Avoid Potentially Hazardous Workplace Situations with a Pre-Employment Physical

Employers should be very careful in fielding applicants for job openings in their company. It’s not only to ensure that the applicant is going to be healthy enough to work with you, it’s also to guarantee that they are going to be a perfect fit for the specific job they are applying for.

The repercussions of not requiring a pre-employment physical exam are varied and can be severe, but perhaps the most serious is that the new employee is not a physically a viable match for the job and subsequently experiences an injury. This in turn means that the employee has now become a liability to the company.
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Occupational Health Services: 5 Reasons Why Employees Suffer Back Pain

Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed workdays in the United States, second only to the flu. In fact, a study from the Integrated Benefits Institute claims that U.S. companies lose about $34,600 per 100 employees annually due to missed workdays. Even if someone suffering from back pain decides to report for work, there is a good chance that he or she will be less productive.

Employees will often experience acute back pain from time to time. There are occasions, however, when acute back pain becomes a chronic issue due to your employees repeatedly exposing themselves to the following common causes of lower back pain:

1. Stress

A high stress environment can cause back pain for certain individuals. This pain leads to employees experiencing additional stress from dealing with the pain, which in turn leads to further back pain.
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Occupational Medicine Clinic: Will Standing Desks Produce Healthier Employees?

Are you wondering why your employees feel lethargic and uncomfortable at work? They may be experiencing chronic back pain, which can also cause problems in the shoulders and neck. Studies have shown that prolonged sitting may result in imbalance in the body, which leads to discomfort and recurring pain. In such cases, you might want to consider standing desks to relieve some of the discomfort your employees feel while at work.

Why Use a Standing or Active Desk

You may think that a sit-stand desk is just a fad and an unnecessary expense. You may also think that if an employee exercises regularly, he or she wouldn’t have to worry about discomfort and pain caused by sitting for prolonged hours. However, key findings about the benefits of standing desks revealed that they have real benefits for those who use them.
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Should You Choose Emergency Room or U.S. HealthWorks Urgent Care?

If you had an employee who got injured while on the job, depending on their injury do you think you would know whether they would need an emergency room or U.S. HealthWorks urgent care clinic? It is crucial that you know the difference otherwise you could be paying a silly amount of money for a Band-Aid. If you want to avoid paying a lot of money for an unnecessary visit to the emergency room, here are some examples that call for an urgent care clinic:

• Sprains and strains
• Cuts and lacerations
• Minor broken bones
• Fever
• Light burns
• Minor eye injuries
• Profuse bleeding
• Seasonal allergies
• Moderate back problems
• Flu and cold
• Minor accidents and falls

All these situations above seem like they may be an emergency, but are actually better handled amongst urgent care professionals. U.S. HealthWorks for employers wants to make sure that employees are getting taken care of properly but also at a cost that makes sense.
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Occupational Therapy Companies Get Employees Back to Work Safely and Quickly

When someone gets injured at work, it’s common to think that they can continue to work if they are just “careful” – but the truth is, they really need time away from their job to recover. U.S. HealthWorks provides physical and occupational therapy so that once the employee is ready to come back to work, they can go through a transitional period in order to safely observe and correct their skills. This transitional period is not something that should be done alone which is why having an occupational therapy company like U.S. HealthWorks assist is crucial to getting your employee back to performing their job duties safely and in a timely manner.

An occupational therapist will…

Once an employee is back at work and ready to start picking up where they left off, an occupational therapist takes a few things into consideration when guiding the employing.
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5 Ways Worksite Clinics Helps Employees Return to Work Quicker

Managing a lot of employees can be a tedious job – especially when many get sick or hurt and have trouble returning to work in a timely matter. With the help of worksite clinics, these issues can simply go away. A worksite clinic would provide your employees health services dedicated to making sure they have the resources needed to keep them healthy and even help them recover from an injury quickly. A few ways an U.S. HealthWorks’ onsite clinic services help employees return to work quicker are through:

• They can manage workplace injuries
An onsite clinic is able to provide first aid and professional healthcare assistance for an injury on the job. This way if an employee gets hurt or falls ill, there will be an onsite nurse or other medical professional to examine the injury.
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Telemedicine Services Help Provide Immediate Medical Care from Afar

You may not think much about it but your ears are very crucial not only because it facilitates your sense of hearing, but also because it helps keep your balance. See, deep inside your ear are the vestibule and semicircular canals, which help keep you upright, while the cochlea is the part that works for your hearing.

For these two functions, it becomes important that you attend to your ear problems before they get any worse. It’s not just your inner ear that you must be careful of, however, as the other sections are just as relevant.

Middle Ear Care

The most commonly injured portion of your ear would be the middle portion. Children, especially, come to a certain stage when their curiosity leads them to insert or poke things into their ear. What can happen next ranges anywhere from a busted eardrum, a developing ear infection, or an internal wound to the ear.

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