Jim Collins CPC CCC

FREE OrthoVest prototypes available for facilities with lots of women: contact us at MyOrthoVest.com to apply - we need: feedback from many women in a short period - first prototype will be sent 3/20/26, two more the following week.

🧵 5/5 The good news? Solutions exist—like OrthoVest, a game-changing exoskeleton worn under your lead apron that transfers 100% of the weight from shoulders/neck/spine to your hips. The OrthoVest’s patented design eliminates the lever effect causing chronic pain, stiff necks, back issues, and fatigue—while keeping full mobility for bending/reaching. Works with any apron, quick on/off, creates an air gap to cut sweating. Trusted by interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, cath lab nurses/techs, fluoroscopy staff, orthopedic surgeons, spinal surgeons, radiologic technologists, medical device sales reps, urologists, pain management specialists, and all who wear lead for long shifts. Check it out and protect your future self: myorthovest.com What steps are you taking? Let’s discuss! #Ergonomics #RadiationSafety

🧵 4/5 Finally: Hout's 2025 systematic review/meta-analysis (Jan 2025) pools 31 studies, 8,280 participants—lead apron users are 3.8x more likely to develop musculoskeletal disorders (OR 3.83). Over 4,500 pain cases, hitting lower back, shoulders, neck hardest. Aprons (~7kg) spike disc pressure to 2,000 kPa, accelerating degeneration and fatigue. Global epidemic—calls for ergonomics and alternatives loud and clear! #MSDPrevention

🧵 1/5 HEY!! THIS IS FUTURE YOU CALLING FROM 2040. (If you ever suit up in a lead apron for work) There’s an alarming 89% chance your current routine—without changes—will leave me with chronic back/neck pain, limited mobility, and robbed joy in what I love doing. Don’t let that happen. These three ultra-recent 2025-2026 studies are wake-up calls. Let’s fix this now and save future us! #LeadApronHazards #OccupationalHealth

OrthoVest breaks the lever effect before it breaks you. No risk. Try it. 🔗 myOrthoVest.com #CathLab #InterventionalRadiology #LeadApron #SpineHealth #epeeps #MedicalDeviceRep #OrthoVest

This isn’t soreness. It’s a slow career injury hiding behind a 10 lb apron. You want to be playing pickleball at 65 — not checkers.

Lower back pain after a procedure? Your lead apron probably did that. 🧵

A 10 pound lead apron can put more than 100 pounds of pressure on the delicate structures of your lower back…. It likely causes fatigue and aches today and may require discectomy and spinal fusion when you’re ready to retire. You can stop the damage - MyOrthoVest.com

@girishviswa @mmamas1973 @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @AjayKirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @adityadoc1 @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult New & improved model, OrthoVest Focus now available MyOrthovest.com

@mmamas1973 @CardiologyCoder @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @ajaykirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @adityadoc1 @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult Cool stuff. Wanna try

1. Thank you to @CardiologyCoder for sending me his #Orthovest to try out. This is such a cool device, lifts lead off shoulders so it doesn’t feel you are wearing one. Transfers weight to hip. @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @ajaykirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB

@adityadoc1 @mmamas1973 @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @AjayKirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult Liberate your back at MyOrthoVest.com

@mmamas1973 @CardiologyCoder @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @ajaykirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult This is very cool! I agree, it should be built into the lead. Now since I have seen it, I can’t believe it took so long for someone to build this!

@heartdoc45 @mmamas1973 @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @AjayKirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @adityadoc1 @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult @LouisSalvaggio Our new model, OrthoVest Focus is now available. Minor design improvements like less material below the belt and wider landing points for apron on top of shoulders. Imagine - no weight on your back during procedures. MyOrthoVest.com

@mmamas1973 @CardiologyCoder @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @ajaykirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @adityadoc1 @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult @LouisSalvaggio this looks like something you need yesterday. 😀

@drmkmittal @mmamas1973 @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @AjayKirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @adityadoc1 @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult We’ve got a new model an 20% off small bulk orders. MyOrthoVest.com

@mmamas1973 @CardiologyCoder @DrMauricioCohen @rajivxgulati @ShariqShamimMD @ajaykirtane @cardioPCImom @ShrillaB @DocSavageTJU @fischman_david @SVRaoMD @cghanratty @AntoniousAttall @adityadoc1 @drsonyaburgess @GreggWStone @DFCapodanno @CardiacConsult 🤔 I’m going to try that.

@GreggKhodorov @_backtable @BruceZwiebel Hi @_backtable - I’d love to contribute to your impactful discussions. I created a device that removes the thing that directly causes chronic musculoskeletal pain for 80% of cath lab staff.

@_backtable Would love to hear from founders of solutions like Orthovest or @BruceZwiebel and his StemRad system!

Planning on an episode to discuss Neck Health and Ergonomics in the Lab/OR. Please reply or DM us with any recommended guests and questions. Thanks!!