Patient Positioning
Patient seated in front of the examiner, hand palm down resting on a examination table.
Probe Positioning
Place the transducer on transverse planes over the joints and digits of interest. Perform the injection in plane or out of plane from lateral.
note: ultrasound guided infiltration of the proximal interphalangeal joint in plane with a 27G needle and the linear hockey stick probe.
note: ultrasound guided infiltration of the distal interphalangeal joint of the thumb in a patient with cppd arthropathy in plane with a 27G needle and the linear hockey stick probe.
note: ultrasound guided infiltration of the proximal interphalangeal joint in plane
note: ultrasound guided infiltration of the proximal interphalangeal joint in plane in a patient with PsA.
note: injection out of plane in a patient with degenerative osteoparthritis