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“Micro Breaks” with Stretching Enhance Surgeon Physical Function and Focus

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Re: “Micro Breaks” with Stretching Enhance Surgeon Physical Function and Focus

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Post by wtvanhest »

jessriedel wrote: post #18
Retric wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some objective measurements you can make on surgeon performance. Things like rate of infection or other complications have variability but do relate to surgeon competence in aggregate. Assuming, random patient selection.

Sure, but you probably have to collect a lot more data to tease our such a tiny effect. Pain could plausibly be reduced by 50% with the correct exercises, but the complication rate would presumably change by at most a tiny amount.

One solution would be to change the test to "perceived pain". It doesn't matter if the person feels pain or not, if they perceive that they don't feel pain and it is less of a mental burden on them, stretching worked.

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Post by tcoff91 »

melling wrote: post #17
henrik_w wrote: post #3

I credit micro breaks and stretching as the main reason I got over my severe RSI [1]. Never really heard that surgeons had similar problems though, but I guess it is the same mechanism - too much fine motor action for too long without a break. [1] https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/

I remember reading this blog. There doesn't seem to one good way to cure RSI. There are tons of stories here with lots of different "solutions": https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/README...

You're right that there isn't one way to cure RSI because RSI is an umbrella term for many different problems.

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Post by melling »

tcoff91 wrote: post #22
melling wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember reading this blog. There doesn't seem to one good way to cure RSI. There are tons of stories here with lots of different "solutions": https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/README...

You're right that there isn't one way to cure RSI because RSI is an umbrella term for many different problems.

Can you provide some examples?

By not being specific when discussing it, it's harder for people to learn, and to figure out how to treat it.

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Post by melling »

maxxxxx wrote: post #20
melling wrote: post #17

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I remember reading this blog. There doesn't seem to one good way to cure RSI. There are tons of stories here with lots of different "solutions": https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/README...

The "one good way" to get RSI is repetitive action as the name already implies. So anything that breaks that repetition will help to some degree.

Once you get it, it's extremely hard to figure out how to treat it. Sure, if you avoid the repetitive stress in the first place, that's ideal. For some people, once it happens, they can't reduce the "repetiveness" enough.

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Post by dvtv75 »

melling wrote: post #25
tcoff91 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right that there isn't one way to cure RSI because RSI is an umbrella term for many different problems.

Can you provide some examples? By not being specific when discussing it, it's harder for people to learn, and to figure out how to treat it.

In my experience, tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome are hand and wrist examples, tennis elbow, there are neck problems, upper back problems, shoulder problems, general muscle balance problems.

I developed a click in my wrist from mousing for 10 hours a day at work, without a break. (Yeah, I know it is illegal, and so did they.) That took a few years to go away.

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