Injured workers for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of work injury, or a second opinion.

Treating practitioners who'd appreciate a second opinion to assist in the management of a complicated or recalcitrant case, often in a chronic pain and/or compensation environment.

Employers seeking to determine whether a worker or prospective worker has the physical capacity to perform work in a safe and sustainable manner. This might be a pre-employment screening, or return-to-work following a work or non-work-related injury.

Workers’ compensation insurers, agents, workplace rehabilitation providers who require a ‘medical expert’ opinion in relation to a disputed, complicated or recalcitrant workers’ compensation claim where there is a need for a non-treater’s opinion about:

• Diagnosis
  
• Cause and contributing factors
• Biopsychosocial barriers to recovery and return-to-work
• The necessity and appropriateness of the investigations and treatment that have been provided or proposed by the treating practitioners
• Prognosis
• Work capacity (both current and future)
• Strategies for overcoming barriers in order to optimise recovery and return to work
• Peer-to-peer communication with treating practitioners for purposes of gathering or distributing information to promote recovery and return to work.

Income protection and life/disability insurers who require a ‘medical expert’ opinion in relation to a claim involving a disabling musculoskeletal injury, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and current and future ability to work.