Ultrasound imaging & guidance for Musculoskeletal Interventions in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Chapter 13 Muscle Injections for Cervical Dystonia

With 55 pertinent videos, this book is the 3rd product in the ‘PRM arsenal’ for US. After ‘Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine’ published in 2014 (mainly for beginners), ‘Sonographic Atlas for Common Musculoskeletal Pathologies was published in 2017. In that project, we briefly aimed to ‘accompany’ our colleagues in their daily clinical practice as they started to use US, mainly for diagnostic purposes. Needless to say, US plays a paramount role during musculoskeletal interventions i.e. not only for precise guidance but also for prompt clinical decision making in advance. This is, by far, the reason why we have put equal emphasis on imaging and guidance in this project. Hence, instead of the standard ‘US-guided intervention’, we prefer the state-of-the-art ‘US guides the intervention’. In this sense, trying to include as many musculoskeletal procedures as possible, we have put our ‘extra spin’ in this textbook. A few examples would be suture injections, radiofrequency ablations, shockwave applications, or minor surgeries, etc. Lastly, and above all, we believe that it is US itself that pushes us ‘off the scale’.