Introduction

This week, Dr. Hausmann takes on Ultrasound in Rheumatology, exploring its use in the field and diagnosing diseases such as Inflammatory Arthritis, Crystaline Arthropathy and Vasculitis. Dr. Minna Kohler, Founder and Director of the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, joins us as our guest. Dr. Kohler discusses how Ultrasound can help therapeutically, what it's like working in an MSK Ultrasound clinic, plus how one can become trained in the use of Ultrasound, what the patient experience is like, the controversies surrounding the use of Ultrasound in rheumatology and what the future holds for it in our field.