Ultrasound

Ultrasounds are powerful, safe, and pain-free procedures that enable medical providers to diagnose a wide variety of injuries and ailments. With our own in-house equipment and highly trained staff, Our Family Health provides these services to our patients in and around Monroe from the comfort and convenience of our office. We employ the latest technology to help our patients get the best imaging so that we can make an accurate diagnosis and chart a path forward to wellness.

If you are being given one, your technician will apply a gel medium to the area of your body to be examined and then press a small hand-held device, called a transducer, against the area. This transducer sends and receives sound waves that are then sent to a computer to create an image of the area being looked at.

These images can be of many different parts of the body, to examine, diagnose, and monitor a variety of conditions. They are frequently used to see below the skin for evaluation of lumps and organs. They can be used to see the thyroid gland, liver or other parts of abdomen, and can be used to look at blood vessels and blood flow, and to look at the heart as an echocardiogram. They are widely used during pregnancy to monitor the development of the fetus. We do not offer pregnancy-related ultrasounds at our clinic.