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Andrea Thompson

Articles by ‘Andrea Thompson’
Empowering workers to stay in their original employment.

Based on the rationale that it is easier to keep a job than to find a new one, the new focus of vocational rehabilitation for workers with chronic conditions is empowering the worker to stay in...

Arm pain and RTW - work modifications that work

Lessons learnt from an integrated case management approach for arm problems

Supervising recovery

Employer response to injury impacts employee recovery. This study identifies where employers go wrong and how to fix it!

Team ergonomics

This literature review examines some examples of the positive effects of participatory ergonomic (PE) intervention on improving workers' health.

Return to work is possible after Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

While CFS is a significantly debilitating and lengthy illness, there is evidence to suggest a return to work is possible after effective treatment.

Does zest for work influence return to work?

Job satisfaction and engagement both influence work attendance.

School of pain

How effective is individual patient education for people with low back pain?

Meeting the needs of injured workers

Peer support helps put the pieces back together after workplace injury

RTW interventions assessed

A mixed bag of workplace interventions have been trialled over the last 20 years. What works?

Critical illness, brain impairment and RTW

Are neurocognitive impairments being identified early enough, or at all, after critical illness?

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