This article describes an approach to the assessment and management of the common presentations of acute cervical spine pain.

This issue of AJGP examines musculoskeletal conditions – how these cause pain and how to manage the multitude of ways in which these impairments affect the lives of our patients.

Noncardiac chest pain is a cause of significant morbidity and can be responsible for a high personal cost and healthcare burden.

The symptom burden and care needs for patients with end-stage, non-malignant illnesses are similar to those of patients with advanced cancer.

This article investigates the prevalence of chronic pain in a rural setting and the use of specialist pain clinics and examines factors associated with well-managed pain.

This article aims to improve general practitioners’ knowledge of a specific group of exercise-related conditions that occur in the shin region.

Buprenorphine–naloxone is well tolerated by patients with chronic pain, and has the potential to improve pain scores and affective symptoms.

The primary care physician plays a pivotal part in the identification and management of idiopathic frozen shoulder, with the vast majority of patients responding to conservative management.

Cancer pain is one of the most common and problematic symptoms faced in palliative care.

This study assesses the influence of baseline body mass index and baseline knee pain on improvements in patients participating in a weight loss program for knee osteoarthritis.

General practitioners should be aware that physical activity might exacerbate symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy when encouraging their patients to be active.

This article discusses three common presentations of foot pain following exercise: stress fractures, plantar fasciitis and arthritis.

It is reasonable to consider including exercise-based services in the care team to enable patients with non-specific chronic low back pain to transition to self-management.

Many challenges exist in providing best-evidence treatments that promote an active approach facilitating self-efficacy and physical activity, and align with a contemporary understanding of pain.

Comorbidities, multimorbidity and frailty are increasingly becoming a major focus of care as a result of the ageing population of people with human immunodeficiency virus.