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Scanning the Hip

Dr. Oron Frenkel

Ultrasound of the hip can be useful to rule out joint effusion, or to guide an injection into the joint space. Dr. Frenkel describes the ultrasound appearance of a normal hip in this video.

Specialties: Emergency Medicine, MSK, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, Sports Medicine
Applications: MSK
i'm oran franklin emergency physician scanning the hip can help me identify joint diffusions or guide procedures when i need to under direct guidance to do this scan i'm going to use a curvilinear scanner here and i'm going to start transverse on the high leg identifying the femoral shaft as i come up the leg and it starts to change shape i'll rotate the transducer to really elongate the femoral neck and visualize the femoral head and the acetabulum from here i can see the femoral neck and identify if there's the presence of a joint diffusion or if my goal is a procedure i can safely guide a needle with direct guidance right into the joint space delivering my medication exactly where it needs to go you

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