“When an employer is seen to make an effort to support the worker ... the lift in RTW rates are remarkable” I have recently returned from the International Forum on Disability Management in Kuala Lumpur. The synergy between the workplace rehabilitation and disability management sectors is huge, with the evidence clearly showing that getting people into a productive work environment reaps huge benefits, whether they have been absent through injury, illness or disability.
There were a few standout presentations over the three-day program. Professor Mohammed Ranavaya, a US physician representing the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners, spoke about how, as humans, we ‘practice to make perfect’. However, some of our clients practice negative self-talk. Thus, they become disabled not from the injury, illness or disease, but their response to…
