For Nicole Bajic, MD, learning more about ergonomics was a necessity.
In 2018, in her last year of residency, she was rearended by a work truck on a Chicago highway and suffered a herniated disc in her neck.
“It was then that I knew I needed to protect my neck and my back,” she said at Real World Ophthalmology. “I regularly woke up with a frozen neck, which was a huge limitation in the OR and in the clinic.”
Musculoskeletal disorders are common among health care professionals, Bajic said, and (Read more...)