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Firefighters risk their lives for the community. With a few practical adjustments, the...
NSW Police has spent $1.75 billion on psychological injury claims in 5 years while failing to...
What happens when the queue becomes the intervention.
When biomedical assessment meets psychosocial reality
How the process of assessment — not just the number — shapes outcomes in workers'...
How repeated assessments delay recovery in workers' compensation
Stacey Williams & Sharn Meneilly
Navigator Group's Stacey Williams and Sharn Meneilly present evidence that early psychosocial...
This article examines the governance and monitoring failures that enable opioid-related harm in...
Prolonged opioid therapy in compensable settings is consistently associated with poorer...
A serious workplace injury fundamentally rerouted Jackie’s life journey. Jackie has evolved from...
Traditional injury-focused approaches are proving inadequate for modern recovery needs, driving...
Irish physiotherapist Kieran O'Sullivan shares practical tools to help patients identify their...
A person’s 20s are characterised by many ‘firsts’. Milestone experiences in these years...
This series is published in partnership with It Pays to Care, articles by Tanya Cambey and Dr...
Part 1 examined the evidence linking unnecessary imaging to prolonged disability. This article...
This article is the first of two on spinal imaging. Here we focus on the evidence that routine...
Associate Professor Genevieve Grant argues that the workers' compensation sector needs a more...
When the data revealed a troubling truth, the WorkCover Board Tasmania chose real change over...
Dr Alison Sim presents research on innovative early intervention strategies designed to improve...
This article launches a fortnightly series that will examine how healthcare delivery in workers'...
A novel whiplash treatment program that uses predictive analytics and psychological resilience...
Despite being designed to support recovery, low-value healthcare, overtreatment and perverse...
A digital health platform is bringing evidence-based persistent pain to people's homes, with...
Professor Michael Nicholas from the University of Sydney outlines the key components of an...
Small differences in approach during the early stages of injury can lead to vastly different...
RediMed's Redi Go program uses evidence-based practice that integrates psychosocial screening...
When a truck driver develops chronic back pain, the approach to managing his physical condition...
A free mental health coaching service is helping small business owners and sole traders tackle...
A free mental health coaching service is helping small business owners and sole traders tackle...
Professor Alex Collie, Director of the Healthy Working Lives Research Group at Monash...
A call centre worker's throat discomfort reveals how workplace barriers can compound to...
By bringing general practice principles to organisational health, Dr. Paula Conroy has a...
A journalist's experience with harassment illustrates how toxic work environments create...
A strong safety culture and an early intervention program are showing strong results at Lakeview...
Getting hurt on the job leads to worse mental health outcomes than if you were injured somewhere...
Dr. Mary Wyatt and Rhea Mercado share practical insights from the new It Pays to Care initiative...
IPAR Rehabilitation's approach using virtual reality technology and coaching is rethinking pain...
A case study of a worker's plantar fasciitis reveals how addressing the full spectrum of an...
People with chronic pain want to be in control of their recovery. A social enterprise is...