I'm genuinely concerned I'll have to end a career I enjoy before I'm ready. It's honestly nuts how the expectations for sonographers have grown so much, and I would love it if there were more regulations to prevent abuse by employers.
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Lindey archer
6 years ago
I have chronic right neck, shoulder, upper back and arm pain with a partial rotator cuff tear after 10 years of scanning. I now
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Jessica Stamm
6 years ago
Signed
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Amy Penry Yachymczyk
6 years ago
limit amount of cases per shift
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Anonymous
6 years ago
only over 1 year and my wrist is alreay in pain.
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Joanna peret
6 years ago
I agree
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Beth Letendre
6 years ago
5 years in and I'm broken already.
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Tracy Haefner
6 years ago
MSK injuries have to be handled. Take care of your health care sonogarapher!
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Cassidy Witmer
6 years ago
Help us help you! We love what we do but almost all of our careers are shortened and lives changed by injuries from scanning to many patients in too short of time! We want to do our best for our patients but end up rushed through exams with all kinds of injuries. Sonography should be a great career but ends up being a stepping stone for many people as our bodies struggle to handle more than 20 years in this environment
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Tonya Capossela
6 years ago
I stand in solidarity with my colleagues. Our profession should not disable us and our patient load should not injure us.
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Miranda
6 years ago
30 Years scanning, 15 years scanning in pain....
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Currently experiencing chronic pain
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Workload too high
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Ahmed Elsayed
6 years ago
I work as echo tech they try to push me for 15 in 7 hours without break
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Mary Pidel
6 years ago
Done echo and vascular for 27 years and have have had 3 hand surgeries, rotator cuff injury and multiple nerve blocks in my low back. I hurt every day and need to retire but need the insurance... this has gotten worse as the technology has improved and the scans are longer..strain, 3D heart modeling, tissue doppler, TAVR and mitraclip studies, etc. Couple all that with the drive from hospital administration to increase productivity numbers and you have a recipe for sonographer injuries.
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Denise altamura
6 years ago
We need CHANGE!!!
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Margaret Scimeca
6 years ago
I have been a sonographer since 1988 and have repetitive stress injuries in several areas of my body.
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Rosanne Miranda
6 years ago
28 years of Sonography, Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Release, right tendinitis.
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Terrell Frain
6 years ago
Back pain, joint surgery needed of thumb from scanning. Long thoracic nerve palsy. Herniated disc.
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Denise Sutton
6 years ago
If a pitcher or a quarterback gets hurt during a game or practice, he is taking care of. Why is it so different for a sonographer? We don't get a week off after the game either & we work 8-10 hours a day & we don't get an off season. I don't believe a pitcher could do that.
I'm genuinely concerned I'll have to end a career I enjoy before I'm ready. It's honestly nuts how the expectations for sonographers have grown so much, and I would love it if there were more regulations to prevent abuse by employers.
I have chronic right neck, shoulder, upper back and arm pain with a partial rotator cuff tear after 10 years of scanning. I now
Signed
limit amount of cases per shift
only over 1 year and my wrist is alreay in pain.
I agree
5 years in and I'm broken already.
MSK injuries have to be handled. Take care of your health care sonogarapher!
Help us help you! We love what we do but almost all of our careers are shortened and lives changed by injuries from scanning to many patients in too short of time! We want to do our best for our patients but end up rushed through exams with all kinds of injuries. Sonography should be a great career but ends up being a stepping stone for many people as our bodies struggle to handle more than 20 years in this environment
I stand in solidarity with my colleagues. Our profession should not disable us and our patient load should not injure us.
30 Years scanning, 15 years scanning in pain....
Currently experiencing chronic pain
Workload too high
I work as echo tech they try to push me for 15 in 7 hours without break
Done echo and vascular for 27 years and have have had 3 hand surgeries, rotator cuff injury and multiple nerve blocks in my low back. I hurt every day and need to retire but need the insurance... this has gotten worse as the technology has improved and the scans are longer..strain, 3D heart modeling, tissue doppler, TAVR and mitraclip studies, etc. Couple all that with the drive from hospital administration to increase productivity numbers and you have a recipe for sonographer injuries.
We need CHANGE!!!
I have been a sonographer since 1988 and have repetitive stress injuries in several areas of my body.
28 years of Sonography, Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Release, right tendinitis.
Back pain, joint surgery needed of thumb from scanning. Long thoracic nerve palsy. Herniated disc.
If a pitcher or a quarterback gets hurt during a game or practice, he is taking care of. Why is it so different for a sonographer? We don't get a week off after the game either & we work 8-10 hours a day & we don't get an off season. I don't believe a pitcher could do that.