The Workers Compensation Research Institute is hosting a webinar Jan. 15 to present findings from its recent study, "Psychosocial Factors and Functional Outcomes Following Physical Therapy."
WCRI analyzed data from 65,000 episodes each of knee and shoulder physical therapy from 2021 to 2024 to explore how risk factors such as poor recovery expectations, fear avoidance, poor coping, catastrophizing and perceived injustice affect recovery in injured workers undergoing physical therapy.
The study found that psychosocial risk factors are common among injured workers with knee and shoul...
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