Return to work: Clinical judgements and evidence-based decisions

Followingon from yesterdays post - qualitative analysis of comments that rehabilitation providers made about factors they thought important and modifiable in helping an individual return to work.

For each factor that was analysed, the participants were asked ‘how and why is this factor important?’ Using ‘Leximancer’, a text analysis software, the relationships between various terms [...]

Return to work: Clinical judgements and evidence-based decisions

It’s not often that we find an article that draws on clinical knowledge rather than directly from experimental findings, but when we do, it can add something really helpful as in this article by Heidi Muenchberger, Elizabeth Kendall, Peter Grimbeek and Travis Gee.
Now I’m definitely a proponent of evidence-based management - but in very complex [...]

Return to work and chronic pain

Again this post is a bit of a reflective one, but also refers to the literature a wee bit too…
I’ve posted before about the importance of support in the workplace for people returning to work…and of the value of work to people living with chronic pain.
How about some of the wider issues that may [...]

On the nature of rehabilitation

This is a very personal post today. I’m almost at the end of a 14 month rehabilitation programme to recover from postconcussion syndrome. 26 February 2007 I hit my head on the edge of the door of our 4WD when I was getting in. I had pushed myself up on the door [...]

Work and men

I’m in the process of writing a paper exploring the differences between men and women with respect to adjusting to work disability.  Surprisingly (or not), there is little recent information on work disability differences between genders.  What few studies I found studied women and not men, which means there is a real lack of information [...]

Back to work with pain

At last, something dear to my heart hits the news!
I dropped into MedWorm and skimmed the headlines just a moment or two ago, and found this!!!
It was entitled ‘Hope for low back pain sufferers’ and initially my heart sank - not another ‘we can fix you’ article promising much relief from pain but possibly not [...]

Pacing

Take a look at this ‘oldie but goodie’ in the Coping Skills section of my blog.  Pacing is an often mis-used strategy for coping with pain. Don’t just assume you and your client/patient are talking the same language! Pacing is a part of rehabilitation, rather than a strategy for living with pain [...]