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Lauren Finestone
Practical evidence-based tips for dealing with pain-related anxiety, or helping someone else deal with it.
Lauren Finestone
For some people with back pain or other musculoskeletal conditions, self-management may mean finding a different job. An occupational rehabilitation consultant sets out 6 steps to successfully navigate a change in a career path.
Lauren Finestone
A musculoskeletal physiotherapist talks about what pain is, ‘boom and bust behaviour’, activity pacing, making a flare-up plan and other useful self-management tips.
Dr Mary Wyatt
Self-management of long-term musculoskeletal conditions 101 — the basics.
Jamie Macdonald
In this webinar, Jamie Macdonald will talk through SIRA’s overall approach to implementing value, key achievements, and priorities for the next 12 months.
Lauren Finestone
Patients are encouraged to ‘self-manage’ their chronic pain conditions. But there are external and personal factors that will either help or hinder their ability to do this. And healthcare practitioners are one of the main external factors. So
Lauren Finestone
10 common and unhelpful myths about low back pain, and 10 facts that bust them.
RTWMatters team
A quick guide to understanding, accommodating and preventing migraines at work.
RTWMatters team
Practical advice for accommodating non-infectious workers with persistent Covid symptoms during RTW. Plus information about Covid-19 transmission and indoor ventilation.
Gabrielle Lis
Patient / treater rapport, emotional validation and education backed by experiences that demonstrate the truth of what has been learned bring long-term benefits to patients with back pain, according to spine expert Dr Donald Murphy. Do GPs have the skills
Gabrielle Lis
Doctors and allied health professionals aiming to avoid over-treatment can actually make things worse for patients with back pain by offering reassurance that fails to reassure, according to spine care specialist Dr Donald Murphy.
Professor Peter O'Sullivan
Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Professor Peter O'Sullivan from Curtin University, discusses why current approaches do not improve outcomes and examines what needs to change.
Gabrielle Lis
They call themselves the long-haulers – people who struggle with persistent symptoms months after “recovering” from Covid-19. How common is post-covid syndrome? What are the symptoms? How might it affect recovery and RTW?
Gabrielle Lis
A change to the definition of pain offered by a key international organisation could change treatment approaches - and improve outcomes - for people with chronic pain.