Ultrasound Assessment of an Acute Biceps Brachii Injury

David A. Krause, Jay Smith

DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2012.0411

The patient was a 24-year-old woman who was evaluated by a physical therapist in a direct-access sports medicine clinic for a chief complaint of right anterior arm pain and swelling. Given the unusual mechanism and location of the injury, significant pain and weakness, and questionable tissue defect, diagnostic ultrasound was ordered. The ultrasound examination findings revealed a strain of the right short head of the biceps brachii with a partial tear more distally.

J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2012;42(6):569. doi:10.2519/jospt.2012.0411

KEY WORDS: arm, elbow, ultrasound imaging

The patient was a 24-year-old woman who was evaluated by a physical therapist in a direct-access sports medicine clinic for a chief complaint of right anterior arm pain and swelling.

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