Managing joint pain in primary care

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Palmer, Trish ^a   Toombs, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BEN GAY; CAPSAICIN; CHONDROITIN; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GLUCOSAMINE; HYALURONIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; LAXATIVE; LIDOCAINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; SALICYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; STEROID; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ABNORMAL SENSATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADD ON THERAPY; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC NEPHROPATHY; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTHROGRAPHY; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BURNING SENSATION; CAST APPLICATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EARLY INTERVENTION; ERYTHEMA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INFLAMMATION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SWELLING; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; KIDNEY PAPILLA NECROSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE SPASM; MYALGIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROTECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REST; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SALICYLISM; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SPLINTING; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; STINGING SENSATION; SYMPTOM; SYNOVITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TENDON RUPTURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; JOINT; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TIME;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ALGORITHMS; ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHRALGIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; JOINTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NARCOTICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21644472218     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: 15448770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.17.suppl_1.s32     Document Type: Review

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