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Research
General practitioners should be aware that physical activity might exacerbate symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy when encouraging their patients to be active.
Clinical
This paper provides an overview of exercise care in general practice to support sustained solutions for patients living with chronic disease.
This paper aims to provide GPs with the tools to perform a basic exercise assessment with children and adolescents and an understanding of the core principles of exercise prescription.
This article discusses three common presentations of foot pain following exercise: stress fractures, plantar fasciitis and arthritis.
This article focuses on the assessment and management of sport-related concussion in general practice, including guidance for returning patients to sport.
Clinical challenge
These questions are based on the Focus articles in this issue.
Editorial
AJGP launches a series of papers that explore aspects of the role of the humanities in medicine, and specifically in general practice, and we take this opportunity to call for papers.
Letters
Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.
This article aims to describe recent epidemiological trends of syphilis infection in Australia, including demographics in which infection rates are rising, such as women of reproductive age.
Case Study
This is a case study on toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Furuncular myiasis is a condition caused by the infestation of skin by fly larvae leading to boil-like lesions.
A man, aged 31 years, presented with a five-day history of worsening sore throat and a mixed macular–vesicular rash on his hands.
Australian Immunisation Register data are increasingly being used to assess vaccination rates and assist public health practitioners to target interventions to improve these rates.
In partnership with an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health service, this study explored the use of a machine learning tool to identify high-needs patients.
Viewpoint
Current medical practice includes a combination of what history tells us is appropriate and scientific explanation can confirm. Everyday practice requires both sources of guidance.