MRI Online MRI Mastery Series: Ankle 2017
People take their ankles for granted, and it shows in the frequency and mechanism of injuries to this joint. Whether it’s a game-time injury featuring an athlete or a grocery store parking lot accident involving your elderly neighbor, reading an ankle MRI entails participation in decisions about a patient’s mobility and therefore their quality of life.
People take their ankles for granted, and it shows in the frequency and mechanism of injuries to this joint. Whether it’s a game-time injury featuring an athlete or a grocery store parking lot accident involving your elderly neighbor, reading an ankle MRI entails participation in decisions about a patient’s mobility and therefore their quality of life. Some patients can’t wait to bear weight again ASAP (along with their parents/coaches/spouses), others have numerous health issues and experience pain with flexion or extension, inversion or eversion.
There’s a lot to consider in this hinge joint and its associated tunnels and attachments – fractures/dislocations usually come with associated ligamentous and tendinous disruption. If you aren’t lucky enough to get a detailed or accurate report of the mechanism of injury, you may be using corollary clues to piece together your evaluation. Which damage is acute and which is chronic? How stable is the ankle? Is nerve injury a factor? Don’t get us started on bone and soft tissue masses. In addition to discerning orthopedic surgeons, you may also field referrals from busy podiatrists who know their field thoroughly and expect the same from their imagers.
The ankle need not be your – “ahem” – Achilles heel. Take a spin through our Ankle MRI Mastery Series (anatomy, protocols & sequences, extensive case review) and sharpen your skills proactively, or consult as-needed for tricky cases to buff up your awareness of Lisfranc, syndesmotic, coalition, or Charcot appearances. You might be called upon to vary a protocol, evaluate multiple previous injuries, or discuss accessory muscles, ossicles or bones. All of these topics and more are covered in our Mastery series, supplemented by our Professional, Case Review and Advanced Orthopaedic and Joint Series. If they’re anything like ours, your referrers may be pretty knowledgeable about what they can see, and they will expect you to be even more so. Don’t sprain your brain – rise to the challenge, demonstrate your grading prowess and establish yourself as a go-to reader in this musculoskeletal field where the volume of patients can be as large as the injury variation is wide.
Ankle MRI Anatomy & Diganosis Covered in this Course
- Achilles tendon injury
- Ancillary stabilizers
- Anterior tarsal tunnel space
- Anterior tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Charcot foot vs reactive arthritis
- Coalition
- Collateral ligaments
- Deep peroneal nerve
- Deltoid ligament
- Extensor digitorum longus
- Extensor hallucis longus
- Fibromatosis
- Instability
- Inversion injury
- Lisfranc injury
- Lisfranc joint
- Masses
- Medial plantar nerve
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteochondral defect of talar dome
- Peroneus brevis
- Peroneus longus
- Plantar fasciitis
- Posterior tibial tendon
- Saphenous nerve
- Sensory nerve supply
- Sinus Tarsi Syndrome
- Sprains
- Superficial peroneal nerve
- Sural nerve
- Syndesmosis widening
- Tibial nerve
- Tibialis anterior tendon
- And much more…
Topics :
- Introduction to Ankle Imaging: Why Use MRI? – 3 min
- Ankle MRI Mastery Series: Protocols and Sequences – 51 min
- Using Foot and Ankle Coils – 4 min
- Sagittal Plane: Sequences (56-year-old male) – 5 min
- Sagittal Plane: Field of View – 4 min
- Axial Plane: The Strengths of the Short Axis Projection – 8 min
- Special Sequences and Pitfalls – 6 min
- Utility of the Additive Gradient Echo Sequence – 5 min
- Using Neutral positioned Scans – 7 min
- Using Low Field in Ankle Imaging – 6 min
- Expanded Field of View on 1.5 Tesla – 6 min
- Ankle MRI Mastery Series: Anatomy – 102 min
- Ligamentous Anatomy – 3 min
- Posterior Ligaments in the Coronal Plane – 3 min
- Anterior Ligaments in the Coronal Plane – 2 min
- Anterior Ligaments in the Sagittal Plane – 2 min
- Posterior Ligaments in the Sagittal Plane – 3 min
- Collateral Ligaments in the Axial Plane – 6 min
- Lateral Collateral Ligamentous Anatomy in Plantar Flexion – 2 min
- Deltoid Ligament Anatomy – 4 min
- Deltoid Ligament in the Axial Plane – 2 min
- Deltoid Ligament in the Sagittal Plane – 2 min
- Deltoid Ligament in the Coronal Plane – 3 min
- Deltoid Ligament: Origins and Insertions – 3 min
- Lateral Superficial Ligaments – 1 min
- Introduction to Tendinous Anatomy – 3 min
- The Achilles Tendon – 5 min
- The Posterior Tibial Tendon – 4 min
- Lateral Tendon Anatomy: Peroneus Brevis & Longus – 4 min
- Tracking the Peroneus Brevis – 3 min
- Tracking the Peroneus Longus – 6 min
- Tibialis Anterior Tendon – 4 min
- Extensor Hallucis Longus – 3 min
- Extensor Digitorum Longus – 4 min
- Extensor Digitorum Longus: Pitfalls – 5 min
- Anterior Tarsal Tunnel Space – 2 min
- Anterior Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome – 4 min
- Deep Peroneal Nerve – 2 min
- Superficial Peroneal Nerve – 2 min
- Sural Nerve – 2 min
- Saphenous Nerve – 2 min
- Tibial Nerve – 2 min
- Sensory Nerve Supply – 3 min
- Medial Plantar Nerve – 5 min
- Lateral & Medial Plantar Nerves – 5 min
- Ankle MRI Mastery Series: Mid-foot Anatomy – 18 min
- The Lisfranc Joint – 6 min
- Columnar Mid-foot Anatomy – 1 min
- Ancillary Stabilizers in the Mid-Foot – 4 min
- Lisfranc Injury Classifications – 2 min
- Classifying Lisfranc Injury on MRI (10-year-old female) – 5 min
- Ankle MRI Mastery Series: Case Review – 178 min
- Case Review: 52 Year Old Female – Fell and Now Has Inversion Injury – 7 min
- Case Review: 10 Year Old Female with Fracture – 6 min
- Vertullo Classification – 10 min
- Case Review: 20 Year Old Male with Syndesmosis Widening – 12 min
- Case Review: 24 Year Old Male Professional Athlete with an Inversion Injury – 8 min
- Case Review: 24 Year Old Male Athlete – Continuing the Search – 7 min
- Case Review: Posterior Ligaments – 1 min
- Case Review: 55 Year Old Man with Prior Fracture, Swelling, Pain in the Talar Neck and Posterior Ankle – 10 min
- Case Review: 23 Year Old Female with 2 Prior Ankle Sprains – 5 min
- Case Review: 32 Year Old Man with Pain and Tenderness in the Sub-talar Space – 9 min
- Case Review: Teenager with Ankle Pain – Rule Out Fracture/OCD – 9 min
- Case Review: 41 Year Old Female with a Jumping Injury – 11 min
- Case Review: 11 Year Old Male with Painful Foot Six Months Post Fall – 9 min
- Case Review: 52 Year Old Female, Twists Ankle in Shoe and Can No Longer Bear Weight on Foot – 4 min
- Case Review: 6 Year Old Female Presents with Foot Pain and Stiffness – 6 min
- Case Review: 68 Year Old Man with Hind-foot Pain – 14 min
- Case Review: 63 Year Old Male with Medial Ankle Pain – 10 min
- Case Review: Peroneus Brevis G.O.A.T. Case – 4 min
- Case Review: 56 Year Old Male with Osteoarthritis and Instability – 11 min
- Case Review: 67 Year Old Male with Painful Medial Bump – 6 min
- Case Review: 55 Year Old Female with Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction and Sensation of Instability – 4 min
- Case Review: 58 Year Old Male with Masses that are Increasing in Size – 6 min
- Case Review: 26 Year Old Male Athlete – Unable to Push Off with Foot Due to Pain – 7 min