I suffer daily with pain in my neck/shoulder region. I also have Lupus so it makes my pain especially greater. I don't think I will be able to make a 65 year retirement age.
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Jenna VanderVelde
11 years ago
yay!!
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Katie Lehmkuhl
11 years ago
Often times hospitals under staff and over work their sonographers which is wrong.
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Crystal Brown
11 years ago
Please help us continue to make a difference!. My shoulder hurts everyday. I'm a young full time working mom of two little boys. I have a hard time doing simple things, even sometimes picking up my little boy. I have chronic left sided neck pain. I have tendinitis in both wrists and getting worse add the years go on. I use every type of ergonomic correct way of scanning and try to take breaks as much as possible. I've been in this career for 12 yards and I'd love to go longer, but my body feels like it is slowly deteriorating. It really is sad.
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connie anderson
11 years ago
More sonographers scan in pain than are reported. The physicians need to be well educated in sonographer injury so that we can maintain some health with the ridiculous demands of hte bean counters.
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Connie Lorenz
11 years ago
Signed!
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Kimberly Hutchinson
11 years ago
I am having pain in my hand, elbow, and shoulder. Doing this for 30 plus years. Love it but trying to find something else I can make as much money, with less pain.
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Kristen Gianoli
11 years ago
sonographer in Regina, SK, Canada
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Gayle Platt
11 years ago
glad to know I'm not alone...
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Patricia Baxter
11 years ago
RVT
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Tabitha Perez
11 years ago
I see a massage therapist and Chiropractor 3x a month for my Musculoskeletal issues due to scanning! Please help get the word out!!
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Sharon Duggan
11 years ago
I have been a tech for 18 years, just had shoulder surgery due to overuse
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Tiffany Elrod
11 years ago
As a over booked "young" Sonographer, I am already feeling the effects of this! I have days where I have seen 25+ patients in a 8 hour day! There are already days where my back & shoulder are killing me! & I'm only 2 years in.
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Dawn Coleman
11 years ago
this is definitely needed!!..
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Roberta Brown R.D.C.S.
11 years ago
I have had carpal tunnel surgery in my scanning hand
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Lori Anderson
11 years ago
I've been scanning for over 20 years and have had 4 arm surgeries. I also have chronic back pain too. Scanning both right and left handed has helped somewhat.
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Salma Wadud
11 years ago
I dont think there is a sonographer I know who has't complained of wrist, arm, shoulder or neck pain over time.
14 years scanning and already had carpal tunnel surgery. I visited the chiropractor weekly until I just had a fusion of my lumbar sacral spine due to spinal stenosis. My spine surgery can't be totally attributed to work, but I am sure it helped expedite the procedure due to our poor posturing during ultrasound procedures.
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Heidi Stiers
11 years ago
I've been doing Ultrasound for 16 years and I have pain almost daily. Kudos for starting this and I hope our voices are heard.
I suffer daily with pain in my neck/shoulder region. I also have Lupus so it makes my pain especially greater. I don't think I will be able to make a 65 year retirement age.
yay!!
Often times hospitals under staff and over work their sonographers which is wrong.
Please help us continue to make a difference!. My shoulder hurts everyday. I'm a young full time working mom of two little boys. I have a hard time doing simple things, even sometimes picking up my little boy. I have chronic left sided neck pain. I have tendinitis in both wrists and getting worse add the years go on. I use every type of ergonomic correct way of scanning and try to take breaks as much as possible. I've been in this career for 12 yards and I'd love to go longer, but my body feels like it is slowly deteriorating. It really is sad.
More sonographers scan in pain than are reported. The physicians need to be well educated in sonographer injury so that we can maintain some health with the ridiculous demands of hte bean counters.
Signed!
I am having pain in my hand, elbow, and shoulder. Doing this for 30 plus years. Love it but trying to find something else I can make as much money, with less pain.
sonographer in Regina, SK, Canada
glad to know I'm not alone...
RVT
I see a massage therapist and Chiropractor 3x a month for my Musculoskeletal issues due to scanning! Please help get the word out!!
I have been a tech for 18 years, just had shoulder surgery due to overuse
As a over booked "young" Sonographer, I am already feeling the effects of this! I have days where I have seen 25+ patients in a 8 hour day! There are already days where my back & shoulder are killing me! & I'm only 2 years in.
this is definitely needed!!..
I have had carpal tunnel surgery in my scanning hand
I've been scanning for over 20 years and have had 4 arm surgeries. I also have chronic back pain too. Scanning both right and left handed has helped somewhat.
I dont think there is a sonographer I know who has't complained of wrist, arm, shoulder or neck pain over time.
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14 years scanning and already had carpal tunnel surgery. I visited the chiropractor weekly until I just had a fusion of my lumbar sacral spine due to spinal stenosis. My spine surgery can't be totally attributed to work, but I am sure it helped expedite the procedure due to our poor posturing during ultrasound procedures.
I've been doing Ultrasound for 16 years and I have pain almost daily. Kudos for starting this and I hope our voices are heard.