Jul 9, 2026 · 40 min · 14 segments
**The injury may happen in seconds. Recovery is shaped by every decision that follows.** After an accident, most people focus on the injury itself. But what often determines the outcome isn't the…
Justin DeSandreGuest
Darrell BurrowHost
Well, in your years as a physical therapist, uh, what did you see as the most common, uh, workplace injury?
Of course, anything spine related, truthfully, and it's, it's, if you ask most of our, our outpatient physical therapists, which was the role that I primarily held, that's what we saw a lot of.
Uh, spine probably comprised 80 of our patient volume- Uh, and whether that's repetitive use, whether that was singular acute injury, uh, there were multifaceted versions of it.
But if we were gonna boil it down to truly a singular area or body region, spine was almost exclusively it.
And, uh, what about treating those, uh, workers? Did that, uh, teach you that maybe most people and, and maybe even employers, uh, don't fully understand about the recovery process?
So I think the thing that is tough is that oftentimes the employer and the employee seem to be on opposite ends when it comes to return to work, and it's...
There's some very difficult conversations that have to be had during that timeframe.
And so during that, recognizing that neither party is getting what they want if they end up on opposite sides is not...
That's not gonna be an effective way for anybody to come to any sort of resolution or satisfaction of the situation.
And unfortunately, the physical therapist [laughs] or treating provider, whoever may be involved from the medical side, often end up being the mediator in that situation of-
Well, in your years as a physical therapist, uh, what did you see as the most common, uh, workplace injury?
Of course, anything spine related, truthfully, and it's, it's, if you ask most of our, our outpatient physical therapists, which was the role that I primarily held, that's what we saw a lot of.
Uh, spine probably comprised 80 of our patient volume- Uh, and whether that's repetitive use, whether that was singular acute injury, uh, there were multifaceted versions of it.
But if we were gonna boil it down to truly a singular area or body region, spine was almost exclusively it.
And, uh, what about treating those, uh, workers? Did that, uh, teach you that maybe most people and, and maybe even employers, uh, don't fully understand about the recovery process?
So I think the thing that is tough is that oftentimes the employer and the employee seem to be on opposite ends when it comes to return to work, and it's...
There's some very difficult conversations that have to be had during that timeframe.
And so during that, recognizing that neither party is getting what they want if they end up on opposite sides is not...
That's not gonna be an effective way for anybody to come to any sort of resolution or satisfaction of the situation.
And unfortunately, the physical therapist [laughs] or treating provider, whoever may be involved from the medical side, often end up being the mediator in that situation of-
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