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Prioritizing Mental Health for Workers Injured On The Job WCRI

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I decided to place this session by itself as I had written on this session last week. Prioritizing mental health of injured workers has came to the forefront in “the whole person” medical treatment.

Dr. Boden – Suicide and Opioid Mortality Related to Workplace Injury

Injured Worker Mortality in New Mexico

  • graphic of blood pressure kit prioritizing mental health
    (c) Public Domian

    Women – Lost time injured -10%

  • Men – Lost time injured – 16%

Suicides and Opioids result in more deaths than auto accidents

Drug-related and suicide deaths within 20 years after injury – 300% higher in women

A study from West Virginia – same results

Injured employees had a very heavy tendency for opioid dependency

40% increase in depression post-injury lost-time claims

Injury prevention is tantamount.

Mr. Callahan – MA Building Trades Council

  • 93% male workforce
  • If you do not work, you do not get paid
  • A lot of addiction due to return to work issues, need to work
  • Peer-to-peer advisors have been successful

Mary Christensen – Southern CA Edison

  • Advocacy program – 360-degree outlook
  • EAP provider teaming with claims department for services offered by EAP
  • Non-occ claims reps brought in for training
  • Identifying stuck employees

Dr. Larsen – New England Baptist Hospital

  • CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – coping skills
  • Pre-frontal therapy never addresses the limbic system
  • Limbic approach EMDR- Rapid Eye Movement treatment
  • Reteach breathing to lower stress
  • Sense of learned helplessness <<<I have seen this often in Workers Comp claims >>>
  • Lew Millender, MD – Baptist Hospital – if you care about your patients, they will return to work faster
  • Field Case Manager – Rehab Nurse on file always makes the file turn out better <<<my favorite WC Risk Management Technique>>>> 
  • Return to work always has to be the goal when prioritizing mental health
  • Trauma theatre – rewind effect of the trauma
  • Physical therapists are invaluable to the psychological recovery

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