Probe movements:
+Pressure: should be steady but not excessive. Once contact is made between the probe and the patient, increasing the pressure will not improve the image.
+Sliding: moving the probe left, right, up, or down to change the area that is being viewed. Should be done with the probe held in a flat, upright position.
+Rotation: turning the probe in a circular movement while staying in the same location, i.e. by moving the notch from 12 o-clock to 3 o-clock with the probe held in one location, you will go from a longitudinal plane to a transverse or cross-sectional plane traveling through many oblique planes. This changes the orientation of the view or the plane of the image.
+Fanning (Rocking): tilting the probe. This changes the angle of the view, i.e. from 0 to 10 and so on, enabling you to see multiple "slices" of tissue.

Pitch refers to movement up or down. For a transducer in a transverse orientation on the abdomen, this would refer to tilting or “fanning” the probe toward the head or feet. Yaw refers to a side‐to‐side turn. This would correspond to angling the same probe left or right toward the patient's flanks. Finally, roll refers to spinning on a central long axis. If this motion is done with the aforementioned probe, the transverse orientation would become sagittal. At first, focus on moving the probe in one plane at a time, and note the impact on the image. Novice users often become disoriented when they believe that they are moving in one plane but are truly twisting through multiple axes at once.