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My name is C.J. Miller and I am a physical therapist with Frontline Function. Today, I'm going to be talking to you about how you can use the Clarice L 15 scanner to compare side to side on your patients. This is a really helpful tool if you're uncertain about what you're looking at, if it's abnormal or normal, maybe you're just starting out learning ultrasound.
It's one of the huge advantages of ultrasound is I can compare side to side very quickly in real time with my patients. It helps me as a learner, but it also helps my patients understand what pathology looks like and what normal may look like by comparing their right to their left sides. Today we'll do that in the anterior knee.
I'll come over and scan the anterior knee, the patellar tendon here. As I place my probe in long axis. The left side of the screen is the patella. The right side of the screen is the tibial tuberosity. And we can see a nice clean patellar tendon coming across the screen and attaching onto that tibial tuberosity.
Now, one notable finding as I scan the width of that insertion is just how significant the cortical change is, where that tendon inserts onto the tibial tuberosity. So I can scan the width of that and get a good idea of how it looks. And if I'm uncertain if this is our patients normal
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compared to the right side, I can double check that. So I'll take a look at it in long axis
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and in short axis, and really get a good image in my brain as to how this looks. But more importantly, I can find maybe the peak of where I feel like that abnormality is most prominent. I can freeze and I can go and go ahead and.
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Split our screen to now come over to his right side.
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As I scan the same area on his right side, I can scan medially and laterally
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and we can see just how different and smooth the bone looks here. So there's far less cortical abnormalities on this right side. Um, and what's really nice is I can use our split screen mode to compare. That helps me understand that what I'm seeing on the left side is potentially a true abnormality. Helps our patients understand maybe where some of their pain might be coming from and how that differs from their non painful side, but it's also just a helpful way to use this double screen to compare side to side.
So that's how we can use our Clarice El 15 scanner to compare side to side on your patients.