Patient Positioning
Patient seated in front of the examiner, hand palm up resting on a examination table.
Probe Positioning
Place the transducer on a longitudinal planes over the joints and tendons of interest. Do not use any pressure – especially while looking for effusion or using doppler mode. Use dynamic scanning to check the movement of the tendons during flexion / extension.
Note: patient with secondary carpal tunnel syndrome due to massive exsudative tenosynovitis of the flexor tendons with sampling of CPPD crystals.