Ultrasound in wrist ligament injuries

As the advancement in ultrasound technology and diagnostic accuracy progresses, the combination of dynamic ultrasound with physical examination and functional performance evaluation concepts may provide physicians with better understanding of the wrist ligament pathologies, and further develop injury severity grading systems. The most important ligaments of the wrist include but not limited to the following: scapholunate ligament; scapho-luno-triquetral ligament; Long and Short radiolunate ligaments; palmar ulnolunate and ulnotriquetral ligaments.