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Dr. Nortin Hadler |
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A rheumatologist and
professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Nortin Hadler
has been known to rigorously examine the statistics generated by his medical
colleagues’ practices. He arrives at startling conclusions about their
effectiveness.
Dr. Nortin Hadler is also credited for leading a complete re-thinking about
the treatment of back pain, which he finds excessive. He wrote an editorial
accompanying a landmark study in The Journal of the American Medical
Association two years ago. He suggested that the benefits of surgery for
back pain are overrated.
In his book entitled The Last Well Person: How To Stay Well despite The
Health Care System, Dr. Nortin Hadler took his case about cardiac care and
other health issues to the public. He has also taken on heart treatment,
testifying before the Congress and the Social Security Advisory Board and
publishing papers arguing the very little data back up the value of modern
treatments such as bypass surgery and angioplasty.
Aside from all of those who believe differently, Dr. Nortin Hadler is also
recognized as one of those who strongly oppose other doctors’ claims that
repetitive stress injuries are brought about by the use of computer
keyboards. This is because, according to them, people spend many hours in
the same position doing the same task without breaks or variation, giving no
time for stressed tissues to recover. Over a long period, such behavior is
thought to induce crippling changes in the sensitive areas of both the wrist
and hand.
The New York Times has run several articles regarding the subject. There
were high rates of injury reported among data of entry workers, telephone
operators and media reporters who do a lot of tapping on the computer
keyboard for many hours.
The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons estimated in 1984 that the
problem cost the nation more than $27 billion a year in lost wages and
medical care. It is an amount that could well have doubled at present since
there has been more than a doubling in reported cases.
Repetitive stress injury has been dubbed by Dr. Marvin Dainoff, a
psychologist of the Center for Ergonomic Research at Miami Univeristy in
Ohio, as the “occupational disease of the 1990’s.” So it is with Dr. Laura
Punnett, an ergonomist and epidemiologist at the University of
Massachusetts, said that “many workers did not realize that the problem as
being job related.”
All those words from fellow practitioners in the medical field urged Dr.
Nortin Hadler to dispute whether the problem is real. He then stated that
musculoskeletal activity that is "reasonable, comfortable and customary and
which can be repeated without undue distress," such as typing on a computer,
is unlikely to result in tissue damage. |
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