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Not a Good Week?
By: Fayth Carrell, 03 May 2010, RTW coordinator
DESCRIPTION: Dispatch from the desk of a RTW Coordinator, tackling re-injury and a nasty case of badweekitis.

The call came through late Monday afternoon; bad beginning to a bad week. A back injury going ‘south’.   The worker in question had been on modified duties. His manager and I had put together some alternate duties, less repetitive with less manual handling. A break from his normal job to help his niggling back settle down. He’d had a few physio sessions (in-house) and they’d worked a treat. All signs were l...
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