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Rob Beaven, chiropractor, blogger and host of The back pain podcast, tells us how he explains...
Dr Mary Wyatt explores the effects of communication on work-related injuries.
A case study shows how ‘intermediaries’ — like work injury scheme stakeholders — can take the...
Dr Mary Wyatt explores the effects of messaging on managing work-related injuries. She uses 2...
Messages that empower people to self-manage their injuries contribute to better RTW and recovery...
Injured workers will benefit from the message that their thoughts and emotions can affect how...
Ten reasons to share the key messages from It Pays To Care with everyone who works with workers’...
An important message for healthcare providers to give injured workers is that inactivity is more...
Anne’s story compares how positive and negative messages about the body have a huge impact on...
What should employers do to make sure they're complying with both Work Health and Safety...
Five suggestions for how clinicians can shift the conversation from an ‘impairment’ to a...
Clinicians and people with knee osteoarthritis can shift the conversation about osteoarthritis...
How we talk about health profoundly impacts how we think and act when managing our well-being.
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...
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...
Three union advocates give us their insights into the factors that can help improve RTW outcomes...
In Part 1 we introduced IRRI — WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives. In this...
A ‘recovering interventional spine physiatrist’ makes the case for spine clinicians paying more...
What do we know about how workers access, understand and engage with information about workers...
The ‘Principles on the role of the GP in supporting worker participation’ provide guidance to...
General practitioners clearly play a critical role and we ask them to do a lot in a complex...
The 'It Pays to Care' report calls for change in our work injury schemes, but recognises that...
Patient / treater rapport, emotional validation and education backed by experiences that...
Doctors and allied health professionals aiming to avoid over-treatment can actually make things...
Friendly telephone contact from laypeople with no psychological training alleviates loneliness,...
Our in-house expert and seasoned Independent Medical Examiner, Dr Mary Wyatt, explains...
Six powerful phrases that are heard too often, or not often enough, in the field of RTW and...
New research on the influence of return to work coordinators and health care providers on return...
Motivating messages for RTW coordinators, supervisors and HR, based on research that describes...
Even when it succeeds, manipulation destroys trust and breeds resentment. How can we persuade...
Authority builds trust, a powerful persuasive tool. In our fifth article on persuasion and...
Being likeable also makes you persuasive. In our sixth article on persuasion, we explore the...
In this article on Donald Trump and the art of persuasion, we examine the way small commitments...
People want to be like other people, hence the persuasive heft of "social proof". In our third...
Actually, we don't believe you, Mr President! In the second in our series of articles on the...
President Donald Trump is one of the 21st century's great persuaders. This series looks at the...
Dispute resolution options in RTW and Industrial cases including a case study
3 key principles of communication you can start using immediately to speed up your RTW outcomes