Doctor Sherman Nagler and Dr. Bryan Lee are proud to provide in-office diagnostic ultrasound procedures for their patients. Ultrasound serves as the critical counterpart to what X-ray affords in assessing bone trauma, allowing us to accurately view and monitor pathologies involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other soft-tissue.
Highly accurate examinations and measurements of the plantar fascia, to clearly indicate areas of inflammation, ruptures, regions of hematoma, etc., in part to definitively distinguish between plantar fasciitis and plantar fasciosis, a plantar fibroma, a heel spur, or other heel pad injuries (each of which requiring its own individual course of treatment).
Clear examinations of the Achilles and PT Tendons, ascertaining the extent of tears and ruptures and varying degrees of tendonitis, periarticular swelling, etc.
Critical differentiation between neuromas and capsulitis (very similar in location and symptomatic effects, but distinctly different and verifiable under ultrasound examination).
Clear distinction between assorted soft tissue tumors, requiring varying protocols in treatment (e.g., a fibroma and its hyperechoic septa as opposed to a ganglion cyst or hematoma, which appear hypoechoic under ultrasound investigation).
Comprehensive evaluation of deep tissue trauma (as well as ulcers and lesions), where the trauma below the wound and any tunneling can be identified and carefully monitored.
Diagnostic ultrasound provides our doctors with the ability to see soft-tissue pathologies and trauma to the foot and ankle, making possible far clearer distinctions. This information contributes greatly to our ability to best prescribe (and monitor the progress of) the best treatments for our patients.
and the aspiration of fluid-filled masses not fully palpable.
Only through live, ultrasound guidance can injections requiring this kind of precision, be delivered accurately. Without ultrasound guidance, such procedures are very often (literally) hit or miss.
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