A study of the effectiveness of ultrasound imaging in the early detection of cartilage degeneration in the knee joint of athletes

Knee injury is one of the common sports injuries, this paper aims to analyze the performance of ultrasound imaging technology in the assessment of early detection of athletes with knee pain, to provide a reliable assessment index for clinical diagnosis and treatment and an index for judging the efficacy. To analyze the causes of cartilage degeneration in athletes’ knee joints, and to evaluate and compare the ultrasound imaging method with the commonly used clinical assessment (Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) score, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) score) and imaging assessment (Digital Radiography(DR), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)) for knee osteoarthritis according to the advantageous performance of ultrasound imaging technology in the examination of knee joint diseases. The correlation between ultrasound assessment and VAS score and WOMAC score, as well as DR assessment and MRI assessment were obtained, respectively. To investigate the value of ultrasonography in the evaluation of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. The ultrasound scores of the knee were positively correlated with the VAS scores and WOMAC scores, with correlation coefficients of 0.891 and 0.902, respectively. The correlation coefficients of ultrasound ratings with DR ratings and MRI ratings were 0.876 and 0.895, respectively (both > 0.75), which were good correlations.