Sports Medicine Athletic Trainers

The Winona Health Sports Medicine department provides outreach to area school athletic programs. Our athletic trainers work with coaches, staff and students in Winona and the surrounding communities on a daily and weekly basis. Currently, we provide these services to:

• Cochrane – Fountain City High School
• Cotter High School
• Lewiston – Altura High School
• Rushford-Peterson High School
• Wabasha – Kellogg High School
• Winona Senior High School
• Winona State University

Winona Health’s Occupational Health team provides ergonomic assessments in office and industrial settings to help prevent workplace injuries and assist workers in returning to work after an injury-related leave.

Functional capacity evaluations

A Functional capacity evaluation is a comprehensive, performance-based measure of a worker’s ability to meet job-specific or general physical requirements. It provides objective and reliable data on a worker’s capacity to safely complete work tasks. This type of assessment is usually completed following a workplace injury or as an indicator for short-or long-term compensation (like disability benefits or Social Security Administration [SSA] benefits). Evaluation can be completed in 3 to 4 hours.

Onsite injury evaluations

Onsite injury evaluations can be conducted during weekly, bi-weekly or monthly visits to your organization with set appointments for workers to discuss injuries or conditions that have been bothering them at work. We’ll provide injury management rehabilitation and stretching instructions to decrease the number of offsite medical visits for your workers and minimize expenses that are associated with injuries in the workplace.

Onsite ergonomic assessments

During onsite ergonomic assessments we observe workspaces to evaluate ergonomic risk factors that may contribute to increased overuse injuries. We can target specific “hot spots” where acute or overuse conditions are seen more frequently and provide suggestions for modifications.

For more information on Occupational Health Ergonomic Services, contact:
Eddie Miller, MS, ATC, LAT
Evaluator in Industrial Ergonomics
Trained Office Ergonomics Evaluator
edward.miller@winonahealth.org