by Michael Coupland | Nov 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
She was a high-powered, highly respected workers’ compensation executive when she suddenly found herself unable to speak a complete sentence. She couldn’t use eating utensils properly. The painstaking, carefully crafted documentation she had written turned out to be...
by Michael Coupland | Nov 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
A small but extremely impairing condition we see among injured workers is migraine headaches. As anyone who has had a migraine knows, these can be debilitating. Are migraines a common complaint you hear from injured workers? Are they associated with any particular...
by Michael Coupland | Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
The more you fear pain, the more you feel pain. That fact, backed up by years of research helps explain why some injured workers with seemingly simple conditions end up with debilitating chronic pain. They don’t understand why they are in pain, don’t know when it...
by Michael Coupland | Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fear is a scary thing; especially among injured workers. Those who say they are afraid/scared/worried/anxious at the beginning of a claim were shown in a recent study to have average lost time claim costs 3.5 times higher than those who didn’t, and were also more...
