Shoulder & knee ultrasound

Shoulder or upper arm

Where the service is provided, for the assessment of one or more of the following conditions or suspected conditions:

• evaluation of injury to tendon, muscle or muscle/tendon junction; or
• rotator cuff tear/calcification/tendinosis (biceps, subscapular, suspraspinatus, infraspinatus); or
• biceps subluxation; or
• capsulitis and bursitis; or
• evaluation of mass including ganglion; or
• occult fracture; or
• acromioclavicular joint pathology.

Knee

Where the service is provided for the assessment of one or more of the following conditions or suspected conditions:

• abnormality of tendons or bursae about the knee; or
• meniscal cyst, popliteal fossa cyst, mass or pseudomass; or
• nerve entrapment, nerve or nerve sheath tumour; or
• injury of collateral ligaments.