Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Deimel, George W.; Jelsing, Elena J.; Hall, Mederic M.

doi:10.1007/s40141-012-0003-9

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“…Ultrasound is an ideal musculoskeletal imaging modality in the outpatient setting due to its high resolution, non-invasive nature, low cost, and ready availability [40]. Traditionally considered a diagnostic tool, advances in technology have led to new applications with potential to guide loading prescription during rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries [41].…”

Section: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound In Soft Tissue Injurymentioning

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How New Technology Is Improving Physical Therapy

Owens¹,

Rauzi

Kittelson

et al. 2020

Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med

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Purpose of Review As rehabilitation patient volume across the age spectrum increases and reimbursement rates decrease, clinicians are forced to produce favorable outcomes with limited resources and time. The purpose of this review is to highlight new technologies being utilized to improve standardization and outcomes for patients rehabilitating orthopedic injuries ranging from sports medicine to trauma to joint arthroplasty. Recent Findings A proliferation of new technologies in rehabilitation has recently occurred with the hope of improved outcomes, better patient compliance and safety, and return to athletic performance. These include technologies applied directly to the patient such as exoskeletons and instrumented insoles to extrinsic applications such as biofeedback and personalized reference charts. Well-structured randomized trials are ongoing centered around the efficacy and safety of these new technologies to help guide clinical necessity and appropriate application. Summary We present a range of new technologies that may assist a diverse population of orthopedic conditions. Many of these interventions are already supported by level 1 evidence and appear safe and feasible for most clinical settings.

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Section: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound In Soft Tissue Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

How New Technology Is Improving Physical Therapy

Owens¹,

Rauzi

Kittelson

et al. 2020

Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med

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“…Physiatrists have often relied on expensive, inconvenient imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging to diagnose and confirm a neuromusculoskeletal condition. 8 The use of ultrasound offers a promising alternative that reduces cost, saves time, and avoids unnecessary radiation exposure. 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 Furthermore, it offers the ability to compare abnormal pathology to normal pathology on the patient’s contralateral side.…”

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Education in the Time of COVID: At-a-Distance Training in Neuromusculoskeletal Ultrasonography

Cook

Inkpen

2021

Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation

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Point of care ultrasound is important to the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of neuromusculoskeletal conditions commonly seen in practice. However, across Canada, resident education of sonoanatomy skills is variable. There remain no standards in terms of how ultrasound is taught as part of the residency curriculum as set by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As such, residents are often required to find their own educational opportunities. This report describes an alternative approach to learning these skills that was inspired by disruption due to coronavirus disease 2019 in first year residency. This report explores how a PM&R resident was able to develop valuable ultrasound skills from home using not only textbooks and videos, but also new and novel teleguidance technology, namely an ultrasound probe that connects to a clinician’s own smart devices to display images.

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“…Demand is increasing for clinical applications of musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound, particularly for rehabilitative applications [20][21][22] . MSK US shows significant promise as a means to image and collect quantitative data of an individual's limb and demonstrates distinct advantages as compared to X-rays, CT and MRI.…”

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Enhanced ultrasound for advanced diagnostics, ultrasound tomography for volume limb imaging and prosthetic fitting

Anthony

2016

SPIE Proceedings

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Ultrasound imaging methods hold the potential to deliver low-cost, high-resolution, operator-independent and nonionizing imaging systems -such systems couple appropriate algorithms with imaging devices and techniques. The increasing demands on general practitioners motivate us to develop more usable and productive diagnostic imaging equipment. Ultrasound, specifically freehand ultrasound, is a low cost and safe medical imaging technique. It doesn't expose a patient to ionizing radiation. Its safety and versatility make it very well suited for the increasing demands on general practitioners, or for providing improved medical care in rural regions or the developing world. However it typically suffers from sonographer variability; we will discuss techniques to address user variability.We also discuss our work to combine cylindrical scanning systems with state of the art inversion algorithms to deliver ultrasound systems for imaging and quantifying limbs in 3-D in vivo. Such systems have the potential to track the progression of limb health at a low cost and without radiation exposure, as well as, improve prosthetic socket fitting. Current methods of prosthetic socket fabrication remain subjective and ineffective at creating an interface to the human body that is both comfortable and functional. Though there has been recent success using methods like magnetic resonance imaging and biomechanical modeling, a low-cost, streamlined, and quantitative process for prosthetic cup design and fabrication has not been fully demonstrated. Medical ultrasonography may inform the design process of prosthetic sockets in a more objective manner. This keynote talk presents the results of progress in this area.

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Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Cited by 10 publications

References 99 publications

How New Technology Is Improving Physical Therapy

How New Technology Is Improving Physical Therapy

Education in the Time of COVID: At-a-Distance Training in Neuromusculoskeletal Ultrasonography

Enhanced ultrasound for advanced diagnostics, ultrasound tomography for volume limb imaging and prosthetic fitting

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