Introduction of the Matheson Blog Team
Posted on Tue, Jun 08, 2010 @ 11:49 AM
First things first: We want to give you our most sincere apologies for the fact that we have not posted in three weeks! I (Jenn) got married May 22 and was on my honeymoon for almost two weeks, but now we are getting back in the swing of things and will be posting blog articles more regularly. Our intention is to post an article every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, so we truly hope that you come visit us to check out what's new in our world and to get your bi-weekly fix of interesting and helpful industrial rehab articles.
Second: We want to give you a formal introduction to our blog team! Visit our "Matheson Blog Team" page for a list of team members and their biographies.
Over the next several blog posts we'll be introducing members individually and the first team member to be introduced today is Jonathan (Jon) Harrison, MBA, OTR/L, CWCE, CEES, CPAM, owner of Northwest Work Options. Jon received Matheson's Functional Capacity Evaluation Certification training originally in 2002 and again in 2008, and took Matheson's Ergonomic Evaluation Certification training in 2002 and again in 2009. He obtained certification from Matheson in both FCE and Ergonomic Evaluation and has also taken our Post-Offer Testing & Job Analysis and Work Hardening-Work Conditioning courses.
Jon has authored articles for publication on the subjects of work conditioning, work hardening, and returning the "older worker" to work. He has served as a resource to OT faculty lecturing nationally and serves as a resource to many of his peers across the country.
When Jon emailed us his bio (read the full version here) he also shared with us the following:
Thanks for allowing me to be a part of the Matheson Blog. I was doing a search on FCEs and came across this article: "Pain Response of Health Workers Following a Functional Capacity Evaluation and Implications for Clinical Interpretation." in the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (2008) 18:290-298. It was a great read and what they found was that the pain response in 99% of the subjects after an FCE was considered "normal". Pain and discomfort can be expected after an FCE. I always thought so, but now it is there in the research in black and white.
We hope you find his article helpful and interesting. I am not a clinician, but have gained an understanding of FCEs over the past 3 years working at Matheson, and I found the article to be very insightful!
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