Rehabilitation expert David Bingham discusses the role of rehabilitation as an absence management tool, and how companies are becoming increasingly aware of its benefits.
Work-related injuries and time away from the workplace are becoming areas of increasing concern for employers. As a result, many companies are now seeking alternative and proactive ways of managing and reducing their exposure. Consequently, rehabilitation has become something of a buzz word in both the health insurance and occupational health world. While the word 'rehabilitation' has been wrongly used to describe case management, physiotherapy, telephone management, gym sessions and many other interventions, it is more accurately defined as "restoration of function". Rehabilitation can, ...
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