In this video, we're going to talk a little bit about ultrasound for the need for knee pain and knee injury. Now, ultrasound has a few advantages, but it also has some disadvantages. It's a very cheap test and it's very readily available, which is a major advantage. It's also great for showing fluid in the knee, which as we mentioned earlier, fluid is a symptom, but it's not the injury itself. So you might be able to see that your knee has fluid, but it might not be clear where that's coming from. ultrasound is not great for showing cartilage or the bone, but it is good for showing inflammation.

So if you have tendinitis, or inflammation of one of the tendons or ligaments, an ultrasound can be good to show that. Also, if you have a tear of the muscle, which is a little bit of a rare injury, ultrasound can also be good for this. A lot of primary care doctors First send their patients to ultrasound, kind of to get it out of the way so that they can move up to the next step afterwards. Another major advantage of ultrasound is that there's no radiation. So it's a very quick and easy test that can be done, and there's no real risks doing it. Alright, I think we've mentioned enough about ultrasound.

Let's get into talking about x rays.