Category: FCE
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Isokinetic Functional Capacity Evaluation Overview
A Isokinetic Functional Capacity Evaluation (a derivative of functional capacity evaluation) is an objective comprehensive physical test of isolated joint and/or combined functional performance. They are used commonly to determine ability for work, activities of daily living, or leisure activities. Functional capacity evaluation (FCE) was identified in America in the 1980s and was a response…
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Pre Employment
Physical assessments or pre employment checks are accepted as a prerequisite to employment in many industries, particularly for safety-sensitive job positions. Such assessments routinely include vision and hearing tests for employees (for example heavy goods vehicle drivers), drug and alcohol testing (for example in the airline industry for pilots), and hearing and spirometry tests required to…
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Vocational Injury Management
Vocational Assessment/Rehabilitation Isokinetics machines are routinely used in injury management world wide. They are accepted as reliable, reproducible and valid for the assessment and rehabilitation of injuries by the clinical and research communities. Each year literally thousands of peer reviewed pieces of research are produced on the uses of isokinetics machines in medicine. In the…
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FCE Reliability & Validity
Reliability & Validity of Isokinetic Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE): Objectivity. Objectivity refers to the indication that the test measurements are relatively unbiased by either the participant or the evaluator. Objectivity in testing can be increased when the testing procedures and practices for observation and scoring are clearly defined and documented. In isokinetic testing this is assured…