Resources for MSK
If you work for an ICS, PCN or provider organisation
- Ensure you have a co-production approach to your services. See top tips on co-production and ARMA’s working in partnership with patients page;
- Join the NHS Futures Best MSK Health forum;
- See the National Back Pain Pathway;
- The ARMA core offer for commissioning in line with the NHS long term plan for MSK;
- Watch the ARMA/NHSE good practice webinars;
- UK Chief Medical Officer’s Physical Activity Guidelines;
- See our MSK COVID-19 resources;
- See our Chronic Pain reports and recommendations;
- Workforce planning – see the breadth of musculoskeletal healthcare professionals available to support musculoskeletal services: ‘Workforce Planning Chart for MSK’;
- Sign up to our free, monthly e-newsletter;
MSK healthcare professionals
- Join the NHS Futures Best MSK Health forum;
- Make sure people with MSK know about peer support from patient groups.
- Moving Medicine for MSK pain conversations on activity and active hospitals resources;
- Watch the ARMA/NHSE good practice webinars;
- Sign up to our free, monthly e-newsletter;
GPs and other non-MSK specialist healthcare professionals
- Know the signs of less common MSK conditions. See the resources e.g. RCGP e-learning modules, and toolkits for less common MSK conditions.
- Join the NHS Futures Best MSK Health forum;
- Produced during the coronavirus pandemic, this guidance supports recognising serious pathology which requires emergency or urgent referral to secondary care in a patient who present with new or worsening musculoskeletal (MSK) symptoms;
- Moving Medicine for MSK pain conversations on activity and active hospitals resources;
- Watch the ARMA/NHSE good practice webinars;
- Sign up to our free, monthly e-newsletter;
Public Health professionals
- See Musculoskeletal health: 5 year prevention strategic framework and Public Health England’s website for infographics.
- See the PHE musculoskeletal conditions profile data
- Sign up to our free, monthly e-newsletter;
- Good practice webinars
People with bone, joint and muscle conditions (musculoskeletal conditions)
- Managing your bone, joint or muscle pain, see www.csp.org.uk/managing-pain
Our patient members’ organisations have helplines, tips, videos, directories and petitions.
- Arthritis Action: www.arthritisaction.org.uk
- CCAA Kids with Arthritis: www.ccaa.org.uk/
- Ehlers Danlos Support UK: www.ehlers-danlos.org
- Fibromyalgia UK: www.fmauk.org
- Hypermobility Syndromes Association: www.hypermobility.org
- National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society (NASS): nass.co.uk
- National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS): www.nras.org.uk
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica & Giant Cell Arteritis UK: www.pmrgcauk.com
- Psoriasis Association: www.psoriasis-association.org.uk
- Royal Osteoporosis Society: theros.org.uk
- Scleroderma & Raynaud’s UK (SRUK): www.sruk.co.uk
- UK Gout Society: www.ukgoutsociety.org/
- Versus Arthritis: www.versusarthritis.org
Employers
- Business in the community/Public Health England/ARMA toolkit.
Everyone
- Sign up to our free, monthly e-newsletter;
- Check out the recordings of our webinars;
- Become an ARMA Supporter to ensure we can continue to support good musculoskeletal health long into the future.