Benefits and Risks – Muscle and Tissue Ultrasound

Benefits

• An ultrasound exam is noninvasive and painless.
• Ultrasound is widely available, easy-to-use and less expensive than other imaging methods.
• An ultrasound exam is extremely safe and does not use any ionizing radiation.
• Ultrasound scanning gives a clear picture of soft tissues that do not show up well on x-ray images.

Risks

• For standard diagnostic ultrasound, there are no known harmful effects.