Case Studies
How to tendinopathy 3: using the ultrasound report
A guide to using the findings in an ultrasound report indicating tendinopathy. In the previous two posts we have talked about the continuum model of tendinopathy according to Jill Cook’s research group. The idea that tendinopathy is a process of injury, the...
How to tendinopathy: 2
Ultrasound in the clinical picture of tendinopathy: guiding management decisions. In the previous post, we left you with the idea that ultrasound imaging can visualise the stages of the tendon continuum according to Cook et al.,1,2 and that management of tendon...
How to tendinopathy: 1
About tendon injury. Tendinosis is tendinitis that can’t be proven to be associated with inflammation, but tendinitis is. Or maybe tendinosis might be failed repair of a previously inflamed tendon, so might be tendinitis then not tendinitis. Also, tendinosis...
The ankle 3: consider the foot?
Ankle or foot: consider both? An 18-year-old man presented having injured his left ankle approximately four days earlier. He required a wheelchair for two days, and was using crutches after that. In addition to obvious pain on weightbearing, he also had...
The ankle 2: medial and lateral pain
Ankle injury: normal findings are still helpful. A 27-year-old woman presented having suffered an injury to her left ankle. Approximately a week earlier she had been out running and had hurt her ankle, which was tender both medially and laterally. An X-ray did...
The ankle 1: inversion injury
Ankle inversion injury: includes the lateral ligaments. A 19-year-old woman presented having suffered an injury to her left ankle. Two-weeks earlier she had tripped on a medicine ball and forcefully inverted her ankle. An X-ray at ED taken on the day of the...
News
AUT Ultrasound Imaging Post Graduate Paper runs in March 2021
Ultrasound Imaging” is a paper that is part of postgraduate programmes at AUT
Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging (RUSI) One Day Seminar at Sportslab
Scott and Richard Ellis were invited to run an introduction RUSI for the team at Sportslab
