Joint Exam & Injections with an Introduction to Ultrasound features a 3-disk DVD set that presents a visual overview ofthe material covered during the two-day National Procedure Institute`s Orthopedic I course with an introduction toultrasound. This course provides a detailed overview of musculoskeletal essentials. The DVD also reviews and demonstratesthe physical examinaton techniques attendant to all major joints. In addition, the benefits of joint aspiration andorthopedic injection are addressed, to include step-by-step demonstrations of joint injections with ultrasound guidance.
Among the topics covered:
Among the topics covered:
- Basics of clinicalmusculoskeletalexamination
- Athletic injury
- Pain terminology
- Pathoanatomicaldiagnosis
- Functional assessment
- Neurologicexamination
- Tests for core stability
- Applied clinical anatomy
- Shoulder special tests
- Current evidence onusing NSAIDs andinjectablecorticosteriods
- Injection principles forthe musculoskeletalprovider
- Corticosteroidinjections
- Contraindications
- General principlesof injections
- Trigger point injections
- Coding
- Descriptions ofspecial tests
- Shoulder tests
- Practical examinationof the shoulder
- Impingement
- Hawkins test
- Scarf sign
- Drop-arm test
- Lift-off test
- O`Brien`s test
- Speeds test
- Spurlings test
- Ihermitte`s sign
- Roo`s test
- Adson`s test
- Sulcus test
- Apprenhensionrelocation test
- Elbow, hand, andwrist tests
- Practical examination
