MSK Ultrasound

Course Dates 2026 - MTE Academy - Ludlow

Under the skin…

We teach you the basic skills required to incorporate MSK ultrasound into your clinical practice and to use it alongside your current clinical reasoning

We will also guide you towards the next steps to further develop your scanning skills. The course is a mixture of lectures, demonstrations and practical workshops. The practical workshops take place in small groups with close supervision from our tutor.

We will first of all introduce you to the Ultrasound machine and the probe and guide you through how to optimise images.

You will cover scanning of:

  • Achilles Tendon

  • Plantar Fascia

  • Medial Knee (Joint line and MCL)

  • Supraspinatus Tendon

  • Subscapularis Tendon

  • Long Head of Biceps Tendon

  • Lateral Elbow

  • Median Nerve

A man in a plaid shirt examining an ultrasound image on a tablet in a medical setting.

Course Dates 2026 - MTE Academy - Ludlow

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Mike Grice (Course Tutor) presented two workshops at Therapy Expo 2024

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A woman receiving manual therapy on her shoulder at a RockTape booth, with an audience watching, and a large screen displaying an ultrasound image.
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Event details for an ultrasound shoulder scan session, including date, time, location, description, and speaker information.
Event title: Introduction to ultrasound scanning of the facial layers at Rocktape Movement Summit on November 28, 2024, from 2:15 to 3:15 PM. Speaker: Mike Grice, RockTape Instructor.

Working with Celtic SMR

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Celtic SMR provide the Ultrasound devices used on our training days

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Artefacts

Ultrasound scanning can often throw up some strange anatomical anomalies and these are sometimes completely fictitious! We introduce you to common artefacts so that you will have a better understand of what is real and what has been created by the technology. 

  • Shadowing

  • Acoustic Enhancement

  • Reverberation

  • Anisotrophy

ESSR

We teach this course using the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology Guidelines for Ultrasound scanning

Next steps

Your next steps depend on your current qualifications and we will talk about the possible avenues that you can pursue if you wish to study further.

Course Dates 2026 - MTE Academy - Ludlow

Investment:

£195

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