Katrina Klein
ErgoFitLife
Sacramento, California, United States
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Katrina Klein is a practicing Registered Dental Hygienist since 2007. She is an international speaker, author, competitive bodybuilder, certified personal trainer, certified ergonomics assessment specialist and biomechanics nerd. She is the founder of ErgoFitLife, where ergonomics and fitness are a lifestyle. She takes pride in teaching dental professionals how to prevent, reduce and/or eliminate pain.
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It's All About the Angles: Magnification in Dentistry
Magnification is one of the most influential factors affecting clinician posture, visual access, and long-term musculoskeletal health. Yet many dental clinicians continue to experience neck, shoulder, and back pain despite wearing loupes. This course explores the relationship between magnification, posture, visual ergonomics, and clinical performance. Attendees will learn how key design characteristics influence working posture, visual clarity, and physical strain, while gaining practical strategies for evaluating magnification systems through an ergonomic lens. Participants will leave with evidence-based principles for improving visual access, reducing musculoskeletal stress, and supporting career longevity in clinical practice.
Hand Bone's Connected to the Neck Bones - Scaling Meets Biomechanics
The sharpest instrument is only as effective as the clinician using it for calculus removal and clinician fatigue. This course explores the relationship between instrumentation, biomechanics, and clinical performance to help scale more efficiently with less physical strain. Participants will discover how instrument design, handle characteristics, pinch force, fulcrum stability, adaptation, patient positioning, and operator mechanics.
Eyes, Ears, and Explanations! Hygiene Assessments for Case Acceptance
Dental hygienists are uniquely positioned to influence comprehensive patient care. This course explores how thorough assessments, active listening, and thoughtful communication can transform routine appointments into powerful moments of advocacy and education. Learn to leverage your clinical observations and patient interactions to support whole-person care, enhance treatment acceptance, and elevate your role within the practice—simply by saying what you see, hear, and know. No pressure. No pitch. Just purposeful prevention.
Ergonomics In Dentistry - Protect Your Money Maker!
Working in dentistry doesn't have to hurt! Stop the aches and pains commonly associated with the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene. Protect your physical health with the use of ergonomic equipment, practical ergonomic strategies, and posture enhancing exercises with dental specific stretches to reduce workplace pain. Experience this highly interactive program practicing chairside stretches to establish a mind muscle connection for use in a daily release of chronically tight muscles.
Chew on This! Metabolic Nutrition 101
Dental professionals routinely encounter patients affected by metabolic dysfunction, often before a formal diagnosis has been made. From delayed healing and chronic inflammation to periodontal disease and diabetes, nutrition plays a significant role in both oral and systemic health.
This course provides an evidence-based introduction to metabolic health, common metabolic disorders, and the nutritional principles that support disease prevention and improved health outcomes.
Food is more than fuel—it is information that influences energy, resilience, and long-term health. This course simplifies the science of metabolic nutrition without eliminating the pleasure of eating.
Beyond Instrumentation: Intro to Desiccation Therapy
Periodontal therapy has traditionally focused heavily on mechanical disruption and removal of calculus—but there is more than deposits within the periodontal pocket. This course introduces desiccation therapy as an adjunctive approach to periodontal care and explores its effects on inflamed pocket tissue, biofilm, and the periodontal environment. Participants will examine the science behind topical desiccation, appropriate clinical applications, and how to incorporate it alongside conventional periodontal instrumentation to support tissue health and treatment outcomes.
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