Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for preoperative pain management after hip fracture provide improvements over conventional anesthesia including greater pain reduction and fewer adverse events, results ...

New evidence suggests that receiving low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) to speed up bone healing after fracture has little or no impact on pain or recovery time, say a panel of international ...

Ultrasound imaging has rapidly gained traction as a safe, radiation-free modality for detecting and monitoring fractures in children. Its real-time capability, portability and absence of ionising ...

Receiving ultrasound after surgery to repair a fractured tibia (shinbone) does not accelerate healing or improve functional recovery compared with sham treatment, finds a trial. Receiving ultrasound ...

A team of doctors, nurses and medical researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Australia has found that ultrasound devices can serve as reliable diagnostic tools for children presenting ...

2 Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Dr Mark R Elkins, Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, The George Institute ...

Portable ultrasound devices could provide an alternative to x-ray machines for diagnosing forearm fractures in children in a move that could alleviate waiting times for families in hospital emergency ...

Quantitative ultrasound measurement of the calcaneus (heel) is an alternative to dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) for diagnosing osteoporosis. Compared with DEXA, ultrasound has the potential ...

An ultrasound device “helps bones heal faster and stronger,” The Daily Telegraph have reported. The news is based on a trial that investigated whether a device emitting low-intensity pulsed ultrasound ...

Washington D.C. [US], Oct. 26 (ANI): Low intensity ultrasound after surgical repair of a bone fracture, is a popular treatment to progress recovery, but it does not work, found a large international ...

DXA has been widely accepted as a noninvasive method for BMD measurement in adults as well as in pediatric subjects (1). An important shortcoming of DXA is that it measures an areal density, so that ...

Receiving ultrasound after surgery to repair a fractured tibia (shinbone) does not accelerate healing or improve functional recovery compared with sham treatment, finds a trial of US patients ...