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Ergonomics / Working-Pain

Are You Ignoring Your Working Pain? 3 Main Issues Facing Clinicians Today

ErgoPractice News – May 2018 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com SurgiTel’s mission has always been to provide clinicians with ergonomically designed vision aid products that help them work with comfortable working postures and thus prevent pain in the neck, upper back, lower back, and shoulders. At the recent 2018 Townie Meeting, SurgiTel was invited to […]

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Ergonomics / Working-Pain

MultiPoint Ergonomics™ Loupes: Prevent BOTH Back and Neck Pain

ErgoPractice News – January 2018 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com As a result of ergonomic education, a majority of clinicians today are recognizing the importance of a neutral working posture to prevent work-related pain and injuries. Although loupes have been recommended as an ergonomic solution to help clinicians work with improved postures, many loupes still […]

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Ergonomics / Working-Pain

How to Determine Magnification Power of Backup or Replacement Loupes

ErgoPractice News – November 2017 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Recently we received a question from a customer concerned about his new pair of loupes. He had been working with 3.5x magnification for many years and ordered replacement 3.5x magnification loupes. After receiving his new loupes he was surprised to find the magnification power seemed […]

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Ergonomics / Working-Pain

Can Loupes Help Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders?

ErgoPractice News – September 2017 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Oral health professionals, surgeons, and veterinarians spend their careers focused on the health of their patients. And all too often they neglect their own health in the process. Clinicians in these fields experience abnormally high rates of musculoskeletal disorders.1, 2 SurgiTel was founded 25+ years […]

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Multiple Magnification Loupes: 1987 to Today

ErgoPractice News – August 2017 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com How Various Past Designs Led to the Development of SurgiTel’s Multisight Loupe System   Innovation & SurgiTel Innovation has always been important to SurgiTel. Throughout our 25+ year history, we were the first to design and build many never-before-seen products. Some of our first patents […]

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Ergonomics / Working-Pain

Verify Declination Angle Claims!

ErgoPractice News – December 2016 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com It has long been understood loupes with a steeper declination angle (DA) help clinicians achieve an upright, neutral posture that alleviates neck strain, pain, and injury.1 If the DA of loupes become larger, the user declines their eyes instead of their heads and thus can […]

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Ergonomics / Working-Pain

Many Clinicians Needlessly Work with Neck Pain

ErgoPractice News – November 2016 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com How Non-Ergonomic Loupes Have Caused an Epidemic and How You Can Help Stop It! Aches and pains are hindering the quality of life. Many surgeons (92.3%) report work-related pains and about 20% of those surgeons eventually resort to surgery for treatment.1 Dentist and veterinarians are […]

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Loupes

Laser Protection Options for Loupes

ErgoPractice News – October 2016 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Removable Laser Protection Provides Clinicians With Flexible Options for Laser Protection The eye focuses visible and near-infrared light onto the retina and thus a direct laser beam can be focused intensely on the retina which may be up to 200,000 times higher than at the […]

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Loupes

3 Uses of SurgiTel Working Distance Caps

ErgoPractice News – September 2016 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Use SurgiTel’s Unique Working Distance Cap System to Adapt Your Loupes to Your Work SurgiTel has developed and patented a technology for easily adjusting working distance by using “Working Distance Caps.” These caps are used on both our Galilean and prismatic loupes (Figure 1) to […]

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