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We are proud to announce that IPAR has recently been recognised as a Veteran Friendly Employer under the DVA Veteran Employment Program.

IPAR has been a signatory to the Veteran Employment Program for some time. As a Veteran Friendly Employer, we are recognised for our commitment to improving outcomes for the veteran community and contributing to best practices that enhance the employment experience at IPAR for veterans and veteran family members.

We understand and recognise the unique skills, experience and values that veterans, ex and current serving Australian Defence Force (ADF) members and ADF family members bring to our workplace. We’re passionate about bringing service-life lived experience into our business to not only support veterans in their transition and employment into the civilian workforce, but to support our clients and customers too.

At IPAR we provide veteran-friendly supports to assist veterans and veteran family members to perform their best in our workplace.

To learn more about some of the support we have available for veterans and veteran family members, and our latest career opportunities, please visit  https://ipar.com.au/veteran-and-veteran-family-careers

At IPAR, we value Great People, with Big Hearts and Bold Ideas. One of our boldest ideas has been increasing our leadership team’s capacity, so that our consultants are further supported and enabled to deliver better outcomes for our clients and customers. We recently gathered this leadership team – including Team Leaders, Branch Managers and Technical Managers – to join us at the 2024 IPAR Leadership Conference.

The purpose of the conference is to ensure that IPAR’s values are embedded in everything we do. We take time to reflect, learn and grow as a leadership team, so that we can be resilient leaders to our people in this ever-changing world. A particular highlight was hearing from Australian Free Diver, Adam Sellars from The Pressure Project on how the secrets of free diving can help us to be more present, focused, and compassionate as we go about our important work.

Thank you to all of the leaders who joined us, as well as the leaders who ‘held the fort’ back at the office. And a big thank you to all the partners, spouses and family members of our leaders, who looked after babies, children and fur babies at home so that we could spend such valuable time together.

We are thrilled to announce that IPAR’s Re-thinking Recovery service has been featured in a recently released international discussion paper titled “Making Pain Education Better: historical underpinnings & recent innovations” authored by globally respected experts Professor Lorimer Moseley (University of South Australia) and Professor Cormac Ryan (Teesside University, UK).

Available for download from the PETAL Collaboration website, this thought-provoking paper delves into the complexities of pain perception, its psychosocial impact, and proposes a holistic framework for comprehensive pain education.

The paper also discusses some very promising results from our Re-thinking Recovery service and we have summarised some key highlights below:

“Rethinking Recovery is not a pain management programme and does not aim to be one. The focus is on attaining specific learning objectives through both immersive embodied experiences and active learning strategies. Those learning objectives were identified by recovered consumers to be most helpful for their own recovery”

“…in this case the IPAR Re-thinking Recovery occupational rehabilitation VR-enhances pain education program – seems to offer important clinical benefits at a fraction of the cost of specialist pain services and with shorter delay between referral and episode of care”

“One might suggest that such new wave pain education should at least be seen as an important step in the pathway of returning people with disabling chronic pain to work”

“…programs such as IPARs Rethinking Recovery take a compelling body of evidence and build a new wave pain education intervention which, no doubt will be reviewed, refined, and updated, upon review of data”

“Early examples of VR-enhanced new wave education (such as IPAR’s Rethinking Recovery)… give good reason to be optimistic: pain severity, interference and pain-related self-efficacy outcomes – the most important mediators of wellbeing improvements – seem comparable to that being achieved by specialist pain services … at a fraction of the time and economic investment…”

If you would like to know more about how Re-thinking Recovery is improving recovery outcomes for those impacted by persistent pain please email re-thinkingrecovery@ipar.com.au or contact National Manager of Pain and Recovery Services Aaron Bowes.

June 2023: We are proud to commence a celebration of 20 years of IPAR, recognising the difference our people and services have made in the lives of many over the past two decades. 20 years is a significant celebration for our business and represents the passion, commitment and hard work of hundreds of IPAR people, especially the team we have today.

In 2003, IPAR started in a small office with a big idea to improve outcomes within the occupational rehabilitation industry. IPAR quickly became one of the fastest growing companies in Australia, making it to the BRW Fastest Growing Companies list for three consecutive years.

Even with rapid growth, we never lost sight of our core purpose: to improve outcomes. We are proud to provide exceptional care to our clients, customers and people. This has always been at the heart of our culture and remains so today.

Over the next 12 months, we will be highlighting the work of our people and sharing the amazing stories that have come from our business: stories of inspiring IPAR careers, remarkable client outcomes, trusted customer partnerships and the amazing contributions IPAR has made to the industry. We will also be working ever closer with our charity partners, Ronald McDonald House Charities and Invictus Australia to continue to make a difference in our community.

To our customers, clients and people: thank you for being part of the IPAR journey and thank you for your support in making our business what it is today.

It was a pleasure to be in attendance with Professor Lorimer Moseley and Reality Health at the Self Insurers of South Australia Forum, held in Adelaide on February 10. Professor Moseley gave valuable insight into the current research surrounding pain treatment, and the areas where improvements can be made.

We also heard from Reality Health’s Ben Sheat, who took us through the Reality Health Program. Ben was supported by IPAR’s South Australian pain coaches, Alice Gerlach and Kirsti Haupt, who gave demonstrations and discussions on IPAR’s national Re-thinking Recovery service which utilises the Reality Health platform.

Thank you to Lawson Risk, the event sponsor. As always, it was a pleasure to come together with Professor Moseley and Reality Health to share our mutual passion for supporting individuals impacted by persistent pain.