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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Ultrasound Focus Series

ULTRASOUND HANDS-ON WORKSHOP: Elbow

 

Lecturer:

Todd P. Stitik, MD, RMSK and President – New Jersey Society of PM&R

Todd Stitik is a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

His primary clinical interests include musculoskeletal ultrasound, osteoarthritis and image-guided injection procedures.

 

 

Workshop Overview:

The workshop will consist of lecture and video material from actual injections with an emphasis on the elbow

• Videotaped examples of actual injection procedures
• Hands-on small group scanning for diagnostic and simulated injection procedures
• Injections covered but not limited to: distal biceps tendon, nerve hydrodissection (median in pronator tunnel, radial at arcade Frohse, ulnar at olecranon groove and cubital tunnel), olecranon bursa and fossa, percutaneous needle tenotomy and PRP of common extensor and common flexor tendons, etc.

Objectives

• Review the basic sonographic anatomy of the normal elbow
• Identify common pathologic processes involving the elbow as seen
  during diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound evaluations
• Perform simulated ultrasound-guided elbow region injection procedures

 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

This activity is made possible by an educational grant, and in-kind contribution of ultrasound machines from Konica Minolta.

 Please visit www.nyspmr.org or www.njspmr.net for more info