Ultrasound scanning is hard on your wrist, shoulder and elbow. Make good ergonomics a habit. Get the patient to shuffle over towards your side of the stretcher or bed. Adjust the machine console and screen height to eye level. Lower the bed if you can so that you are sitting or standing above your patient, working down and across rather than reaching up and over while you scan. To save you leaning and reaching over to your patients left side, get the patient to roll towards you partly onto their right side. Be kind to yourself.