Clinic short staffing in medical imaging departments presents a challenge, impacting patient care, patient leakage, and workflow efficiency. With cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging for orthopedics, your orthopedic department can ensure reliable access to necessary advanced diagnostic imaging exams. Unlike…
It is feasible for a single-practitioner podiatry practice to add weight bearing CT (WBCT) imaging and realize economical and operational benefits, Dr. Nicholas Hugentobler, DPM, explained in a webinar titled, “Incorporating Weight Bearing CT Imaging into the Daily Podiatric Practice” on FOOTInnovate. Dr…
"Cone beam CT reduces the barriers for orthopedic practices to offer CT imaging in-house," says Dr. Benjamin Stronach, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at UAMS Health. The footprint of a cone beam CT system is more manageable than a medical CT…
Weight bearing CT scans are helping us understand pediatric foot deformities better than ever before. Did you know 90% of children with cerebral palsy develop a foot deformity? Relative position and orientation of the talus, calcaneus, and navicular bones are…
Most recently, CurveBeam AI and Vent Creativity explored the use of weight bearing CT (WBCT) to better understand each patient’s individual knee kinematics. While there has been a tremendous amount of work done to better understand how the knee joint…
Key Points: Stress fractures should always be considered in athletes with ankle pain. This is the first published case in which weight bearing CT (WBCT) was used in diagnosis and surgical planning of a stress fracture. In the sport of…
The use of upright CT, also known as weight bearing CT (WBCT), is one of the biggest innovations in orthopedic imaging in the past decade, said Dr. Eric Bogner, MD Chief of the Division of CT at Hospital for Special…
Progressive Collapsing Foot Deformity Progressive Collapsing Foot Deformity (PCFD), previously known as adult-acquired flatfoot deformity, is a multifactorial disorder characterized by concurrent multiplanar bony deformities. These deformities include, but are not limited to, hindfoot valgus, flattening of the medial longitudinal…
Midfoot Arthritis Midfoot arthritis occurs when there is loss of cartilage at the tarsometatarsal and/or navicular-cuneiform joints. It has the potential to cause significant pain, disability, and decreased quality of life. The most common etiology is posttraumatic degeneration, but primary…
Lisfranc Injuries A Lisfranc injury is characterized by an injury to the ligament that connects the medial cuneiform with the 2nd metatarsal base (Lisfranc ligament). Often, there are associated midfoot fractures. Unstable Lisfranc injuries left untreated can result in chronic…
