Psychological support provided by GPs is an important factor for the maintenance of a positive sense of wellbeing for patients with persistent pain.

This article outlines an approach for understanding, explaining and managing chronic pelvic pain in women with a normal laparoscopy.

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.

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

This article describes the pathophysiology of pelvic congestion syndrome and outlines the symptomatology, the most efficient diagnostic pathway and the optimal treatment methods.

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.

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.

Chronic non-cancer pain management illustrates the case for reconceptualising chronic condition management using a generic lifestyle-based approach.

This paper considers common mechanisms underpinning chronic conditions and how these mechanisms might be targeted therapeutically in primary care.

Refugee women exhibit some of the highest rates of chronic pain, but the relationship between chronic pain and refugee-related challenges arising from migration trajectories remains unclear.

Complex spinal pain interdisciplinary assessment in a primary care setting shows reasonable long-term outcomes comparable to more intensive interventions.

It is estimated that 600,000 Australians currently self-medicate with cannabis, with chronic pain a leading indication for such use.

The aim of this article is to provide GPs with a review of the current literature, summarise a diagnostic pathway and propose a treatment algorithm for median arcuate ligament syndrome.

This paper explores a typical patient scenario in primary care to highlight evidence-based approaches for challenging aspects of management, such as imaging and pain management.