Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Kirsten Davie: Physiotherapy New Zealand President on an NZ Initiative report on ACC

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Kirsten Davie: Physiotherapy New Zealand President on an NZ Initiative report on ACC · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Our new report ones accs focused on the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: Government's halted a decade of decline on long term claims,
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  Speaker 1: but the New Zealand Initiative reckons that's because support's being
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  Speaker 1: cut short, not due to proven recovery. Kirsten Davy is
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  Speaker 1: President and Chair of Physiotherapy New Zealand, joins us this morning. Kirston,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Laurena Ryan, good to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of this look?
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  Speaker 2: Return to work? The timely return to work is really important.
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  Speaker 2: It's important for the patient, it's important for business, it's
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  Speaker 2: important for the New Zealand economy. But as physiotherapist, what's
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  Speaker 2: important for us for our patients is to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that it is a safe and sustainable return to work.
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  Speaker 2: And so we really need to be careful around those
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  Speaker 2: performance measures and making sure that they are appropriate and
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  Speaker 2: that the person's being able to access physiotherapy, rehab, get
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  Speaker 2: the appropriate here and enter back into the workforce and
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  Speaker 2: appropriate and timely fashion.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the long term claims Paul, that you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about or are you talking about people who are just
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  Speaker 1: off for a couple of weeks? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think it's a combination. There's no doubt that
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  Speaker 2: that long term's claim Paul did increase over a period
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  Speaker 2: of time. There some of that was due to the
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  Speaker 2: fact that ACC changed their case management system and therefore
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  Speaker 2: they weren't sitting at the table, they weren't present and
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  Speaker 2: involved as involved as they had previously been with return
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  Speaker 2: to work. But it is also those people that we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing currently who have had two or three or four
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  Speaker 2: weeks off work, Kristen.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't ever want to see you a physiotherapist,
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  Speaker 1: or see any physiotherapist in my life because you, Lord
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  Speaker 1: knows you don't, I've seen many of them because of
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  Speaker 1: my mind back. But what sport do you? What do
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  Speaker 1: you tell people they should do for exercise's what are
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  Speaker 1: the best ones? So swimming is always good, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: I look swimmings good, But we don't live in a
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  Speaker 2: swimming pool, do we? And so we need to do
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  Speaker 2: weight bearing exercises as well walking resisted weights. Physiotherapists will
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  Speaker 2: be about to advise you and give you a good,
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  Speaker 2: safe and sustainable exercise program, Ryan, So you could go
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  Speaker 2: and visit one.
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  Speaker 1: Is what's the worst?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Still CrossFit? People say CrossFit was terrible for everyone's backs
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  Speaker 1: and legs and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think when you know, being a couch potatoes
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  Speaker 2: not great and absolutely extreme sport is challenging and that's
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  Speaker 2: where you're going to get those injuries. That's where physiotherapy
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  Speaker 2: needs to come in and be involved and help you
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  Speaker 2: get back to your job.
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  Speaker 1: Brian, get on your kiss and thank your Kisten Davy,
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  Speaker 1: President and Chair of Physiotherapy in New Zealand. You could
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  Speaker 1: always do CrossFit from the couch. There are literally onlines
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  Speaker 1: that you can do it on YouTube CrossFit from your couch,
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  Speaker 1: So a combination of the two worst things potentially.
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