MONTEREY, Calif. — Camille Palma, MD, a vitreoretinal surgeon and trained yoga instructor, knows how to use one talent to work out the kinks caused by the other.
“We don’t think of ourselves as athletes, but we are sitting and standing and moving around and contorting our bodies around all of the equipment, and that’s why we hurt at the end of the day,” Palma said at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
Ergonomics has increasingly become a relevant topic, she said.
“What we’ve learned over the years is that everything we do is bad for our bodies