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Our Psychologist Rachel Kovacevic was also recently interviewed for a piece by our friends at the ControlMyPain Project. Visit their website for the full story: Pain Catastrophizing – Is it making your chronic pain worse?”.
How do we get key recovery messages to people with pain in rural and remote areas?
How do we get key recovery messages to people with pain in rural and remote areas? This was a question for discussion and debate amongst allied health professionals gathered at the SARRAH Conference in Darwin this month.Informed by years of practice in the...
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ePPOC – Collaborative Data Sharing for Pain Management
In the process reviewing your Pain Service in time for the new-year? On the look-out for new best practice ideas? Consider aligning your data collection with ePPOC (electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration). It’s been a big year for health system...
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The Move Toward Interprofessional Practice
We were delighted to be a part of the Victoria University Interprofessional Health Education & Practice (IHEP) International Conference earlier this month. One of the biggest discoveries we made was realising that the theory of ‘interprofessional practice’ aligns...
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National Primary Health Care Review – Get Involved!
For most of us working in chronic pain the barriers to quality, community-based care are all too familiar. The shortage of health professionals with chronic pain training, the wait times at specialist pain services, the distances faced by those in regional and rural...
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Kids & Chronic Pain
You don’t have to look too far to see that chronic pain management in Australia is largely focused on treating adults and the elderly. Look a little closer and you’ll see that there’s a huge gap when it comes to children and adolescents, which begs the question: is...
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Waiting in Pain – Finding Innovative ways to Reduce Patient Wait Times
We’ve all heard the stats about excessive wait times for outpatient access to chronic pain care, and yes, it’s mostly all doom and gloom. But by spending a little time developing tweaks to service delivery models, we reckon there are plenty of ways that allied health...
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The Role of Passive Therapies in Pain Rehab Treatment
There’s a lot of conflicting information out there about the role of passive therapies in effectively treating chronic pain conditions, so this month we thought we’d take a closer look at what it all means to you and your patients. When it comes to effective...
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Encouraging Pain Patients to re-engage in Key Functional Roles over the Holiday Season
No matter where they might be in their rehab/recovery journey, chronic pain patients can find Christmas to be a challenging time. In particular, it’s a time where re-engaging with everyday tasks can take on a whole lot more meaning. Christmas is often a time when we...
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Occupational Rehab and the Role of the ORP
Got your head around where ORPs fit in to the Return to Work landscape? Yes? Nice work! Not so much? No worries, this month we thought we’d fill you in. In the rehab training and outreach that we do with other allied health providers around the country, we’re...
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The Modern Physio’s guide to Good Chronic Pain Management
If you’re a physiotherapist and you treat chronic pain patients then chances are you’ve been faced with a range of presenting symptoms outside of the straight-up physical. If you’ve ever wondered how best to handle curve-ball issues like the emotional stress and...
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How to Prepare your Clients for Surgery
For anyone facing an impending surgical procedure, it’s pretty normal to come face-to-face with a range of fears and emotions in the lead-up to the big day. In the context of chronic pain, the prospect of surgery to assist with pain management can sometimes hold the...
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Pain Catastrophizing and How to Manage it
This month we wanted to talk about the implications of catastrophic thinking in chronic pain rehab, look at the psychology of pain catastrophizing and explore some of the ways in which you can help your patients to manage it. Catastrophizing has been classified as "a...
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Innovative Rehab joins the Campaign for Pain
As many of you would be aware, Pain Australia is a national not-for-profit body established to improve the treatment and management of pain in Australia. We’ve recently jumped on board as a supporting member of Pain Australia and part of that support means that we’re...
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Heed The Call! Develop your Skills in Pain Rehab
Time to brush up on your chronic pain management skills? Feel like you need a better handle on some of the unknowns? Good news: our workshops are here to help. Gone are the days of allied health professionals just focusing on one aspect of a patient's recovery plan....
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dorsaVi – A New Way to Diagnose and Treat Complex Back Pain
If you’re treating patients with complex back pain, chances are you’ll be juggling a mix of different tools to help with diagnosis and testing and for presenting your data to patients. Seems kind of clunky, doesn't it? Wouldn’t it be great if the whole process could...
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To Disclose or not to Disclose? Managing a Disability in the Workplace
As we know, people recovering from injury or mental illness grapple with a range of identity and privacy issues when they start to consider a return to work. From handling the emotional impact of being off work, to navigating an effective return to work plan, there’s...
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Treatment Plans – giving structure to your clinical work
First of all, we’d like to wish a very happy new year to you all. With many folks away on holidays during January, the start of the year can be a quiet time for clinical practice. It’s therefore a nice opportunity to review the way that we work and ideally, to find...
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Taking a Collaborative Approach to Chronic Pain Management
Given that chronic pain affects one in five Australians and a third of people aged over 65, chances are that if you’re an allied health professional, you will likely deal with a large number of chronic pain patients. In the past, clinical treatment often focused on...
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Chronic Pain and the Importance of Movement
When it comes to managing chronic pain, regular gentle exercise is something that should be incorporated into any treatment plan. Physical inactivity due to illness or injury can contribute to a host of additional health issues including depression, weight gain and...
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WORK SAFE WEEK – Our Tips on facilitating a successful Return to Work
This week is Work Safe Week, so we thought it would be a prime time to talk about some of the issues around dealing with clients who are returning to work after illness or injury. It is now well established that being away from work for an extended period can have a...
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DASS – Our Top Tool for broadening the scope of your Clinical Assessment
Facebook Twitter Website Here at Innovative Rehab we’re really passionate about the benefits of a multi-disciplinary approach. We consider what we do as ‘innovative’ because, we embrace knowledge from a range of disciplines to get a full understanding of clinical...
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Working with chronic pain is the next workshop on our calendar. Working with Chronic Pain Workshop Outline
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