Ultrasound-guided musculoskeletal injections demand more than a picture book and more than a dense textbook. They demand a single, trustworthy system — from sonographic anatomy to the needle in the target.
Most references force a compromise. Picture-only atlases show you the anatomy but never teach the reasoning, the pharmacology, or the safety judgment behind the injection. Dense academic textbooks bury actionable technique under theory you can't use with a patient on the table. Multi-author volumes lurch between twenty writing styles, so the shoulder chapter and the knee chapter feel like different books. And the regenerative sections of most texts read like marketing — long on promise, short on honest evidence for platelet-rich plasma, prolotherapy, and orthobiologics. Clinicians are left stitching together three resources to do one procedure safely.
Textbook of Ultrasound-Guided Musculoskeletal Injections by Elvis Clarkston, MD, PhD, was built to end that compromise — a focused, evidence-based clinical system covering corticosteroid, viscosupplement, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection from the first joint aspiration to advanced regenerative technique.
It connects sonographic anatomy to clinical decision-making, walks you through every injection with step-by-step in-plane needle guidance, and treats regenerative medicine with the honesty the field is missing — telling you where PRP, prolotherapy, and cell-based biologics genuinely help and where the hype outruns the data, so you counsel patients with confidence instead of guesswork.
Inside this comprehensive musculoskeletal ultrasound injection guide:
- Systematic sonographic anatomy and injection technique for the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, hip and pelvis, knee, ankle and foot, and spine
- Image-guided injection and aspiration of joints, tendons, bursae, ligaments, and nerves, with needle placement, patient positioning, and procedural pearls for each site
- Needle-visualization skills — beam steering, hydrolocation, and anisotropy — so your tip is always in view
- Corticosteroid, local anesthetic, viscosupplement, and orthobiologic pharmacology, including particulate-versus-non-particulate safety decisions
- Deep coverage of regenerative medicine: platelet-rich plasma (PRP), bone marrow aspirate concentrate, and prolotherapy
- Advanced procedural techniques: barbotage, hydrodissection, percutaneous tenotomy, and high-volume injection
- Dedicated guidance for special populations: sports, rheumatology, pediatric, geriatric, and the anticoagulated or diabetic patient
- Board-style review questions and answers, key-point summaries, quick-reference dosing and needle cards, and full-color illustrations throughout
Written for sports medicine physicians, pain management specialists, physiatrists, rheumatologists, radiologists, orthopedic clinicians, primary care physicians with procedural practices, sonographers, and advanced practice providers who use — or are training to use — musculoskeletal ultrasound in daily patient care.
Written clinician-to-clinician, richly illustrated in full color, and grounded in evidence rather than hype, it gives you what the courses and the picture-books can't: a single, trustworthy source for safe, accurate, ultrasound-guided injection of joints, tendons, bursae, and nerves.
Stop guessing. Start seeing. Add this essential musculoskeletal injection atlas to your library today.
