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Australian study seeks work-focused CBT practitioners and clients. Can you help?

contributorLauren Finestone

A research project is exploring the gap between guidelines and practice in work-focused CBT and...

A story of hope for people living with persistent pain — Part 3: the clinician’s role in managing chronic back pain

contributorLauren Finestone

The final instalment of our summary of the podcast conversation between Dr Rangan Chatterjee and...

Walking back low back pain

contributorLauren Finestone

An article in The Conversation covers a study published in The Lancet that found that a program...

The case for empathy — not just a buzzword in workers’ comp

contributorLauren Finestone

Empathy is not just a buzzword in workers' compensation. It’s a powerful tool that can transform...

From health tourist to driver — recovery-oriented messages from Professor Peter O’Sullivan

contributorLauren Finestone

Professor Peter O’Sullivan discusses what he sees as the problems with our current models of...

‘How I explain common conditions to my patients’ — messages from a chiropractor

contributorLauren Finestone

Rob Beaven, chiropractor, blogger and host of The back pain podcast, tells us how he explains...

‘Pain Factory’ exposes chronic pain care — and The Conversation picks up the baton

contributorRTWMatters team

Two articles in The Conversation pick up on revelations in the recent Four Corners episode on...

Webinar recording: How WorkCover Queensland commenced their journey to implementing value based healthcare

contributorTanya Cambey

Tanya Cambey, Specialist Lead at WorkCover Queensland, talks us through WorkCover’s vision and...

Messages to help people with back pain get their lives back

contributorLauren Finestone

Anne’s story compares how positive and negative messages about the body have a huge impact on...

Holding the torch higher — the social realities of self-management

contributorLauren Finestone

Self-management is not just about individual efforts. It's shaped by social factors and the...

A new guide to help primary care practitioners treat people with low back pain

contributorLauren Finestone

There's a new guide for primary care practitioners who work with people with low back pain.

Return to work is everybody’s business — how everyone can be part of the solution

contributorLauren Finestone

Catherine Day, Director of Employer Supervision and Return to Work at SIRA, outlines SIRA's work...

Webinar recording — Implementing value-based healthcare in personal injury schemes

contributorJamie Macdonald

In this webinar, Jamie Macdonald discusses SIRA’s approach to implementing value, their key...

Recovery at home — the overARChing intent of an innovative rehab model

contributorLauren Finestone

An innovative technology-supported model of rehabilitation takes remote therapy to another...

New clinical care standard for low back pain — a story of hope

contributorLauren Finestone

The new Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard aims to make sure patients with this common...

Telerehabilitation for spine pain in the lockdown era — not the same, but better

contributorLauren Finestone

Telerehabilitation on pain and disability in patients with spine pain achieved more improvement...

Caring for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain — a paradigm shift to solve a 'super wicked problem'

contributorLauren Finestone

A new approach to manage chronic musculoskeletal needs many scheme participants to commit to a...

Work-focused health care: practical suggestions for how to do it

contributorLauren Finestone

Practical suggestions for how physiotherapists and other healthcare practitioners can provide...

Did you know? We have principles that help GPs in their role to support work participation

contributorLauren Finestone

The ‘Principles on the role of the GP in supporting worker participation’ provide guidance to...

‘An epidemic of useless and often harmful care’ — Part 1

contributorLauren Finestone

Our standard pathway of care in injury management leads to low value care and...

Webinar recording: Prevalence and patterns of health service use in compensated Australian workers with low back pain

contributorMichael Di Donato

In this webinar, Michael Di Donato reports on his recent research into imaging and opioid use in...

SIRA answers questions about value-based healthcare

contributorRTWMatters team

Petrina Casey of SIRA discusses the benefits and challenges of value-based healthcare (VBH) in...

Barriers to VBH

contributorGabrielle Lis

Value-based healthcare promises to improve outcomes and reduce waste in workers’ compensation....

Making the case for VBH

contributorGabrielle Lis

Seven potential benefits of value-based healthcare (VBH) in the context of workers’...

Introducing value-based healthcare

contributorGabrielle Lis

Efficient, evidence-based and directed by what matters to patients: what’s not to like about...

The terrible two: UNDER-use and OVER-care

contributorDr Mary Wyatt

Ever wondered why some musculoskeletal injuries don't resolve as quickly as they should?