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. 2022 Apr 14;14(5):611–619. doi: 10.1002/pmrj.12790

TABLE 6.

Proposed progression of clinical teaching based on trainee experience and procedural complexity

Procedural experience Appropriate clinical teaching with example diagnoses
Beginner
  • Superficial soft tissue structures
    • Plantar fasciopathy
  • Large muscle‐tendon units (without inclusion of adjacent bone)
    • Achilles tendinopathy (noninsertional)
Intermediate
  • Muscle‐tendon‐bone units (with inclusion of adjacent bony origin or insertion)
    • Achilles tendinopathy (insertional)
    • Patellar tendinopathy
    • Proximal hamstring tendinopathy
  • Spasticity

Advanced
  • Bone stress injury/stress fracture

  • Joints/periarticular structures
    • Tibiotalar, subtalar joints
    • Arthropathy‐related marrow edema
    • Avascular necrosis
  • Structures that require ultrasound expertise for targeted treatment
    • Calcific tendinopathy
  • Structures adjacent to key neurovascular, reproductive, or other anatomy including lung parenchyma
    • Osteitis pubis
    • Spine/axial indications