Breaking the web of needless disability

Experiences, impacts and service needs of injured and ill workers in the WSIB process: evidence from Thunder Bay and District (Ontario, Canada)

“…These regional issues are consistent with research documenting disproportionate negative impacts of workplace injuries on injured workers in remote and rural communities and associated lack of access to care. 44,[48][49][50][51] We also documented regional cultural impacts of workplace injury, including loss of equipment for local recreational pastimes. For example, workers described losing boats and snow machines (snowmobiles), which serve as transportation and connection to community, when their income was not adequately replaced.…”

Occupational Pain Medicine: From Paradigm Shift in Pain Neuroscience to Contextual Model of Care

“…Beales et al (2016) also review helpful and unhelpful occupational and insurance contexts within which work injuries are managed, the critical role of and strategies for achieving a timely and sustainable return to work (RTW), and implementation strategies for improving RTW (e.g., Buchbinder et al, 2001; Loisel et al, 2001; Franche et al, 2005, 2009; Waddell and Burton, 2005; McCluskey et al, 2006; Schultz et al, 2007; Damschroder et al, 2009; Carroll et al, 2010; Pransky et al, 2011; Caruso, 2013; Aurbach, 2014; van Vilsteren et al, 2015; Linton et al, 2016). They argue that optimizing compensation environments enables positive helpful injury journeys for individuals and thus improved outcomes, and can be achieved by recognizing the two overarching principles mentioned above and integrating such recognition at all levels: system (legislation, structure and policy), organizational (regulatory bodies, insurers, employers, workplaces), and individual (individuals with PP, families, practitioners, supervisors, co-workers, medicolegal assessors, clinical panels).…”