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Sierra Summit’s integrated ultrasound complements electrodiagnostic testing and improves your diagnoses and treatment decisions
Cadwell is dedicated to proactively advancing the technology of Neuromuscular Ultrasound and delivering education regarding its use
We believe that by providing a fully integrated EMG/US diagnostic solution, and by driving the development of dedicated ultrasound-focused features, we are helping you help others even more efficiently in the future.
An emerging diagnostic subspecialty, ultrasound is recognized as a complementary practice for neurodiagnostic testing in neurology and physical medicine and rehabilitation. High resolution ultrasound can study peripheral nerves, sensitively observe muscle disease, guide local anesthetic administration for nerve blocks, and enhance nerve localization. Ultrasound improves safety margins for injection needle procedures, EMG needle placement, and direct needle stimulation of deep nerves.
“In experienced hands, ultrasound is more sensitive than MRI in detecting peripheral nerve pathologies.”
Neuromuscular Ultrasound: Clinical Applications and Diagnostic Values (2018). Jean K. Mah and Nens van Alfen. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.”
Ultrasound provides real-time neuromuscular visualization
- Dynamic visualization
- Ability to see moving tissue
- Ability to see vascular flow with Doppler imaging
- Protect target and surrounding soft tissue structures in diagnostic and therapeutic needle guidance procedures
- Enhance safety and accuracy in needle procedures
Ultrasound is a safe, portable, and low-cost diagnostic imaging technique
- No ionizing radiation
- Can be used with metallic implants
- No claustrophobia, as with other imaging modalities
- No restrictions or known adverse effects
- Instant feedback of results
“Ultrasound has some generic advantages over other imaging modalities in that it is a portable, bedside point-of-care technology that is non-invasive, painless and does not involve ionizing radiation.”
Neuromuscular Ultrasound: A New Tool in Your Toolbox
(2018). Nens van Alfen and Jean K. Mah. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.
Summit gives you combined neurodiagnostic and imaging techniques to strengthen findings, validate diagnoses, and improve treatment decisions
Clinical indications for ultrasound
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Ulnar neuropathies
- Fibular neuropathies
- Hereditary neuropathies
- Nerve transections
- Nerve tumors
- Neuromas
- Inflammatory myopathies
- Neurogenic muscle atrophies
This information was cited from AANEM Position Statement: Neuromuscular Ultrasound Qualifications (2014). Francis O. Walker, MD, Katharine E. Alter, MD, Andrea J. Boon, MD, Michael S. Cartwright, MD, Victor H. Flores, MD, Lisa D. Hobson-Webb, MD, Christopher H. Hunt, MD, Scott J. Primack, DO, Steven J. Shook, MD.
What can ultrasound help diagnose and evaluate?
- Abnormal fluid accumulation
- Amyorophic lateral sclerosis
- Arteries and arterial flow
- Axonotmesis
- Bursitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Chronic traction spurring
- Cortical breaks
- Cysts
- Denervation Atrophy
- Edema
- Focal Neuropathies
- Infection
- Ligament Injury
- Muscle Disease
- Muscle Strain Injury
- Myopathy
- Neurogenic Atrophy
- Neurotmesis
- Peripheral nerve injuries
- Postsurgical Alterations
- Swelling
- Tendinopathy
- Tendons, disease or damage, intrasubstance degeneration, enlargement and tearing
- Traumatic Alterations
- Undersurface Tearing
- Veins and venous flow
- Venous Thrombosis, superficial or deep
What can ultrasound help you see?
- Adipose tissue
- Arteries and arterial pulsations
- Atrophic musles
- Blood
- Bone, bony landmarks, bone erosions and hypertrophy
- Bursae: mucosal, synovial, communicating and noncommunicating
- Cartilage, hyaline cartilage, and fibrocartilage
- Congenitally absent muscles
- Cysts
- Denervation
- Edemas
- Extrinsic Tumors
- Fascia and Fascicular Architecture
- Fat
- Foreign Bodies
- Hematoma
- Intrinsic Tumors
- Joints
- Ligaments
- Lipoma
- Masses: size, shape, borders, characteristic changes over time, and compressibility
- Muscle Abnormalities
- Muscle Atrophy
- Muscle Hernias
- Muscle Movement
- Muscle Tissue, including precise measurement of size
- Myopathy
- Needle Guidance
- Nerve Tissue, including precise measurement of size, and superficial nerves
- Neurogenic Atrophy
- Neurovascular Bundles
- Osteophytes
- Peripheral Nerve Tissue
- Scarring
- Skin
- Spurs
- Tendons and Tendonopathy
- Tissue Movement
- Vascularity
- Veins and superficial veins
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