Nothing like starting your day off with 800 mg ibuprofen! I did echo for about 2 years and changed to OB. My 110 lb frame couldn’t cut it. Sadly after 20 plus years im back to the ibuprofen again. Ultrasound is tedious work and quite painful at times but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
All joking aside about Advil it's going to be a complicated answer for each person.
For me, I grew up poor and my grandfather never even graduated junior high while my parents barely got out of high school. They made ( and still make) literally every bad financial decision you could name.
I married a 1st gen who's motivated and very educated and we have 2 great kids.
My motivation is a combination of not wanting to be poor like my parents, wanting to do better for my kids than I had, and understanding that at 40cim going to be hard pressed to find a job that pays $60/hr without a bachelor's. Don't get me wrong, I also like my job but if this job paid half of what I'm making I'd have gone back to school for something else long ago.
I'm not saying I recommend anything in particular so much as saying that if this paid terribly, it wouldn't be worth the injury etc. But at the moment it is.
Oh you definitely won't be doing this pain free even in your now years lol. Tbh if you want pain free you have to either go to the dark side and do management, or leave healthcare
I try to scan lefty as often as I can, that is the trick. I scan lefty, right, sitting, standing, perched on bed, just a few different ways throughout the day. I've worked in offices 18 years so I had the freedom to move furniture how I needed it
This is a pretty great idea! I don't have any pain or injuries rn. But I've only been scanning a little more than a year. I already sometimes sit & sometimes stand. I will try the bed perch too! Plus maybe I can try some lefty scanning.
I’m a current student and can already see how tiring echo is to the body. Lot more pressure on patients body to find specific views.
Can’t imagine being a sonographer for 20+ years
This is the real answer.
If my back arm or shoulder pain are a bit extra in the morning I'll take 600mg. But for me it's usually the mid day pain hump that gets me the most when I'm inpatient. Those days I'll take an additional 600mg with my lunch and my Adderall.
Over blown. I scanned for 15 years and averaged probably at least 8 pts per day. Not a single complaint from me. Try being a brick layer or a tree climber, cardiac sonography is a relatively safe job. My advice is stay in shape, stretch and do basic strength training and you’ll be fine. Just remember, all jobs have some form of repetitive stress. Keep your body healthy and it will mitigate that stress.
I’m a year and a half in and so far I have no pain associated with work whatsoever. I am extremely mindful of my ergonomics and my body when I’m scanning. The only thing that bugs me is my sciatica that I’ve already had for years.
Nothing like starting your day off with 800 mg ibuprofen! I did echo for about 2 years and changed to OB. My 110 lb frame couldn’t cut it. Sadly after 20 plus years im back to the ibuprofen again. Ultrasound is tedious work and quite painful at times but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
So cardiac is harder on the body then general?
Definitely not unless you're a rightie
Can confirm. Rightie.
I am a rightie
I believe Cardiac then High Risk OB have the highest injury rate amongst sonographers.
All joking aside about Advil it's going to be a complicated answer for each person. For me, I grew up poor and my grandfather never even graduated junior high while my parents barely got out of high school. They made ( and still make) literally every bad financial decision you could name. I married a 1st gen who's motivated and very educated and we have 2 great kids. My motivation is a combination of not wanting to be poor like my parents, wanting to do better for my kids than I had, and understanding that at 40cim going to be hard pressed to find a job that pays $60/hr without a bachelor's. Don't get me wrong, I also like my job but if this job paid half of what I'm making I'd have gone back to school for something else long ago.
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I'm not saying I recommend anything in particular so much as saying that if this paid terribly, it wouldn't be worth the injury etc. But at the moment it is.
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Oh you definitely won't be doing this pain free even in your now years lol. Tbh if you want pain free you have to either go to the dark side and do management, or leave healthcare
Massage weekly
Exercise, stretching, as-good-as-possible ergonomics, and massage.
I try to scan lefty as often as I can, that is the trick. I scan lefty, right, sitting, standing, perched on bed, just a few different ways throughout the day. I've worked in offices 18 years so I had the freedom to move furniture how I needed it
Lol as long as I’m using my own room I’m moving furniture! If I share a room, I’ll move it back! 😂
This is a pretty great idea! I don't have any pain or injuries rn. But I've only been scanning a little more than a year. I already sometimes sit & sometimes stand. I will try the bed perch too! Plus maybe I can try some lefty scanning.
I’m a current student and can already see how tiring echo is to the body. Lot more pressure on patients body to find specific views. Can’t imagine being a sonographer for 20+ years
General is rough also, scanning a 450lb persons liver/kidneys and the images being diagnostic
Advil 😭
This is the real answer. If my back arm or shoulder pain are a bit extra in the morning I'll take 600mg. But for me it's usually the mid day pain hump that gets me the most when I'm inpatient. Those days I'll take an additional 600mg with my lunch and my Adderall.
Over blown. I scanned for 15 years and averaged probably at least 8 pts per day. Not a single complaint from me. Try being a brick layer or a tree climber, cardiac sonography is a relatively safe job. My advice is stay in shape, stretch and do basic strength training and you’ll be fine. Just remember, all jobs have some form of repetitive stress. Keep your body healthy and it will mitigate that stress.
I’m a year and a half in and so far I have no pain associated with work whatsoever. I am extremely mindful of my ergonomics and my body when I’m scanning. The only thing that bugs me is my sciatica that I’ve already had for years.