Video-based training to prevent injury is an effective but underused means of reducing ergonomic injuries among endoscopists, new research suggests.
According to a study presented at the 2016 Digestive Disease Week (abstract Sa1228), the prevalence of musculoskeletal injury among endoscopists is high, with some surveys putting the incidence at nearly 90%.
Harry Aslanian, MD, director of the advanced endoscopy fellowship and associate director of endoscopy at Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven,