Knowledge for Better Health: Your Resource for Insights and Updates

This Remembrance Day, a look at what comes after service. Most Veterans move into civilian work successfully - but for the nearly one in five who find the transition difficult, the outcomes look very different.

For National Pain Awareness Week: a clean scan doesn't mean nothing is wrong. Why chronic pain and imaging don't always line up, and what functional assessment can measure that a scan can't.

For Mental Illness Awareness Week: the three things case managers control before a complex mental health referral goes out - and why they shape the assessment that comes back.

Most people picture the exam room when they think of an IME. But behind every report is a coordination, records and review team whose work you rarely see - and it's why your reports arrive complete and on time.

Canada's workforce is getting older, and people are working later in life than they used to. That's a good thing in many ways, and it quietly changes the kind of claims landing on case managers' desks.

Medical clearance and genuine readiness are not the same thing, and treating them as interchangeable is one of the most common reasons return-to-work plans fail.

Substance use is one of the most under-recognized factors in disability and injury claims. Not because it is rare, but because it rarely announces itself.

Knowing the difference between an FCE and IME helps you request the right assessment the first time and avoid the cost and delay of ordering the wrong one.

Claims practice runs on the medical model. Disability Pride Month asks a different question - one that belongs in claims work too. Here's how it fits.

A worker on an SSRI doing residential roofing in July is at a different risk profile than the worker beside him on no medication at all. Most files won't say that out loud. Most IMEs won't ask.