Primary Care Guide to Musculoskeletal Injections: A Step-by-Step Manual for Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Urgent Care - Softcover

Clarkston MD,PhD, Elvis; McCraney, MD RMSK, Joshua Y.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798194562886

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

A landmark-guided injection manual built for how primary care actually works — no ultrasound, no guesswork, no filler.

Musculoskeletal pain walks into your office every single day. And every time it does, you're stuck with the same bad choice: refer out and make the patient wait weeks for relief you could have delivered today, or reach for a guide that gives you steps without the reasoning — so the moment a patient's anatomy doesn't match the diagram, you're on your own.

Most injection manuals split into two useless extremes. The bullet-point field guides strip out the why, leaving you to improvise when things don't go exactly as pictured. The comprehensive specialist atlases assume ultrasound equipment and training your office doesn't have. Neither one was written for a family medicine, internal medicine, or urgent care visit.

This one was.

Primary Care Guide to Musculoskeletal Injections is the field manual for clinicians who want to inject with real confidence — not memorized motions, but the anatomy, the clinical reasoning, and the evidence behind every needle placement, taught specifically for landmark-guided technique. No ultrasound required. No specialist referral required. Just the skill, built correctly.

What's inside:

• 18 complete procedures across 8 regions — shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, hip, knee, ankle, and foot — covering the injections that actually fill a primary care schedule
• Real clinical reasoning in every chapter, not just steps: clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, relevant anatomy, and the evidence behind each technique, so you know why before you know how
• Honest, evidence-graded guidance — where the research shows a technique works short-term but not long-term, or where experts disagree, this book tells you plainly instead of overselling. You'll never be caught giving a patient a promise the evidence doesn't back
• Captioned procedural photography and anatomical figures for every technique, showing exact positioning, landmarks, and needle trajectory
• A quick-reference box for every procedure — difficulty level, patient position, approach, and needle selection, visible at a glance
• A complete practical foundations section — patient selection and informed consent, medication and complication management, and documentation and coding — so the book supports the whole visit, not just the needle
• Written directly for family medicine, internal medicine, and urgent care clinicians, and the NPs and PAs working alongside them

This isn't a book that hands you a diagram and wishes you luck. It's the reasoning a specialist would give you if they were standing next to you — anatomy explained, evidence graded honestly, and every technique built for the equipment you already have.

Stop referring out the injections you could be doing yourself. Buy now and start your next patient visit with the confidence this book gives you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798194562886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 121