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MSK and Chronic Pain

Our one-day online MSK and Chronic Pain course is designed to give you a whole new set of skills, and revitalise your enjoyment of caring for patients with long term MSK conditions and chronic pain.

Upcoming live online events

  • Fri 7 Mar 2025 9.30am

What we cover

  • The science behind chronic pain and why all pain is felt in the brain
  • Skills to assess pain using a full range of biopsychosocial tools and how you can translate this assessment into supporting patients with self-care
  • Skills around promoting health behaviour change and patient activation
  • The 'bad boy' drugs opiates and gabapentinoids and how, when and whether we should be deprescribing
  • Peripheral, regional MSK issues involving case-based learning: shoulders, elbows, hands, hip, knee, foot and ankle problems
  • The MSK big three: back pain, osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis and ideas to take back to the practice.

What you get

Option to attend the live online event(s) which takes place during your subscription, for an interactive experience
Watch anytime during your subscription
6 hours teaching
Fully chapterised course so you can dip in and out of topics
1 year access to the course on demand to learn any time it suits you
Pick up where you left off and re-watch sections as you like

Red Whale Knowledge

Includes 1 year access to Red Whale Knowledge - our library of 900+ online written resources (if you already have a subscription, we'll extend your expiry date by 1 year)

More about Red Whale Knowledge

Learning the Red Whale way

We design our courses to be a little bit different to ones you might have booked or attended in the past!

  • Varied teaching styles to optimise engagement
  • Evidence based content and education tools enhance learning & delegate experience
  • Engaging content: stories, humour, cases, WhaleArt and more
  • Our presenters are practising GPs: they focus on getting learning into practice while understanding the realities of the day job!
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What our customers say about our courses

Developed by those who truly understand general practice and all its nuances & up to date evidence based presentation.
— GP, MSK and Chronic Pain course attendee
Amazing breadth of information in a relevant practical, user friendly and patient friendly form. Love the bits about communication! Really nice sense of humour too.
— GP, MSK and Chronic Pain course attendee

Ready to buy our MSK and Chronic Pain course?

Live Digital Course
Best Value
Red Whale Unlimited

£205

£420

Red Whale Knowledge access for 1 year 900+ online written
resources
900+ online written
resources
MSK and Chronic Pain on demand for 1 year
CPD tracking and FourteenFish integration
Access to any live-hosted MSK and Chronic Pain online events over a 1 year period
Hundreds of hours of short video bytes
Access to ALL Red Whale Online Courses
Optional add-on of MSK and Chronic Pain Live Printed Handbook

£90

£45

£90

£45