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Effective communication, whether speaking or listening, is an important part of successful return to work. Whether communicating with the worker, treater, claims manager, senior management or coworkers, our helpful articles will help build the skills required to improve outcomes.
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Lauren Finestone
Empathy is not just a buzzword in workers' compensation. It’s a powerful tool that can transform our interactions with and lead to better outcomes for injured workers.
Lauren Finestone
Updated guidelines provide more detailed guidance on how to assess, treat and manage the rehabilitation of emergency workers with PTSD.
Lauren Finestone
Having a positive attitude can help recovery and RTW.
Dr Mary Wyatt
Dr Mary Wyatt explores the effects of communication on work-related injuries. In Part 2 of this summary of her webinar, she uses the example of back pain to explore what messages we usually give patients, and how we can do better.
Dr Mary Wyatt
Dr Mary Wyatt explores the effects of communication on work-related injuries.
Lauren Finestone
A case study shows how ‘intermediaries’ — like work injury scheme stakeholders — can take the key messages from high-quality evidence and tailor them to improve outcomes in workplaces.
RTWMatters team
Ten reasons to share the key messages from It Pays To Care with everyone who works with workers’ compensation claimants.
Lauren Finestone
An important message for healthcare providers to give injured workers is that inactivity is more risky than moving.
Lauren Finestone
Anne’s story compares how positive and negative messages about the body have a huge impact on how they recover from back pain (or not).
Lauren Finestone
Five suggestions for how clinicians can shift the conversation from an ‘impairment’ to a ‘participatory-based’ approach to osteoarthritis.
Lauren Finestone
Clinicians and people with knee osteoarthritis can shift the conversation about osteoarthritis from an ‘impairment-based‘ conversation to a ‘participatory-based’ one.
Lauren Finestone
How we talk about health profoundly impacts how we think and act when managing our well-being.
Lauren Finestone
Four experts discuss the idea of ‘good work’ and how collaboration can achieve better outcomes for injured workers.
Lauren Finestone
A ‘recovering interventional spine physiatrist’ makes the case for spine clinicians paying more attention to what patients know and say about their low back pain.
