Specialists in musculoskeletal medicine have particular expertise in the diagnosis and management of painful conditions involving the skeletal structures.
These practitioners understand and have trained in techniques as diverse as manual therapy and exercise through to complicated spinal injection procedures.
Spinal injections can be used as a tool to help with the diagnosis of the cause of a person's pain. They are also used to treat various painful spinal conditions. These injections are often performed under fluoroscopy - that is - with the use of an x-ray machine that is movable, allowing the x-ray to beam directly onto the part where the injection is meant to be directed. Examples of such injections can be found on the ISIS injection web-site.
Evidence-Based Management of Acute Musculoskeletal Pain. Recently members of the AFMM were involved in the Australian Government released Guidelines on the management of acute musculoskeletal pain.
Click here to download Evidence-based Management of Acute Musculoskeletal Pain (1,324 KB pdf).
