Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound , 1st ed. 2023 A Self-Study, Protocol-Based Approach

This book is a quick start guide that equips students and professionals with musculoskeletal ultrasound image acquisition basics. Written in plain language, it focuses on the common, clinically relevant conditions diagnosable by musculoskeletal ultrasound. With many verbal and illustrative mnemonics, images, and whimsical illustrations, the manual provides many different methods to remember complicated anatomy and examination protocols.

Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound teaches a protocol-based approach designed to help people understand why and how we perform musculoskeletal ultrasound studies. Each chapter covers a different body part and starts with basic anatomy and the clinical questions we want an ultrasound examination of that body part to answer. The protocols within each chapter tell the student precisely how and where to move the probe to obtain and optimize images. It demonstrates what a normal sonographic image should look like and explains what dynamic or structural issues would be abnormal in certain clinical circumstances. The protocol is a checklist that can be practiced on a partner or the reader themself. Chapters also discuss pathologic entities discernable on ultrasound, pitfalls to avoid, and imaging tricks of the trade.

This manual is invaluable for students and practicing clinicians in rheumatology, orthopedics, physiatry, neurology, sports medicine, advanced practice, and sonography.

Introduction- Getting Started -

Volar Wrist

Dorsal Wrist

Hand Arthropathy (synovitis, cartilage/bone erosion, crystal deposition, enthesitis, tenosynovitis.)

Fingers

Elbow (4 subsections)

-anterior elbow

posterior elbow

 -lateral elbow

-medial elbow

Shoulder

Ankle/Foot (4 subsections)

posterior/inferior heel

medial ankle

lateral ankle

dorsal ankle

Toes/forefoot

Knee (4 subsections)

-anterior knee

-posterior knee

-lateral knee

-medial knee

Hip (4 subsections)

-anterior hip

-posterior hip

-lateral hip

-medial hip

Crystal disease

Enthesopathy

Mark H. Greenberg, MD, RMSK, RhMSUS

Rheumatologist

Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine

Columbia, SC, USA

Alvin Lee Day, MD, RMSK, RhMSUS

Rheumatologist

Columbia VA Health Care System

Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Columbia, SC, USA

Suliman Alradawi, MD 

Rheumatologist, Illustrator 

Advocate Christ Medical Center

Advocate Medical Group 

Chicago, IL, USA

Focuses on the common, clinically relevant conditions diagnosable by musculoskeletal ultrasound

Teaches beginners and intermediate musculoskeletal ultrasound students how to perform complete ultrasound exams

Uses whimsical illustrations and verbal and illustrative mnemonics to aid recall