[Assessment of the working capacity in functional rehabilitation (author's transl)]

One of the most important factors in rehabilitation is the assessment of the handicapped's capacity to return to this previous work, or possibly to choose a new job (vocational rehabilitation) or to adapt the operation station. It is thus advisable to elaborate an assessment system of the working possibilities in order to better program individually the activities of functional rehabilitation, or retraining to effort, or of retraining to work. The assessment of the working capacity must take account of 3 principles: to observe--to assess--to guide, and this throughout rehabilitation, considering it must be precocious, progressive and continuous. The objective is to allow the handicapped person to determine his project of social and vocational rehabilitation. Therefore the program will be established according to pathology, characteristics of the profession and principles of the work. The statement will be basically turned to the questionnaire analysing the vocational activity requirements (the contents, the why and its grounds) and so to consider the vocational activity with regard to the functional shortage either temporary or permanent.