A client in work conditioning is improving tolerance but is not yet at job demands. How should progress metrics inform placement timing?
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Short Explanation
Work conditioning is the gym for the job—you watch the numbers before you re-enter the arena. When tolerance nears what the job actually needs, that’s the green light to ramp the search. Guessing from the calendar alone is how reinjury and failed tryouts happen.
Full Explanation
Work conditioning and work hardening programs generate objective progress data on endurance, strength, and task tolerance that should guide when aggressive job search or return-to-work trials resume. Premature placement before essential demands are approached raises reinjury and failure risk; indefinite delay after adequate gains wastes momentum. Counselors coordinate with therapy providers to interpret metrics against job analysis requirements. Timing placement to functional readiness is a core Domain 7 linkage between hardening and employment.