Originally Posted By: Mazomopar
Nice thing about ultrasound is seeing in real time. Yes, sometime we do positional manuevers to see if the patients have symptoms. Also, the vertebral arteries push blood up along side the vertebrae of your neck into the back side of the brain. These can get pinched occasionally in certain positions. Usually pain isnt associated with carotid stenosis, but never say never. Pretty far down the list, you could be thinking maybe carotid tumor,aneurysm. Crystal ball is a little frosted over today, 14 degrees here today. Best of luck.
I asked about it, asked if they can do a ultrasound flow study with varying positions, neither grandma's PCP nor the tech knew about it. Is there a special name for the this test?
Nice thing about ultrasound is seeing in real time. Yes, sometime we do positional manuevers to see if the patients have symptoms. Also, the vertebral arteries push blood up along side the vertebrae of your neck into the back side of the brain. These can get pinched occasionally in certain positions. Usually pain isnt associated with carotid stenosis, but never say never. Pretty far down the list, you could be thinking maybe carotid tumor,aneurysm. Crystal ball is a little frosted over today, 14 degrees here today. Best of luck.
I asked about it, asked if they can do a ultrasound flow study with varying positions, neither grandma's PCP nor the tech knew about it. Is there a special name for the this test?
