Patent ID: 8029452

Claim:
A support for a hand-held ultrasound probe having an axially extending body terminating at a transducer face emitting and receiving ultrasound along an axis, the support comprising: an arm brace adapted to engage a portion of a sonographer's arm above the wrist; a coupling element attached to the arm brace distal to the sonographer's wrist at a location removed from a palm of a hand of the wrist of the sonographer when the arm brace engages the portion of the sonographer's arm, the coupling element including a pivot; an ultrasound probe attached to the coupling element so that the ultrasound probe is positionable to be grasped in the palm of the hand of the sonographer to manipulate the pivot to change an angle of the axis of the probe with respect to an axis of the sonographer's arm; and whereby at least a portion of a force on the probe when the probe is pressed against a patient by the sonographer is communicated through the coupling to the sonographer's arm while bypassing the sonographer's wrist.