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this video is on louisiana workers compensation vocational rehabilitation voc rehab under the louisiana workers compensation act isn't so much as a job retraining usually what it is is a mechanism for the insurance company to return the injured worker back to work and reduce the amount of money that the employer insurance company and insurance company have to pay the employee on a weekly basis and the way this is done is by sending the injured worker to a first of all to see physically what they're capable of doing by sending them to a functional capacity evaluation and then having their doctor agree with what they can and cannot do physically then they have a what they call as a vocational rehabilitation specialist sit down and meet with the injured worker and go through the job history find out their interests perhaps give them some testing to find out what they are capable of doing by education and training then the vocal rehab counselor combines the two what they physically can do