About DeskDoctor
Built by a clinician.
For the people in pain.
DeskDoctor exists because desk-related pain is preventable — and most people are buying the wrong equipment to fix it. The free Pain-Free Desk Assessment is how we close that gap.
15+ years in orthopedic medicine and occupational ergonomics
The core of DeskDoctor
The Pain-Free Desk Assessment
Every recommendation, every product score, every guide on this site exists to support one thing: the free Pain-Free Desk Assessment. It's a clinical evaluation of your workspace — the same evaluation I'd conduct in person, translated into a self-guided format you complete from your desk.
It is not a lead-gen quiz. There is no upsell wall, no "premium tier," no marketing list resale. You complete it, and a personalized report identifying what's causing your pain and exactly what to change is sent to your email.
- A pain matrix mapping your specific symptoms by frequency and intensity
- Chair, desk, monitor, keyboard, mouse, lighting, and movement evaluation
- Anthropometric matching of equipment to your height, weight, build, and hand size
- An 8-movement clinical screen used to identify hidden mobility deficits
- A personalized report with risk scoring, setup changes, and equipment recommendations
The person behind the assessment
15+ years. Multiple industries.
One mission.
I'm AJ — a Healthcare Ergonomic Assessment Specialist (HEAS) with over 15 years in orthopedic medicine and occupational ergonomics. My career started on the clinical side of musculoskeletal injury, working in orthopedic medicine and building a working understanding of how the human body breaks down under repeated mechanical stress.
From there I moved into the field — conducting workstation assessments, developing ergonomic programs, and watching the same preventable injuries happen again and again across every industry I entered. The warehouse worker with the blown-out back. The healthcare professional with chronic neck pain. The office worker who bought three chairs trying to fix their sciatica and was still in pain.
The common thread was never the person. It was the equipment — and the absence of clinical guidance when they went to buy it.
I've worked across warehousing, manufacturing, and healthcare — some of the highest-injury industries in the United States. I've conducted assessments for major corporations and government organizations, contributed to field best practices through case study and tool development, and built assessment software used across occupational settings. Every one of the 1,000+ assessments I conduct each year at Loma Linda University Health informs what's in the free assessment on this site.
DeskDoctor is the clinical guidance that should exist everywhere but doesn't. The assessment is how I deliver it at scale.
Organizations served
Tested across the real world.
The clinical knowledge behind the DeskDoctor assessment wasn't built in a lab — it was built on the floor of warehouses, in hospital units, and across corporate campuses. Every organization I've served has sharpened my ability to identify what works, what fails, and what the research actually supports when put into practice.
Industries & settings
Contributions to the field
The problem DeskDoctor is solving
Desk pain is an epidemic.
And it's almost entirely preventable.
These aren't abstract statistics. They're the people I see in assessments every day — workers in pain from equipment problems that have clinical solutions. The data below is why the free assessment exists.
The clinical reality
This pain is preventable.
Not inevitable.
The research is unambiguous: the majority of work-related musculoskeletal disorders are directly attributable to ergonomic risk factors that equipment can address. The problem isn't that the solutions don't exist — it's that most people don't know which equipment actually addresses their specific clinical problem, and most review sites don't have the clinical background to tell them.
That gap is what the free Pain-Free Desk Assessment was built to close.