Imaging: Upper Extremity

When sports medicine physicians need another set of eyes to diagnose an elusive condition, like a stress fracture or a neuropathy, medical imaging can help confirm or rule-out a diagnosis. The next two issues of "Clinics in Sports Medicine" are dedicated to Imaging Upper and Lower Extremities respectively. Tim Sanders, MD examines approaches and interpreting injuries of the shoulder, elbow, ulnar-sided wrist pain, finger and thumb and even upper extremity imaging in children. Key words include: MRI, ultrasound, low field strength MR imaging, shoulder, elbow, glenohumeral instability, wrist, high-performance throwing athletes, entrapment neuropathies