Click to view the profile of Dr Tony JewellBack pain is a big problem for Wales. There is a cost to individuals, which can include physical and mental ill health and unemployment, and there is a wider financial cost to the economy in Wales.
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Juliet Gamlin
Advice for health professionals
Welsh Backs aims to provide support to health professionals to help you deal with patients who present with back pain. This sections offers you advice and access to online resources to support the consultation, including an interactive desk aid.
Healthy Working Wales - A new online health and work resource and advice centre for primary care is now available. The centre provides access to learning modules, specialist advice and desk aids on health and work issues. It also hosts the Welsh Backs interactive desk aid for managing patients with acute low back pain. (To access the system, click here.)
A hard copy desk aid is also available, and although the information is not new, it provides a useful , evidenced based aide memoir.
Download the GP desk aid - Support for your patients Management of acute mechanical low back pain... Size: [94 KB] File Type: [.pdf]
Free copies of the "Back Book" are available to order online to support your patient's recovery and management of back pain copies can be ordered from here.
You can also signpost your patients to our website (www.welshbacks.com) for more information on how they can self manage their condition.
Click to view the profile of Dr Tony JewellBack pain is a big problem for Wales. There is a cost to individuals, which can include physical and mental ill health and unemployment, and there is a wider financial cost to the economy in Wales.
