Claim of McCrocklin v. Bernstein

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed August 8, 1974. While claimant was assisting her employer, an oral surgeon, she experienced pain in her lower back as the result of bending over a patient while surgery was being performed. The pain became more intense during that day, particularly when she was required to hold a *988patient’s head to restrain its movement. The next day she was unable to straighten her back and was hospitalized for a myelogram which disclosed disc involvement. A laminectomy was thereafter performed. The employer and its insurance carrier controvert…