Symptoms after a workplace event
A fall, lifting event, twist, impact, or other incident may affect muscles, joints, soft tissue, or nerves. The evaluation considers what happened and how the symptoms affect function now.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Work-Related Injury Care in Central Florida
A work-related injury can affect movement, daily tasks, and job duties. Physmedi evaluates how the injury affects function. Florida workers’ compensation authorization and supporting records may be required before an appointment is offered.
- Function-focused evaluation
- Authorization may be required
- Secure request review
Request an AppointmentRefer a PatientSubmitting a request does not schedule or confirm an appointment. Our team reviews your information before offering appointment options.
Who may benefit from a work-related injury evaluation?
An evaluation may be appropriate after an authorized referral for a reported work-related injury. The evaluation can look at movement, pain or discomfort, strength, and the ability to complete daily or job tasks.
- Neck, back, shoulder, arm, hand, hip, knee, or other joint pain after a workplace event
- A muscle strain, joint sprain, or other soft-tissue injury
- Numbness, tingling, burning, or weakness that may involve a nerve
- Symptoms that began or worsened with repeated lifting, gripping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, or twisting
- Symptoms that occur during or after tasks involving sustained force, vibration, or awkward postures
- Difficulty standing, walking, lifting, carrying, reaching, gripping, or using tools
- A need to understand functional abilities and medically supported work limits
These examples do not establish that an injury is work-related or that a claim is covered. They also do not establish that Physmedi is the appropriate or authorized provider. The right next step depends on the authorization, records, symptoms, examination, and current care plan.
What is work-related injury care?
Work-related injury care evaluates an injury or condition reported as connected to a person’s job or work duties. Symptoms may begin after a sudden event, such as a fall or lifting injury. They may also be reported during or after repeated motion, force, vibration, or awkward or sustained postures.
Symptoms during repeated work demands
Symptoms may be reported during or after work involving repeated motion, force, vibration, or awkward or sustained postures. The evaluation may consider the work tasks, exposure pattern, recovery time, and other possible contributors.
Important limit: This webpage does not provide legal advice or determine whether an injury, claim, visit, treatment, payment, or benefit will be approved.
What Physmedi may evaluate
Depending on the authorized scope and the individual evaluation, work-related injury care may include:
- Review of the reported injury, symptoms, medical history, medications, and prior treatment
- Review of relevant records, imaging reports, test results, and current work-status documents
- A focused examination of movement, strength, sensation, joints, muscles, and nerves
- Discussion of essential job tasks and how symptoms affect those tasks
- Identification of functional abilities and medically supported restrictions, when clinically appropriate and authorized
- Recommendations for additional records, testing, rehabilitation, specialist input, or other care when medically appropriate and authorized
- Communication with authorized members of the care and workers’ compensation process, when required and permitted
An evaluation does not guarantee a medication, injection, procedure, test, work restriction, referral, or other treatment. Care and documentation must remain within the clinician’s findings, the authorized condition and scope, and applicable requirements.
What to expect
Before an appointment is offered
Our team reviews the secure request and determines what information is still needed. For a Florida workers’ compensation visit, we may need the claim number, date of injury, written authorization, and relevant records. We may also need the insurance carrier or self-insured employer, adjuster or case manager, and the condition or body area covered by the authorization. A self-insured employer provides workers’ compensation coverage directly and may use a claim administrator.
During the evaluation
Your clinician may ask how the injury happened, which tasks you perform at work, what symptoms you have, and how those symptoms affect daily and job activities. They may review prior care and perform a focused examination of movement, strength, joints, muscles, sensation, and nerves.
After the evaluation
Your clinician will explain what the evaluation shows and discuss medically reasonable next steps. Any treatment request, referral, work-status document, restriction, or follow-up must be based on the clinical findings and may require workers’ compensation authorization. No particular outcome or return-to-work date can be promised.
How to prepare
Please have the following information available, if it applies:
- The date and brief description of the reported workplace injury or exposure
- Your employer’s name and your job title or usual duties
- The workers’ compensation carrier or self-insured employer
- The claim number and adjuster or case manager contact information
- Written authorization or referral information
- Any document identifying the authorized condition or body area
- Recent medical notes, imaging reports, test results, and current work-status documents
- A current medication and allergy list
- Previous treatment and how you responded
- A description of the work and daily activities that are difficult now
Do not place medical details, claim information, or identifying information in a URL. Submit requested information only through the secure method our team provides.
Do not stop or change a medication unless the prescribing clinician has instructed you to do so.
A function-focused care team
A physiatrist is a physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). Physiatrists consider how an injury affects movement, independence, daily activity, and participation in work.
At Physmedi, the PM&R physician may review the worker’s functional abilities, the physical demands of the job, and medically appropriate recovery goals. When authorized and clinically appropriate, care may be coordinated with therapists, diagnostic services, or other specialists. The team may also communicate with the parties responsible for the approved workers’ compensation care.
The goal is a clear, individualized medical plan based on the examination and available information. The plan cannot guarantee approval, symptom resolution, a particular restriction, or a specific return-to-work timeline.
Locations, authorization, and referrals
Central Florida access
Physmedi has offices in Orlando, Clermont, and Kissimmee. Clinician and work-related injury care availability may vary by location. The appropriate office must be confirmed after the request and authorization are reviewed.
Florida workers’ compensation
Under Florida’s workers’ compensation system, non-emergency care generally must be provided by a clinician authorized by the employer or workers’ compensation carrier. A request to Physmedi does not establish authorization or coverage.
For medical offices: Please send the reason for referral and relevant authorized records. Helpful items may include the date and description of injury, authorized condition or body area, recent office notes, medication list, imaging or test reports, current work-status documentation, prior treatment history, and authorization or adjuster information. Use the secure referral pathway.
For official questions about Florida workers’ compensation rights, responsibilities, claims, or benefits, use the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation resources. Physmedi cannot provide legal advice.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need workers’ compensation authorization before requesting an appointment?
If the visit is intended to be covered through Florida workers’ compensation, non-emergency care generally must be provided by a clinician authorized by the employer or workers’ compensation carrier. Submit a secure request, and our team will identify which authorization and records are needed before appointment options can be offered.
What information should I have ready?
Have the date of injury, employer, claim number, and written authorization ready if they apply. We may also ask for the carrier or self-insured employer, adjuster or case manager, condition or body area covered, current work-status or restriction note, and relevant medical records. Our team may request additional information.
What will the clinician evaluate?
The clinician may review how the injury happened, your symptoms, prior care, current abilities, and the demands of your job. A focused examination may assess movement, strength, joints, muscles, sensation, and nerves. The exact evaluation depends on the authorized condition and your clinical needs.
Does submitting a request confirm an appointment?
No. Submitting the form begins a secure review. Our team reviews the information and authorization before offering appointment options.
Can Physmedi provide work-status or restriction documentation?
When Physmedi is the authorized provider and the evaluation supports it, the clinician may document medically supported functional abilities or work restrictions through the appropriate process. The exact documentation, recipient, and timing require clinical and operational confirmation and cannot be promised before evaluation.
Does Physmedi decide whether my workers’ compensation claim is approved?
This webpage and an appointment request do not decide whether a claim is covered, who pays, what benefits apply, or whether care is authorized. Physmedi provides medical evaluation and documentation within the clinician’s findings and the approved scope. Contact the appropriate Florida workers’ compensation resource for legal or benefit questions.
Request a work-related injury appointment
Tell us that you are requesting care for a reported work-related injury. Submit the request securely; do not place medical or claim details in the URL. Our team will review the information and tell you what is needed next.
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This information is educational and does not replace individualized medical advice. Do not use this page or the appointment-request form for urgent or emergency care. If you believe you may be experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
This page provides general medical and access information, not legal advice. It does not determine whether an injury is work-related. It also does not approve a claim, visit, treatment, payment, benefit, restriction, or return-to-work date.