Get step-by-step, evidence-based guidance on the injections most beneficial to your patients – and your primary care practice! A Practical Guide to Joint & Soft Tissue Injection , 3rd Edition, helps you master the techniques that can provide optimal pain relief, save health care dollars, increase patient satisfaction, and enhance the doctor/patient relationship. This easy-to-understand, fully-illustrated text offers practical, evidence-based information on a wide variety of injection and aspiration techniques for common skin and musculoskeletal conditions. The interactive eBook that accompanies the print book includes dozens of videos to help you perfect your technique. Features: Hundreds of full-color illustrations help you identify landmarks and determine exactly how to proceed. An all-new chapter on injected anesthesia, including nerve blocks, brings you up to date in this key area. New coverage of inflammatory dermatoses, carpal tunnel syndrome, myofascial trigger points, and different approaches to the knee joint help you provide pain relief and improved function to a wide variety of patients. Comprehensive coverage includes a diverse group of musculoskeletal disorders, chalazions, keloids, warts, and occipital neuralgia, as well as the use of corticosteroids, viscosupplementation, and dry needling. Solid guidance in foundational principles covers anatomy and landmarks, when to refer, indications and contraindications, special medical conditions, equipment, complications, coding and billing, and much more. Helpful appendices provide consent forms, aftercare handouts, and information on documentation. Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, offering tablet, smartphone, or online access to: Dozens of step-by-step videos that show you exactly how to perform each injection Complete content with enhanced navigation Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION 2. FOUNDATION CONCEPTS Thoughtful Consideration Alternatives to Medication Management Understand Anatomy Identify Landmarks When to Refer to a Subspecialist Indications for Injections and Aspirations Contraindications to Injections and Aspirations Safety Synovial Fluid Analysis Special Medical Conditions Topical Anesthesia Local Infiltration Anesthesia Injectable Agents Corticosteroids Viscosupplementation Botulinum Toxin Other Equipment Technique Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Complications Aftercare Documentation of the Procedure Billing and Coding Informed Consent Evidence-based Medicine 3. SKIN ANESTHESIA  Direct Local Injection Field Block Local Injection Digital Nerve Block Facial Nerve Blocks Supraorbital and Supratrochlear Blocks Infraorbital Nerve Block Mental Nerve Block Mucosal Fold Block 4. SKIN AND SKIN STRUCTURES  Chalazion  Keloid Scar Common Warts Granuloma Annulare and Other Thin, Benign, Inflammatory Dermatoses Prurigo Nodularis and Other Thick, Benign, Inflammatory Dermatoses 5. HEAD AND NECK  Temporomandibular Joint  Greater Occipital Neuralgia  Cervical Strain and Sprain  6. UPPER EXTREMITIES  Subacromial Space Injection—Posterior Approach  Glenohumeral Joint—Posterior Approach  Glenohumeral Joint—Anterior Approach  Acromioclavicular Joint  Sternoclavicular Joint  Bicipital Tenosynovitis - Long Head  Cubital Tunnel Syndrome  Elbow Joint  Olecranon Bursitis  Lateral Epicondylitis  Medial Epicondylitis  Radial Nerve Entrapment  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome— Preferred Flexor Carpi Radialis (FCR) Approach   Carpal Tunnel Syndrome—Traditional Approach  Wrist Joint  de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis  Dorsal Wrist Ganglion Cyst  Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint  Metacarpophalangeal Joint  Trigger Finger  Digital Mucous Cyst 7. TRUNK  Myofascial Trigger Points  Suprascapular Neuropathy  Scapulothoracic Syndrome  Sacroiliac Joint  8. LOWER EXTREMITIES  Hip Joint—Preferred Lateral Approach  Hip Joint—Anterior Approach  Piriformis Syndrome  Meralgia Paresthetica  Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome  Hip Adductor Tendonitis  Knee Joint Injections Knee Joint—Preferred Lateral Suprapatellar Approach  Knee Joint— Lateral Midpatellar Approach Knee Joint— Anterior Medial and Anterior Lateral Approaches   Prepatellar Bursitis  Pes Anserine Bursitis  Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome  Tibialis Posterior Tendonitis  Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome  Ankle Joint—Anterior-Lateral Approach  Ankle Joint—Anterior-Medial Approach  Fibularis Brevis Tendonitis  Plantar Fasciitis  First Metatarsophalangeal Joint  Morton’s Interdigital Neuroma APPENDIX 1: CONSENT FOR NEEDLE ASPIRATION AND/OR INJECTION APPENDIX 2: ASPIRATION AND INJECTION AFTERCARE HANDOUT APPENDIX 3: MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION