AAPM&R, in collaboration with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), is the accredited CME provider for the AMSSM Sports Ultrasound Online Didactics videos. If you don’t want to claim CME for this activity, you can access these videos at no charge on AMSSM’s website by clicking here.

This activity contains the following videos, a post-test, and evaluation. It is also part of a complete set with other sports ultrasound videos available in the catalog if you wish to enroll in that instead.

This activity contains the following videos, a post-test, and evaluation:

• US GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES OF THE SHOULDER (14 mins)
• US GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES OF THE ELBOW (7 mins)
• US GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES OF THE WRIST & HAND (8 mins)
• US GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES OF THE HIP (7 mins)
• US GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES OF THE KNEE (12 mins)
• US GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES OF THE ANKLE & FOOT (7 mins)

To claim CME credit with AAPM&R for viewing the videos, you must:

• Sign in to the AAPM&R Online Learning Portal and pay the enrollment fee to add this activity to your courses page.
• Complete and obtain a minimum passing score of 70% on the activity post-test. You will have unlimited attempts to achieve the passing score.
• Complete the activity evaluation.

Learning Objectives
After completing this enduring material, the participant should be able to:

• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of needle tracking using an in-plane versus out-of-plane approach, and provide clinical examples of when each approach may be beneficial
• Demonstrate the ability to efficiently relocate a lost needle during both an in-plane and out-of-plane needle tracking
• Obtain an acceptable set of pre-, intra-, and postprocedure images of a US-guided procedure
• Image a needle using an in-plane (longitudinal or long-axis) and out-of-plane (short-axis or transverse) approach using US guidance in a phantom, turkey breast, cadaveric specimen, or other imaging medium, including demonstration of the following transducer manipulations:
  • Translation (sliding/gliding)
  • Rotation
• Describe “cross-cut” artifact when imaging/tracking a needle during an interventional procedure
  • Heel-toe
  • Tilting (toggling/wagging)
  • Compression

Accreditation Statement
AAPM&R is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Designation
AAPM&R designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Faculty and their Disclosures
AAPM&R requires all individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest, which is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. Disclosures are made in written form prior to the start of the educational activity and any potential conflicts of interest that exist are resolved prior to the start of the activity through AAPM&R’s Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Resolution Policy Process. Individuals in a position to control content and their disclosed financial relationships are listed below.

Faculty
Chad Carlson, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Andrew Concoff, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Jonathan Finnoff, DO
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Mederic Hall, MD
Consultant for Tenex Health; Medical Advisory Board for Sonex Health; Royalties for UpToDate

Elena Jelsing, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Mark Lavallee, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Tim Mazzola, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Sathish Rajasekaran, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships

Mark Stovak, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

AMSSM Presidential Task Force
David Berkoff, MD
Educational grants from Sonosite, Phillips, and GE.

Fred Brennan, Jr., DO
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

John DiFiori, MD
Consultant for the NBA.

Jonathan Finnoff, DO
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Mederic Hall, MD
Consultant for Tenex Health; Medical Advisory Board for Sonex Health; Royalties for UpToDate.

Kimberly Harmon, MD
Stock options with 98point6.

Mark Lavallee, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Sean Martin, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Jay Smith, MD
Stockholder, License Agreement, Royalties, Patent with Tenex Health; Stockholder, License Agreement, Royalties, Patent, Board of Governors, Chief Medical Officer with Sonex Health; Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine Section Editor.

Mark Stovak, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

AMSSM Board of Directors
Chad Asplund, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

David Berkoff, MD
Educational grants from Sonosite, Phillips, and GE.

Anthony Beutler, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Katherine Dec, MD
Consultant, Research and Bracing, and Speaker for Ossur Americas; Author for UpToDate.

John DiFiori, MD
Consultant for the NBA.

Jon Divine, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Jonathan Finnoff, DO
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Matthew Gammons, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Mark Halstead, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Eugene Hong, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Neeru Jayanthi, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Amanda Weiss-Kelly, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Chris Madden, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Amy Powell, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Thomas Trojian, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Verle Valentine, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Ty Wadsworth, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

AAPM&R Ultrasound Task Force
John C. Cianca, MD, Chair
Ownership or partnership with Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Consultants, LLC.

Katharine E. Alter, MD
Royalties from Demos Medical Publishing; Honoraria from Elsevier, Dannemiller, and Johns Hopkins.

Alfred C. Gellhorn, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Mark B. Hurdle, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Elena J. Jelsing, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Evan R. Peck, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Christopher J. Visco, MD
Consulting for Terason,

AAPM&R Medical Education Committee
Steve R. Flanagan, MD, Chair
Advisory panel for Merz 

Anna-Christina Bevelaqua, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

John C. Cianca, MD
Ownership or partnership with Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Consultants, LLC.

Claire Finkel, RPC
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Rita G. Hamilton, DO
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Mark E. Huang, MD 
Consultant, Best Doctors; Cerner Corporation, Nonremunerative position of influence.

R. Sam Mayer, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Andre Panagos, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Atul T. Patel, MD, MHSA 
Speakers' Bureau for Allergan; has participated on clinical trials for Ipsen, Merz, and Revance.

Amy Phelan, MD, DVM
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Kerrie M. Reed, MD
Alert Core, Inc., Chief Medical Officer and equity partner.

Sunil Sabharwal, MD
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

Nathaniel V. Zuziak, DO
Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

No other planners, faculty or other individuals in control of content disclosed any relevant financial relationships.