BSR/PCR Joint injection course
- How to manage regional musculoskeletal pain: principles and practice of articular and periarticular injection
If you are attending the Primary Care Rheumatology annual conference in York you can easily combine it with the Joint Injection course held at the same venue. PCR members will also receive a discount when booking the Joint Injection course.
The Joint Injection course will be largely workshop based allowing you to develop the skills to administer injections confidently.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this one-day course delegates will be able to:
- Evaluate a patient with regional musculoskeletal pain and determine the most likely differential diagnosis.
- Define a management plan for a patient with regional musculoskeletal pain.
- Analyse the evidence base for each treatment modality available.
- Decide when in the course of this illness you should consider a joint or periarticular injection and when or should this be repeated.
- Discuss the risks and benefits of articular and periarticular injection and who should be performing injections.
- Describe the surface anatomy and bony landmarks for injection of the knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle and foot.
- Perform articular and periarticular injections at the knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle and foot, and evaluate the outcome.
Who should attend?
Any professional treating patients with regional MSK pain; Rheumatologists and trainees, GPs and Registrars, GPWSIs, extended scope practitioners
