Articles tagged under ‘Healthcare in work injuries’

In partnership with it pays to care, articles by Tanya Cambey and Dr Mary Wyatt

Articles 1 - 11 of 11

• Feeling better, getting worse — How passive care extends disability

  How heat packs, ultrasound and hands-on care can extend disability rather than resolve it.

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• When 'abnormal' is normal — rethinking how we report spinal imaging

  Words matter. Context matters. How we report imaging findings can either contribute to harm or support recovery.

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• The treatment lottery — When postcode and pathways shape recovery

  Two workers. Same injury. Same employer. Same compensation scheme. Different recovery paths.

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• The waiting room — How administrative delay creates perpetual patients

  What happens when the queue becomes the intervention.

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• IMEs for return to work: are we answering the wrong questions?

  When biomedical assessment meets psychosocial reality

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• The assessment carousel — Part 2: Procedural justice and system impacts

  How the process of assessment — not just the number — shapes outcomes in workers' compensation.

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• The assessment carousel — Part 1: When proving replaces improving

  How repeated assessments delay recovery in workers' compensation

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• The hidden crisis — How inadequate opioid monitoring in compensable schemes fails our most vulnerable

  This article examines the governance and monitoring failures that enable opioid-related harm in Australian compensable schemes.

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• Pain medicines cause harm — Opioids in workers’ compensation

  Prolonged opioid therapy in compensable settings is consistently associated with poorer function, longer disability and higher risk — particularly at higher daily doses and longer durations.

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• When scans make things worse: the unintended harms of spinal imaging - Part 2: Language, cascades and compounding harm

  Part 1 examined the evidence linking unnecessary imaging to prolonged disability. This article explores how report language drives these outcomes and how imaging cascades intersect with medication pathways to compound harm.

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• Appendix: Evidence of harm from back pain imaging