Work Injury Care

Work injuries fall broadly into two groups, and they need different handling. Acute injuries have a moment: a lift that went wrong, a slip, a load that shifted unexpectedly. Repetitive strain injuries have no such moment; they accumulate quietly over months of the same movement until the tissue finally protests.

Both are common across the range of work our Dearborn patients do. Warehouse and manufacturing roles produce lifting injuries and shoulder problems. Driving jobs produce lower back trouble from prolonged seated vibration. Desk work produces neck pain, upper back tension and wrist problems. The pattern of injury usually tells us a good deal about the job before you describe it.

Treatment follows the same principles as any musculoskeletal injury: settling acute pain and spasm first, then restoring movement through adjustments and myofascial release, then rebuilding capacity with therapeutic exercises. What differs is the emphasis on the demands you will be returning to, because a recovery that cannot survive your actual working day is not a recovery.

Work injury care therefore spends time on the job itself. We will ask how you lift, how often, what heights are involved, how your workstation is arranged, and what you can realistically change. Sometimes the fix is a technique correction; sometimes it is a chair, a monitor height, or a different way of staging a repetitive task. Without those changes, treating the injury alone simply resets a clock.

Where a claim is involved, we document findings and progress carefully from the first visit, and we can communicate with employers or case managers regarding restrictions and return-to-work timing. We aim to be realistic about capacity rather than optimistic in a way that leads to reinjury.

If you have been hurt at work, or you have a nagging problem you suspect your job is causing, contact our office to arrange an assessment.