Written by:<\/strong> Shana Carter<\/a>, PT, DPT, OCS, UDN-C, EDD<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Injury rates in rehab professionals in the United States continues to remain a primary concern for both clinicians\u00a0and employers due time lost at work, potential for long-term issues following injury and healthcare cost to both the employee and employer. However, in many healthcare settings where clinicians\u00a0are employed, ergonomic training\u00a0is often treated as a check-in-the-box task for training and less like a viable injury\u00a0prevention and risk mitigation tool. Factors including clinician\u00a0caseload, frequency of breaks during the day and activity lifestyle practices outside of the workplace are rarely factored into ergonomic training in the healthcare environment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0The Daily Tasks Quietly Driving Clinician Injury<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The highest rate of injury among rehab clinicians\u00a0is often directly related to patient transfers, patient mobility tasks or performance of repeated tasks in manual therapy without proper joint protection strategies. Also landing in the top of category for clinician mechanisms of injury in the workplace is attempting to complete tasks in awkward\u00a0positions and maintaining positions\u00a0with poor postural alignment for extended periods of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u201cEvery injury to a health care worker is preventable. Every one of them.\u201d\u00a0 (Gerwing, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n If you are a clinician\u00a0who is interested in branching into ergonomics consulting, decreasing your personal injury risk at your workplace or helping healthcare teams keep their rehab employees active and injury\u00a0free this course is for you! Join us as we explore how to develop and implement real life ergonomic solutions that meet daily clinical\u00a0demands for clinicians instead of simply being a check-in-the box training course you have to attend!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Gerwig, K. (2023, October 27).\u00a0\u201cEvery injury to a health care worker is preventable.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Institute for Healthcare Improvement.\u00a0https:\/\/www.ihi.org\/library\/blog\/every-injury-health-care-worker-preventable<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-10-300x201.jpg\")
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