Practical Guide to Joint and Soft Tissue Injection and Aspiration, A: An Illustrated Text for Primary Care Providers

Expanded and updated for its second edition, this practical illustrated guide explains the rationale and step-by-step procedures for joint and soft tissue injections and aspirations.

The detailed descriptions provide inside help you need to understand the critical steps in each procedure, as well as the rationale behind them, helping you treat a variety of common musculoskeletal conditions with confidence. Only the most essential information is included, so the facts you need are always at your fingertips.

The text will enable primary care physicians to master these effective techniques for treating a variety of common skin and musculoskeletal conditions. Full-color illustrations help practitioners identify anatomic landmarks and demonstrate how to perform each technique. This edition covers many alternative techniques and several new procedures, including ultrasound-guided injections, eyelid injections for cysts, nerve blocks for headaches, procedures for the hip, scapula joint injections, and temporomandibular joint procedures.

• LWW Doody’s Core Title Collection 2012( Prod-11178)
• LWW Medical Book Collection 2010( Prod-5544)
• LWW Doody's Core Title Collection 2011( Prod-10037)

• Author/Editor: McNabb, James W.
• ISBN/ISSN: 9780781796064
• Specialty: Primary Care/Family Medicine/General Practice
• Language:English
• Edition: 2nd
• Pages: 224
• Illustrations: 119
• Year: 2009