Dr. Park featured on Surgical Ergonomics podcast
Dr. Hannah Park was recently featured on the Surgical Ergonomics podcast, which focuses on reducing injury and integrating ergonomics into the clinical and surgical practice setting, for physical longevity.
Unfortunately, it is common for surgeons and proceduralist physicians to suffer from ongoing neck, shoulder, jaw, or headache pain — often without knowing the real cause.
In this episode, Dr. Geeta Lal — endocrine surgeon and founder of Surgical Ergonomics — sits down with Dr. Hannah Park— headache neurologist, founder of Park Your Headache, and former aspiring concert pianist whose musical career was cut short by repetitive strain injuries, migraine, and myofascial pain. This personal challenge set Dr. Park on her own path to becoming a proceduralist physician specializing in treating chronic pain with injections.
They discuss the struggle for patients to receive accurate diagnoses, how imaging is often unrevealing despite severe symptoms, and how trigger points, referred pain, and muscle compensation patterns can transform treatment.
Whether you're a surgeon, proceduralist physician, or someone outside of healthcare living with chronic pain, this conversation will help you understand:
Dr. Park’s journey from migraine sufferer to migraine specialist
Why myofascial pain is frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed
How repetitive strain and sustained postures create chronic pain
Why trigger points can produce pain far away from their actual location
The relationship between headaches, neck pain, jaw pain, and trapezius muscle dysfunction
Why unremarkable imaging doesn't rule out debilitating pain
The importance of finding clinicians with specialized expertise in headache medicine and myofascial pain
How injection therapies fit into a comprehensive treatment approach
Why chronic pain develops over years—and why recovery also requires patience
Shared injury types between musicians, surgeons, and other high-performance professionals
You can listen to the episode on Spotify using the embedded player or link above, or find it on your podcast app of choice:
