Articles tagged under ‘Healthcare in work injuries’

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

Articles 1 - 12 of 12

• The hidden challenge of health literacy and its impact on injured workers

  What we say matters as much as what we do. For injured workers with limited health literacy, our words may matter even more.

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• 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