Pre-Hire Functional ScreeningSponsored by: Several key practice benefits await clinicians who are trained in accurate and reliable testing protocols that prevent workplace injury. Pre-Hire Functional Screening, elaborates on these potential benefits and defines the concept of pre-hire screening, providing a better understanding of its benefits, and addressing compliance issues with regard to the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This podcast presents an opportunity to hear Deobrah Lechner, PT, MS, Founder and President of ErgoScience, highlight the advantages behind offering this service and how to avoid potential pitfalls in the development of Pre-Hire Functional Screens, such as strength testing that is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), comparing the applicant to normative data, and predicting future injury. Discover why employers would want to screen potential employees and learn about the development of pre-hire functional screening. Find out what resources, skills, and tools clinicians need to become more involved in this area of injury prevention. Listen to this podcast and learn the clinical and medicolegal issues that should be considered in a pre-hire screen and how a PT's expertise and knowledge of these issues can serve as a key resource. 
Deborah Lechner, PT, MS Deborah Lechner is Founder and President of ErgoScience Inc, Birmingham, Ala. She has more than 25 years of clinical experience as well as an extensive research background. From 1988 to 1993, Lechner developed and validated a state of the art functional capacity evaluation (FCE), the Physical Work Performance Evaluation (PWPE), as part of her research responsibilities as a research associate professor with the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). When the results of the research were found positive, ErgoScience® was formed to commercialize the service. Lechner brings to the FCE process a solid grounding in biomechanics and kinesiology from her experience with computerized gait analysis and instruction in kinesiology. Her graduate training at the Massachusetts General Institute also has had a powerful influence on her approach to FCE development as the program emphasized standardization, objectivity, reliability and validity in clinical measurement. More about Lechner can be found online.
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