Designed to facilitate learning and improve patient care, this volume contains over 300 illustrations that pinpoint exact locations and techniques for injections.

For some time now, C-arm fluoroscopy-guided spinal injections have been performed widely for both the diagnosis and management of spinal and paraspinal pain. Despite this common use, many residents and pain fellows do not receive any training in the anatomy of the vertebral column as it relates to radiographic imaging, nor do they receive training in fluoroscopic imaging. While books already exist on the subject, they only show the final needle position and offer very limited instruction.

Handbook of C-Arm Fluoroscopy-Guided Spinal Injections provides residents and fellows in pain management and diagnosis with the illustrated step-by-step guide that they have always needed. Based on a lengthy study of the relationships between skeletal models, the matching fluoroscopic image, and desired needle placement in the cervical, lumbar, and sacral spinal regions, the text recreates those images that effectively demonstrate the relationships between the angle of the x-ray beam and the spinal column.

Handbook of C-Arm Fluoroscopy-Guided Spinal Injections carefully describes fluoroscopic imaging and spinal anatomy as they relate to spinal injections. Designed to educate the student and assist the professional in the field, this volume:

• instructs in the basic tenets of radiation safety
• includes patient positioning as well as C-arm fluoroscope position
• describes related anatomic structures on the spine
• shows incorrect, as well as correct, needle placements illustrated from different views of the spine