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b"I speak with a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (Ben Pollock) and a Physio-turned-Dentist (Samuel Cope) about back pain and Dentistry - I was left SHOCKED about the relationship (or lack of!) between bad posture and having pain as a Dentist, Therapist or Nurse.\\n\\n\\n\\nNeed to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!\\n\\n\\n\\nProtrusive Dental Pearl: check out my favourite (non-dental) books (my reading list) for self-development, social sciences and personal finance.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sdALEGp80\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHow can we prevent back pain becoming a problem for our professionAdvice for dental professionals suffering from back painWill saddle chairs work? Does magnification really help your back? (this one was surprising, too\\u2026)Back pain myths debunked - is there a role for massage? Pilates? Mobilisation and manipulation? Acupuncture?How to know if your Physiotherapist is evidence based?What can we do AT WORK to help our backs?Are you moving around while doing your Dentistry? Shout out to @Ian Dunn at 34 minutesIs stretching good for back pain?What relation does stress have with your back?I somehow manage to bring occlusion in this one\\u2026sorry not sorry!We draw parallels between the Physio world and Dental world\\n\\n\\n\\nIf people want regular updates on back and neck pain in dentistry they should follow:\\n\\n\\n\\nTwitter: @Toothphysio and @Ben_FYS\\n\\n\\n\\nInstagram: thetoothphysio\\n\\n\\n\\nIf you are looking for an evidenced based physiotherapist in your local area then find followers of @MSK-Reform on twitter and see if any of them can help.\\n\\n\\n\\nMessage from Sam and Ben:\\n\\n\\n\\nWe will also be starting a novel neck and back pain musculoskeletal pain programme later on in the year that will be advertised through the Toothphysio on twitter and Instagram.\\n\\n\\n\\nThis will include dental specific:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xb7 Education on prevention\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xb7 Management of neck and lower back pain\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xb7 How to manage colleagues with back and neck pain\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xb7 How to cope with acute back and neck pain and how to overcome it with pain relieving strategies\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xb7 Case studies\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xb7 Exercise class\\n\\n\\n\\nThe course will be run by Sam and Ben, two qualified musculoskeletal specialist physiotherapists who will guide participants though exercises and education.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nClick below for full episode transcript:\\n\\n\\n\\nOpening Snippet: What do dentists, hygienists, therapists and nurses need to do to make sure we don't end up retiring with or due to back problems? Yeah, tell us tell us Ben about posture. So have we as a dental industry overplay the role of posture?...\\n\\n\\n\\n[Ben]Most definitely. If there's one thing to take from this podcast, is that\\n\\n\\n\\n[Jaz]Surely being like this, like surely just like, you know, you when you see those photos on people on Phantom head courses, and they're like, they're like this, and they're like, polishing something. And they're like that. I mean, granted, we won't be probably not like that for longer than a couple of minutes at a time, you know, when you're doing the distal lingual of a six or a seven. And you just have to do it. I think after listening to today, and listen to you guys, I'm gonna feel less guilty about doing that. And I'm just gonna just move along afterwards.\\n\\n\\n\\nJaz's Introduction: Hi, guys, it's Jaz, again. I want to ask you a question. How much money do we spend as a profession, on our practices, on our chairs, on the service and maintenance of our equipment, on scanners, hand pieces, and generally just making sure that we have our favorite kit available? What is the most valuable piece of equipment, or maybe not equipment, but most valuable asset in your practice? It is your health, your hands, your mental health, your physical health. And of course, when you consider that 94% of dentists will retire with backache. And apparently 100% of nurses will retire with backache, it makes you really wonder about our priorities do we actually look after our health as much as we should be? And combine that with a stressful position with a sort of confined envir..."