The last specialist I saw regarding my TMJ, sm
Posted By: TMJr on 2006-05-30
In Reply to: I am so with you! (sm) - Jill in WA
suggested that if I didn't proceed with the recommended surgery and braces, to simply hook my thumbs under my mandible and pull my jaw forward and hold it there for a few seconds. I found this helps more than anything else I've tried, and it's cheap, too.
As for neck and back, my physical therapist suggested raising and lowering the typing chair several times a day to prevent a "freezing posture" which is what causes our pain. He also suggested getting up and moving around every hour.
During my break, I find it very therapeutic to go outside and pull weeds. This dissolves any aggressions I had with difficult, clueless dictators, uses different muscles, and makes my yard look better.
My eye doc suggested to frequently gaze at a distant object during the course of the day to prevent eyestrain.
Another great exercise for the shoulders is to clasp your hands behind your back and just rest there a few seconds. Repeat each time you feel strain coming. This helps a lot, too!
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OP Specialist
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I 100% agree with the ES Specialist...
If the pretyped text document one receives on the computer is full of mistakes, it is diffult and takes a lot of time to correct it. Confusing, I would say.
If it does not contain errors, it's a breeze!
But usually it has a lot of errors, whole sentences that do not belong there and are not included in the voice file.
Medical Language Specialist
That is our title, Medical Language Specialist, which really throws people. When asked to define what that is, tell them you translate medical dictation to document form, be it hard copy document or electronic docment, to provide pertinent medical information for patients, physicians and hospital staff. See their reaction. 
Of course when they say "all you do is type," ask them to spell esophagogastroduodenoscopy as an example of the terminology you use. That usually shuts them up. (Smile)
I worked for an infectious disease specialist sm
who was asked his opinion on someone suing a company because he caught pneumonia from being cold, then hot. This specialist said you cannot catch cold or any other illness from temperature, just from a bug. A person could get hypothermic and then get ill, but it would have to be in extreme cases. Here, it was 20 degrees on Monday and Tuesday, and yesterday 81, and today 62. I'm staying away from people who are coughing and sneezing. Temperature changes have nothing to do with illness.
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he was horrible. i scrubbed for him too, and when he dictated, he tried to do good but in surgery, he was horrible!
have always considered myself transcriptionist 'ist' is a specialist. nm
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Just stating, "I'm a medical language specialist" usually stumps them (nm)
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I would say a GI is the correct specialist and keep switching until you find one who helps you. So
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