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Message: <blockquote data-quote="~MysTEr!0uS~" data-source="post: 12465744" data-attributes="member: 299596"><p>Function, Impairment, and Disability are words in which many physicians  have little interest. Most physicians are trained to deal with structure  and physiology and not function and disability. The purpose of this  article is to address some of the common questions that many physicians  have with the use of <a href="http://www.functional-capacity-evaluation.com/" target="_blank">functional capacity evaluation</a> and disability and also to provide a unifying model that can explain the  medical and societal variables in predicting disability. We will first  define the functional capacity evaluation (FCE) and explore the  different types available as well as their uses. We will review several  studies exploring the validity and reliability of the FCE on healthy and  chronic pain patients. We will examine the few studies that look into  whether an FCE is predictive of return to work and whether an FCE is  predictive of disability. In the second half of this article, we will  focus on the Assessment of Disability from the origins of the United  States Social Security Administration to a bold new concept, the World  Health Organization's International Classification of Function,  Disability and Health.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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