14 Sep 2007
GPs should look beyond physical symptoms when diagnosing patients with musculoskeletal problems...of musculoskeletal conditions. Conditions such as arthritis and back pain account for up to a third of all GP ...
patient can do rather than on what they cannot when diagnosing musculoskeletal conditions, according ...
is the attitude of many GPs that a musculoskeletal disorder sufferer must be 100 per cent before return to work ...
Opportunities to slash repeat consultations and improve outcomes for patients with musculoskeletal...Around a fifth of all adults in the UK consult their GP with musculoskeletal problems and chronic pain each year, accounting for an estimated 10.1 million visits to surgeries. With an ageing population, these figures are likely to rise.
Musculoskeletal problems are also the second most common reason after ...
A GP-led musculoskeletal service has improved waiting times and outcomes and the model it uses...as a GP you feel you ve no input really over what happens.
Musculoskeletal services Dr Warburton said CCGs themselves must also begin to talk to GPs about local needs in musculoskeletal services. For example, in my area, there are lots of people with chronic pain, she said. GPs have no pathways ...
31 Mar 2006
| by Tom Simonite
GPs should continue to refer patients with musculoskeletal problems to chiropractors or osteopaths...NICE s draft guidance on stabilisation procedures for low back pain state that: Chiropractic intervention and posture training can limit episodes of acute pain. But a review of 16 previous reviews ...
studies on back pain, neck pain, non-spinal pain, primary and secondary dysmenorrhoea, infantile colic ...
24 Mar 2006
A single injection of bisphosphonate can eliminate the painful symptoms of Paget's disease
27 Jan 2006
An epidural injection of steroids and local anaesthetics cuts pain in the acute phase of herpes zoster infection (pictured), but does not prevent long-term postherpetic neuralgia, a Dutch study of 598 shingles patients found. Half were given standard therapy and half had an additional epidural injection ...
26 Mar 2010
NICE has published the first national clinical guideline for treating neuropathic pain....and the capacity in which neuropathic pain can be successfully treated in non-specialist healthcare settings.' He ...
drugs for GPs to prescribe for neuropathic pain, which is estimated to affect 1 to 2 per cent of adults ...
cent of all patients with neuropathic pain are given medication to manage their pain, so ...
10 Mar 2006
GPs can now calculate the expected long-term outcome of patients' shoulder pain using clinical...The rules are based on an analysis of 587 patients who presented with shoulder pain. The patients underwent a physical examination that recorded the mobility and pain felt in the shoulder and neck ...
could predict the patients who would still be in pain much later. They used the results to draw up score ...
01 Mar 2004
of the exhibits in the museum's Pain, Pus and Blood exhibition, he shows his nine-year-old niece Ellie how
08 Dec 2006
less painful if performed while watching TV (Arch Dis Child 2006; 91: 1,015 7). ...
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