A survey of dentists in Poland recently shows that most of them have some kind neck pain or back pain.
Indeed, dentists have an ergonomic problem. It’s hard work for your spinal muscles to continually be stooped over a patient doing meticulous work on someone’s teeth. If you are a dentist, your spinal muscles have to suspend the weight of your head and body in a fixed position for several minutes at a time.
This study shows that 92% of all dentists suffer from some sort of muscle, bone and joint syndrome or pain in the body! The most problematic part was neck pain (47%) and back pain (35%). Some other areas of repetitive strain injury for dentists are:
- fingers (29%)
- hips (23%)
- midback (20%)
- shoulders (20%)
- wrists (18%)
- knees, feet, or elbows (15%)
The conclude that, just like industrial workers, dentists need to take frequent microbreaks to stretch, and they need to work on their ergonomics in practice. One of the big findings also reveal that the longer a dentist is in practice, the more likely he is to have a musculoskeletal disorder.
Todd Lloyd, DC
Chiropractic PhysicianÂ
Chiropractic PhysicianÂ
So many health professionals are bent over patients in awkward positions. These accumulative stresses on not only a daily, but monthly and many years basis cause damage to the muscles, tendons, ligaments and overall alignment. Many people don’t realize these problems until years down the road. Just another reason everybody should get checked periodically by a chiropractor.
There is a mid-thoracic spinal pain syndrome which is common to dentists. The condition is known as Roberts Syndrome. Here is St George UT, we have plenty of dentists. Sounds like good place for a St George chiropractor to start a niche marketing campaign.
I’d love to get my google on. As soon as I hit a PR5, I’m throwing a party.
Andrew White
St George UT chiropractor
Ah yes. I forgot to mention: Here at Innova Pain Clinic, our doctors are specially trained to treat dentists with neck pain. That’s all we do. Dr. White, I think you’re on to something! I think there are more dentists in St. George than there are out of work real estate agents. If we can get each one of them linking to our web sites, we could all have a PR6 by the end of the month.
Dr. Lloyd.
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