In a cross-sectional study of 350 dental personnel, by Samat et al (2011), 52.4% of dental technicians experienced back pain. Risk factors included poor posture and arguably this could be said to be true of the whole team, including dental nurses – I can certainly see why, having observed a typical day in practice.
When initially asked to write this article, I did a quick ‘Google’ of ‘dental nurses working’ and here is what I found.
In Figure 1, take a look at how the dental nurse is sitting – head tilted to her right, left arm elevated, shoulders hunched forwards, back rotated to the left, need I go on? There are a multitude of sins here from a physiotherapist's perspective. I would anticipate:
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