The purpose of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for the Upper Extremity is to obtain knowledge and clinical skills necessary to visualize joints and associated muscles and tendons by obtaining good imaging and effectively make decisions on treatment, or referral to appropriate knowledgeable provider.  Providing real-time visual feedback on the condition of anatomical structures significantly increases patient engagement.  This 16 -hour applied-learning course combines live demonstrations and practical hands-on labs. Students participate in small groups of 2 or 3 to practice achieving reliable and reproducible images, which will be evaluated by the instructor with individual feedback provided.   Supervised lab sessions are performed to effectively get the best image of targeted structure possible, identify structures in the image and be able to describe and label the image from the bone up to the skin.

This course is designed for licensed healthcare professionals, PT’s, OT’s, DC’s, M.D.’s, D.O.’s. PA’s, ATC’s and APRN’s that specialize in treating MSK pain can benefit and easily implement the information into their clinical practice.

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1. Demonstrate the application of the 5 P’s of MSK ultrasound in a given case study.
2. Demonstrate how to properly utilize knobology to get an optimal image utilizing proper parameters depth, focus, gain, freeze, save images, save video clips.
3. Demonstrate and produce images practicing scanning protocol for the shoulder, elbow wrist and hand during lab sessions.
4. Demonstrate and identify the normal sonographic anatomy of the shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist joint, tendon, ligament, nerve and other soft tissue structures.
5. Identify normal vs. variants verse pathologic anatomy of the shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist joint, tendon, ligament, nerve and other soft tissue structures.
6. Demonstrate how to properly obtain, label, and describe short axis and long axis images of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand.

Prerequisite-no prior MSK Ultrasound training or experience is required to attend.