or other health education information, e-mail one of our Health Educators at: csa.health-education@kp.org.

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