Healing the whole worker — Why holistic care is the future of workers' comp
Traditional injury-focused approaches are proving inadequate for modern recovery needs, driving a shift toward holistic, inclusive care that addresses the whole worker.
Workers' compensation has long operated on industrial-age thinking: identify an injury, authorise treatment, pay benefits and return the worker to duty. This mechanical approach treats workers as collections of body parts rather than complex human beings whose recovery depends on far more than repairing damaged tissue. The limits of body-part medicine The traditional focus on injured body parts in isolation has proven too narrow to address inju...