Sport medicine doesn’t get left behind

Consultant sports physician at the Sport Wales Institute Dr Mark Ridgewell.

The High Performance Area at the Sport Wales National Centre in the centre of Cardiff is now equipped with a SonoSite X-Porte system.  Point-of-care ultrasound is an essential tool for Dr Mark Ridgewell, an early pioneer for sports and exercise medicine and, for the past 13 years, consultant sports doctor at the Sport Wales Institute.  He explained: “Point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound has developed into an extremely useful tool for sports and exercise medicine, particularly in the last 10 years; it has certainly become indispensable for me.

“Patients these days are well read and aware.  Consultations often take the form of a discussion about managing a condition and the ability to explain things to individuals with the help of ultrasound is a real advantage.  It is excellent, for example, for assessing tendons during rehabilitation and recovery following an injury, or for looking at injuries dynamically, to work out what’s happening when a joint or tendons move.”

See the full report on page 9 of the August 2016 issue of RAD Magazine.