Welcome to Pain Management Institute

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Treating Work Injury

The common mistake most people make is to overlook injuries and do not get the treatment as soon after getting injured. This sort of behavior, increase your chances to get many other health issues that disturbs your both professional and personal lives. In our society, there are two basic reasons behind the increased number of injuries, one is injuries inthe workplace. The most common injuries associated with these two reasons are shoulder injury, knee injury and back injury, and the most vulnerable part of your body to injury is your back. Whether you are driving or working at the workplace the most sensitive part of your body is your back and if it gets injured that take off your ability of walking, standing and sitting.

Causes of Work Injury

Some common causes for work injury are:

  • Lifting
  • Falling
  • Cutting
  • Repetitive motion

Which Workers Are More Vulnerable To Injury?

If you see overall, so everyone is vulnerable to physical injury, but workers working at the workplace are more vulnerable to injuries than others as they come across sometimes various sorts of hazardous situations while performing their duties. Following are the names of workers who have high chances of being injured at the workplace.

  • Nursing Assistants
  • Laborers
  • Heavy machinery Operators
  • Truck Drivers
  • Heavy object lifters
  • Workers working in a warehouse
  • Workers aged between 45 and 54

Many doctors say that in most workplace injury cases the culprit is overexertion and muscular, skeletal disorders account for approximately 33 percent of the cases. If you work in a physically demanding industry, then it means that you have a greater risk of getting a work related injury.

The Treatment Options For Work Injury

There are many non-invasive and nonsurgical treatment options for both sorts of injuries, and following are the most common ones.

  • Overall Medical Exam
  • Disability Evaluation
  • Functional Capacity Evaluation
  • Diagnostic Injections
  • Electromyogram (EMG)and/or Electromylogram
  • Epidural Steroid Injection
  • Medication Management
  • Neurostimulation Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Therapeutic Injections

 

Conclusion

After getting an injury, the first concern for, you will be to find the right place to get your injury treated well and in this regard “Pain Management Institute” is the right place to visit. It offers you all the treatment facilities under one roof and has doctors whose experiences are unbeatable, when it comes to treat patients of both sorts of injuries. So do not waste time and get the right treatment by calling on (815) 464-7212for an appointment. We have been helping work injury patients from Frankfort, Mokena, New Lenox , Orland park, Tinley park, Chicago heights, Olympia field , Kankakee, Bourbonnais, Monee, Manhattan , Joliet, Flossmoor, Homewood , Oak lawn, Calumet city, Burr Ridge and Hinsdale.