Patient Positioning
Patient seated in front of the examiner, hand palm down resting on a examination table.
Probe Positioning
Place the transducer on longitudinal planes over the joints and digits of interest. Do not use any pressure – especially while looking for effusion or using doppler mode.
DIJ: distal interphalangeal joint
patient with osteoarthritis of the DIJs and ganglion cyst / mucoid cyst generating from the arthrotic joint