• Ignacio Manuel Sánchez Barrancos, Antonio Lorenzo Ruiz Serrano, Roberto González Santisteban, Susana Manso García, Trinidad Hernández Rodríguez, Pedro Lozano Gago, and Laura Conangla Ferrín.
• Especialidad en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Consultorio local de Membrilla, Centro de Salud Manzanares 2, Gerencia de Atención Integrada de Manzanares, Ciudad Real, España. Electronic address: imanuels@sescam.jccm.es.
• Aten Primaria. 2018 Dec 1; 50 (10): 629643629-643.

AbstractMusculoskeletal ultrasound (MSU) is a technique which has been extended to practically all medical specialties that comprise this pathology. Family Doctor (FD) has not been away from this process due to its great wide of competences, using it in different scenarios inside his common practice in which he can get profits in a reliable, efficient and effective way. Ultrasound equipment incorporation in Primary Care (PC) centers is an increasing reality, contributing to high ranges of accessibility, immediacy and clinic handle capability, and thus, together with the high prevalence in this area in locomotor apparatus, turns MSU into an strategic action for the improvement of the resolving capacity and consequently for the health care. To ensure proficiency among users, it's being necessary to define the benefits and potential risks its use can cause, as well as its different scenarios, avoiding unnecessary explorations and optimizing the investment of this resource at PC level. This paper pretends to summarize the state of the art of the musculoskeletal ultrasound and its benefits for the FD into this efficient and effective scenarios.Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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