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Two local MDs answer common questions about their work and share tips on how their patients can stay healthy.
Have you noticed a trend in patient complaints or injuries over the past year? And if so, how do you address them?
From an ergonomic perspective, there has been a slight uptick. Peo ple are using makeshift desks and are sharing space with spouses and children. We are seeing musculo skeletal, neck and arm pain complaints. We are seeing less in the way of industrial injuries and trauma as people have not been out and about as much over the past year. Many of these issues can be handled non-operatively with home exercises, physical and/or occupational therapy. My best advice for people working from home is to stretch before sitting down for the day, take frequent breaks, get a good night’s sleep, diet and exercise as prescribed by your doctor, and to overall be in tune with your body.
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We will partner with our occupational and physical therapists to address these types of issues before considering a surgical treatment option. We now have the ability to use computer-generated models to preplan and walk through surgeries before we get in the operating room. This is a great advance ment, particularly for shoulder replacements and other complicated surgeries. Patients requiring a complicated revision surgery now have access to more advanced instru mentation and implants than they would have a decade ago. These allow the surgeon to address difficult anatomy revision situations, particularly if there is bone loss or deformity from prior surgeries. – Steven Grindel, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with The Froedtert and The Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network.
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