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Practical evidence-based tips for dealing with pain-related anxiety, or helping someone else...
A guide about what drives our behaviour can help people living with long-term conditions and...
There's a new guide for primary care practitioners who work with people with low back pain.
ChatGPT. We’re betting you’ve heard about it lately. It’s been hard to miss, and seems here to...
Self-management of long-term pain conditions doesn’t just mean doing things to manage the...
Personal injury compensation schemes have been around for more than 75 years. Yet the question,...
Safework Australia has new guide helps supervisors in small and medium businesses tread the...
Safework Australia's new guide helps supervisors in small and medium businesses tread the tricky...
For some people with back pain or other musculoskeletal conditions, self-management may mean...
A legal expert talks about rights and responsibilities at work if someone has musculoskeletal...
A musculoskeletal physiotherapist talks about what pain is, ‘boom and bust behaviour’, activity...
Behaviour change techniques to overcome the challenges of trying to stick to a management plan.
We’ve been discussing the role of physiotherapy in self-management for decades – how much...
We’ve created a list of the best evidence-based websites and podcasts to help people with...
Self-management of long-term musculoskeletal conditions 101 — the basics.
Catherine Day, Director of Employer Supervision and Return to Work at SIRA, outlines SIRA's work...
Thousands of workers with long Covid are, and will continue to be, exploring return to work. Dr...
In this webinar, Jamie Macdonald discusses SIRA’s approach to implementing value, their key...
Four experts discuss the idea of ‘good work’ and how collaboration can achieve better outcomes...
When injured workers reflect on their workers' comp claims experience, it's how their claims...
The Commonwealth Ombudsman’s investigation into Comcare’s management of IMEs addresses reports...
Independent medical examinations are a healthcare issue that contributes to poorer outcomes for...
Independent medical examinations are one of many factors in our compensation system that can...
John McMahon, Director of Science at Navigator Group, discusses their Navigator Support Program...
What challenges do RTW Coordinators face? And what training and other needs do they have to do...
An innovative technology-supported model of rehabilitation takes remote therapy to another...
The new Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard aims to make sure patients with this common...
Telerehabilitation on pain and disability in patients with spine pain achieved more improvement...
In this Q&A session, Mary Wyatt interviews ReturnToWorkSA Employer Education Advisor, Houda...
In a study, one in 4 workers with long-duration workers compensation claims moved onto...
Senior management teams can be ‘psychosocial safety climate’ engineers.
Is the concept of ‘Above all, do no harm’ relevant to our workers compensation schemes?
Workers get the bad press, but other scheme participants behave in ways that are unethical. This...
Regulators can constructively influence our work injury scheme through encouragement, engagement...
A new approach to manage chronic musculoskeletal needs many scheme participants to commit to a...
Three union advocates give us their insights into the factors that can help improve RTW outcomes...
Tatjana Jokic talks us through the aims, implementation and outcomes of a successful pilot...
A Griffith University study seeks injured workers and personnel involved in determination of the...
Practical suggestions for how physiotherapists and other healthcare practitioners can provide...
In Part 1 we introduced IRRI — WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives. In this...