At Health Solutions, we welcome all patients looking to schedule an ultrasound at our facility as we employ the latest technology in delivering our services. Contact us to schedule your ultrasound appointment.

In an ultrasound, sonographic sound waves outline the shape of various tissues and organs in the body to produce images. These images assist the radiologist and/or medical provider in diagnosis and treatment of conditions.

The Benefits of an Ultrasound

• Safe – Ultrasound emits NO ionizing radiation. It may be all you need.
• Effective – Ultrasound has comparable or superior diagnostic capability in a growing number of imaging scenarios making it the smart diagnostic choice.

Health Solutions is one of the only facilities in the Caribbean employing the revolutionary U-Arm Digital X-Ray system in order to provide top quality medical images to all patients. This is due to the fact that our system maintains constant alignment for each X-Ray conducted, provides flexibility to all patients in standing, sitting, or lying position, including disabled or physically restricted and it is user-friendly which best guarantees efficient and confident diagnosis.

An X-Ray is a quick and painless diagnostic test used to help diagnose many health conditions including but not limited to pneumonia, heart failure and other heart problems, emphysema, lung cancer, line and tube placement, fluid or air collection around the lungs.

X-Ray imaging works by projecting a small form of radiation through part of your body to produce a black and white image.

Two common types of X-Rays are the following:

Bone X-ray provides images of any bone in the body, including the hand, wrist, arm, elbow, shoulder, spine, pelvis, hip, thigh, knee, leg (shin), ankle or foot. Such an X-ray can assist in the diagnosis of Scoliosis.

Chest X-ray can also be ordered to view the heart, lungs, airways, blood vessels and the bones of the spine and chest.

Health Solutions believes that screening is critical to the detection of breast cancer at any stage. Annual screening mammography is currently recommended for all women over the age of 40. Our equipment can detect a cancer in the breast in some cases up to two years before a patient or physician can feel the lump. Make Health Solutions your screening centre as we employ the best staff in digital mammography and use state of the art equipment to perform mammograms for all patients.

We have found that following screening mammography, about 10% of women will be recalled for additional views. This should not cause undue worry as more than 9 out of 10 patients that get recalled for additional views are subsequently categorized as “benign” or “probably benign”.

If it is determined that additional views are necessary, one of our staff will contact you and schedule an appointment. If a biopsy is deemed necessary, we will schedule an appointment and make all arrangements to have this procedure completed, pending authorization from you and/or your doctor.

At Health Solutions, bone density testing is available by appointment. This is part of our approach to providing preventative care to our patients as Bone Density provides diagnosis of osteoporosis and assesses an individual’s risk for developing fractures. It is quick, non-invasive, and uses less than 1/10th the dose of a standard chest X-ray.

Osteoporosis is a debilitating bone loss condition that affects one in three women after menopause. Although osteoporosis typically afflicts women, men can also develop bone loss. For women, a baseline scan is usually recommended at age 50 or following menopause. Subsequent scans are typically ordered every 2 years.

This test is one of the steps in forming the diagnosis and overall management of osteoporosis. While 1 in 8 women have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, 1 in 4 women have a lifetime risk of developing osteoporosis (1 in 8 for men).

Osteoporosis is also silent and only becomes apparent when a bone is fractured from what would generally be considered a minor fall (fragility fracture). The bones that are commonly involved include the wrist, hip and spine.

Bone density is measured using a process called a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, or what’s commonly known as a DEXA scan. This procedure measures the density of bones in areas of the body that are prone to breaks and fractures, such as the spine, hips and forearms.