Pain and injuries from improper or frequent mask wearing and working from home in less-than-ideal workspaces are on the rise. Physicians and therapists weigh in on what we can do about it.

“Eat, sleep, take time off, what doctor does that?” he said. “These are the things we tell our patients to do, but don’t always follow ourselves. In the past, the tradition was if you were not working 25 hours a day, you weren't dedicated. That’s slowly changing.”

So far, there has not been a significant spread of COVID-19 through sports, according to Zlotnick. But asymptomatic carriers are the biggest spreaders, he said, and young people involved in high contact sports could unknowingly be carriers, spreading the virus to other athletes who then go home and expose their families to it

For most health care workers, a certain amount of risk, including from the coronavirus, is considered part of the job.

Dr. Jeffery Zlotnick, a physician with Penn State Health St. Joseph in Reading, is a pioneer of concussion treatment. Inspired to study and treat concussions by the tragic death of a student athlete, he began studying sports-related head injuries long before others.

Health care consumers are turning more and more to urgent care centers rather than traditional primary care offices. Patients are rushing to these walk-in centers, which offer medical care for minor emergencies and illnesses at a fraction of the cost of the traditional emergency room. LVB explores why.

Health care professionals interviewed by Lehigh Valley Business feel awareness of the risk of workplace violence in the health care arena is lacking. And they believe that training in how to handle workplace assaults needs to be a bigger part of the health care landscape.