Medical Management:
Rehabilitation Services provided in order to gather and share communication of medical information among the parties regarding the employee's treatment plan, surgeries, and work ability. Medical management refers to those services necessary to facilitate the employee's return to work.

Vocational Counseling and Guidance:
All QRCs at Hokeness Rehabilitation Consulting, LLC have earned Masters Degrees in Vocational Rehabilitation. We are highly skilled counselors and we continue to earn education credits to maintain our various certifications.

Job Seeking Skills Training:
Assisting clients with job search activities including the completion of applications, preparation of resumes, job interviewing, and techniques for finding job leads. A Job Seeking Skills Manual is provided along with guidance to assist our clients with application completion and interview techniques.

Job Development and Placement:
This service includes weekly contact with prospective employers to search for suitable gainful employment. This includes supporting the client's search for work and the preparation of the client to conduct an effective self-directed job search.

On-Site job analysis:
(OSJA) A scheduled visit by the QRC to a place of employment to observe and study a person performing work activities. The OSJA is performed in order to define and describe a job's essential functions and physical demands to the parties of the file including the employee's treating doctor, the claim representative and attorneys.

Performing Transferable Skills Analysis:
A skills analysis is performed to define jobs that people with work-related injuries may be able to perform considering their work history, physical functional capacities, and vocational testing results.

Administration of Vocational Testing:
We refer clients to Mankato Rehabilitation Center, Inc. and other agencies for the administration of aptitude and interest testing. We then review and interpret the results of the vocational tests with the injured worker. The measurement of vocational interests, aptitudes, and abilities is done by using standardized psychometric tests.

Labor Market Surveys:
Businesses are contacted directly to obtain information about current job openings, hiring trends, wage and salary information, and physical demands of occupations.

Evaluating and developing retraining plans:
According to the Rehabilitation Rules, retraining is to be given equal consideration to other rehabilitation services. Our counselors evaluate injured workers for retraining. We research retraining opportunities available to the injured worker.

Job Modifications:
Modifications may be needed in order for the employee or injured worker to perform their job within the limitations of work restrictions.

Facilitating functional capacities evaluations:
Our QRCs coordinate and facilitate FCEs, if it is prescribed by the treating physician. FCEs are administered under the supervision of a physical therapist to define physical capabilities for work. This includes measuring abilities for lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, standing, sitting, walking, etc.

Coordination of Return to Work with the Same Employer:
All initial rehabilitation efforts are made to return the injured worker to their usual and customary job or to a modified job with the date-of-injury employer.