Course: Five Minutes to Musculoskeletal Care | RCGP Learning

    • Back pain accounts for 3-7% of all primary care consultations and 70% of the population will experience significant back pain at some time in their lives. This screencast looks at the role of the GP in identifying those cases that need early assessment and input, and considers the psychological, physical and pharmacological aspects of management in line with NICE's updated guidance in 2016.

    • This screencast looks at the fibromyalgia syndrome, practical clues to the diagnosis and the updated American College of Rheumatology diagnostic criteria.

    • Acute gout is a common presentation in primary care. This screencast looks at the evidence-based management of acute gout, the drive to start urate lowering therapy earlier, and the need to tackle comorbidities to reduce cardiovascular risk.

    • Differentiating the conditions presenting with hip pain in primary care can be quite straightforward, when a few key features in the history and examination are assessed. This screencast particularly looks at the presentations of hip osteoarthritis, greater trochanteric pain syndrome, and referred back pain.

    • This screencast looks as the detection of inflammatory arthritis in primary care. It reviewes the clinical presentation, assesses the investigations that might be helpful, and emphasises the need to refer based on clinical assessment regardless of the results of investigations.

    • Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) tends to affect those over the age of 50, but can also present in an atypical fashion. This screencast looks at the presentation of PMR, making the diagnosis and initiating and monitoring treatment. 

  • Publication Date: June 2017

    Reviewed and Updated: November 2025

    • The 5 minute presentations were developed in partnership with Versus Arthritis.

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