Preventing Back Injuries in Health Care Settings

Preventing Back Injuries in Health Care Settings

Categories: Ergonomics, Health care

September 22nd, 2008 9:00 am ET - Administrator

Healthcare workers often experience musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) at a rate exceeding that of workers in construction, mining, and manufacturing.¹ These injuries are due in large part to repeated manual patient handling activities, often involving heavy manual lifting associated with transferring, and repositioning patients and working in extremely awkward postures. The problem of lifting patients is compounded by the increasing weight of patients to be lifted due to the obesity epidemic in the United States and the rapidly increasing number of older people who require assistance with the activities of daily living.^2,

Strains, Sprains, and Pains in Home Healthcare: Working in an Uncontrolled Environment

Strains, Sprains, and Pains in Home Healthcare: Working in an Uncontrolled Environment

Traci Galinsky, PhD, and Garrett Burnett, MS, MBA

You hope the discharge planner was a good one. You hope the doors aren’t too narrow for the wheelchair and the bed is higher than knee-level. Even then, as likely as not, your work area will be the size of a crawlspace and strewn with clutter and medical equipment.
Welcome to life as a home healthcare provider. In 2007, America’s 896,800 home healthcare workers reported a staggering 27,400 injuries.¹ Some of these resulted from unintentional needlesticks, latex allergies, and violence against providers. However, the most common injuries were sprains, strains, and other musculoskeletal injuries related to lifting and moving patients.

Photos of injured athlete show progress | KXAN.com

Photos of injured athlete show progress | KXAN.com: Photos of injured athlete show progress

Kylie Doniak continues rehab in California

Updated: Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012, 2:25 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012, 1:58 PM CDT
Jackie Vega

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Just-released photos of an injured University of Texas soccer athlete show there is progress.

Kylie Doniak has been recovering since early February, when she was hit by a suspected drunken driver in Downtown Austin as she crossed the street.

Photos from the CaringBridge website show her hugging her dad during physical therapy and another of her kicking a soccer ball as she's seated in a wheelchair. They are the first images of Doniak since the hit-and-run wreck.

New tools tackle chronic pain - Houston Chronicle

New tools tackle chronic pain - Houston Chronicle: Judy Franklin tried surgery, physical therapy, nerve-blocking injections and a variety of medications to deal with chronic back pain over the past 30 years.

Nothing worked for long.

Late last month doctors implanted a spinal cord stimulator in the Pasadena resident's lower back. The device sends a low-voltage dose of electricity to the spinal nerves to stop pain signals from reaching the brain.

"I'm not going to say it's a cure-all," the 70-year-old said last week. "But it's working fairly well."

KORT Physical Therapists Now Offer Solutions to Pregnancy Aches and Pains

KORT Physical Therapists Now Offer Solutions to Pregnancy Aches and Pains: KORT Physical Therapists Now Offer Solutions to Pregnancy Aches and Pains
Although pregnancy is a time of great joy and excitement, it also brings with it numerous aches, pains and real discomfort. Physical Therapists at KORT Physical Therapy have solutions to help alleviate pregnancy aches and pains.

Lauren Scruggs seen in public for 1st time with prosthetic eye since plane propeller accident | Mail Online

Lauren Scruggs seen in public for 1st time with prosthetic eye since plane propeller accident | Mail Online: Pictured: Brave model Lauren Scruggs seen in public for first time with prosthetic eye since horrific propeller accident
By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED: 20:43 EST, 25 February 2012 Comments (98) Share

Model and fashion blogger Lauren Scruggs has been pictured for the first time with the prosthetic eye she was fitted with after accidentally walking into a plane propeller last year.
The 23-year-old was seen leaving a gym on Tuesday with her mother Cheryl in her home town of Dallas, Texas having made a remarkable recovery.
She was wearing her favourite blue Cowboys cap and a long-sleeved jacket covering her missing left hand.

D Magazine : Excellence in Dallas Nursing Awards

D Magazine : Excellence in Dallas Nursing Awards: Excellence in Dallas Nursing Awards

For our inaugural excellence in nursing awards, we asked doctors, patients, and other nurses to nominate the most outstanding nurses in North Texas. We really didn’t know what sort of response we’d get. So we were both gladdened and overwhelmed when we received 349 nominations. There was the nurse who contained an outbreak in a school. Then there was the nurse who staged a senior prom in the hospital for a patient who couldn’t attend his. Each nomination seemed more compelling than the last. Thankfully, we had some help picking the winners you’ll meet in the following pages. They all deserve our gratitude and far more words written about their hard work and good deeds than we had space to accommodate.

Texas Health-Care Services Accused by U.S. of $374 Million in Phony Bills - Bloomberg

Texas Health-Care Services Accused by U.S. of $374 Million in Phony Bills - Bloomberg: Texas Health-Care Services Accused by U.S. of $374 Million in Phony Bills
By Seth Stern - Feb 29, 2012 12:01 AM ET

Seven people in Texas billed U.S.government health programs for $374 million in services thatweren’t provided or necessary in the largest at-home health-carefraud scheme, according to the Justice Department.

FIBERTOWN Safeguards Critical IT Systems for Health Care Providers - Houston Chronicle

FIBERTOWN Safeguards Critical IT Systems for Health Care Providers - Houston Chronicle: FIBERTOWN Safeguards Critical IT Systems for Health Care Providers

More Houston health care organizations depend on FIBERTOWN data centers for business continuity and high availability colocation to ensure systems are always secure and running.

Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 07, 2012

FIBERTOWN, a premier provider of high availability Houston data centers and business continuity offices, successfully installed another health care provider into its Texas data centers. Community Health Choice, a division of Harris County Hospital District, selected the FIBERTOWN colocation facility in Bryan to power and protect its disaster recovery systems.

“High availability, security and disaster recovery are more important in health care today than ever,” said Brandon Perryman, senior vice president for FIBERTOWN. “We provide fully redundant, high-powered facilities to aid these organizations in improving health care delivery and optimizing processes.”

TeamSupport.com Powers ClinicSource.com Growth | Press Releases @ Your-Story.org

TeamSupport.com Powers ClinicSource.com Growth | Press Releases @ Your-Story.org: Web-Based Therapy Practice Management
Fast Tracks with TeamSupport
(Dallas, TX) TeamSupport.com (http://www.TeamSupport.com) – the popular provider of web-based customer support and help desk software solutions – today announced a successful integration of the company’s Enterprise Edition by ClinicSource.com, an innovative developer of management software for individual and group therapy practices. Their rapidly growing user-base includes thousands of Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational and Physical Therapists, and Mental Health professionals. ClinicSource is 100% Web-based and fully HIPAA compliant.

TeamSupport.com Powers ClinicSource.com Growth | Press Releases @ Your-Story.org

TeamSupport.com Powers ClinicSource.com Growth | Press Releases @ Your-Story.org: TeamSupport.com Powers ClinicSource.com Growth

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(Dallas, TX) TeamSupport.com (http://www.TeamSupport.com) – the popular provider of web-based customer support and help desk software solutions – today announced a successful integration of the company’s Enterprise Edition by ClinicSource.com, an innovative developer of management software for individual and group therapy practices. Their rapidly growing user-base includes thousands of Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational and Physical Therapists, and Mental Health professionals. ClinicSource is 100% Web-based and fully HIPAA compliant.

Department of Physical Therapy : Texas State University

Department of Physical Therapy : Texas State University: Admissions to the DPT Class of 2016

If you are looking to apply for the DPT Class of 2016, the application materials and documents will be available no later than May 1, 2012. For those looking to reapply to the program, reapplication procedures will be detailed in the application instructions. If you have any questions, please contact the PT Department at phystherapy@txstate.edu

Texas Physical Therapy Association

Texas Physical Therapy Association: SIGN THE PETITION FOR PATIENT ACCESS TO PHYSICAL THERAPY
Often referred to as Direct Access, Patient Access to Physical Therapists for treatment currently requires a referral from either a physician, dentist, chiropractor, podiatrist, physician assistant, or an advanced nurse practitioner of any type (midwives, clinical specialists, FNPs). Yet those specifically trained in this area are unable to refer or directly treat consumers for physical therapy. It is time to change the law in Texas.

Texas Physical Therapy Association

Texas Physical Therapy Association: TBPTE Adds New Step to the License Renewal Process
The Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (TBPTE) will require all licensees to submit their continuing competence activities beginning in February 2012. This decision is to help resolve the large number of failed CC audits, which represent 40% of all disciplinary actions taken by the TBPTE at each meeting. Licensees will enter the name, date, approval number, and number of CCUs granted for each activity during the renewal process.