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ROLES OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS IN OSTEOARTHRITIS DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

Alaa Abdulhameed Aziz, Ebtihaj Hamdoon Alqari, Hussain Ali Khubrani, Ahmed Mosalem Alatawi, Mohamed Abdulhameed Aziz, Malak Eid Albalawi

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a considerable chronic illness and a common presentation in every day practice. GPs are well placed to supply long term care in patients with OA, including diagnosis, patient training and assistance, stipulation of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments and suitable recommendation. In this review we discuss of all of this steps. Comprehensive search method was conducted using several electronic databases including; Medline/PubMed, and Embase, for relevant articles concerning the Osteoarthritis (OA) in family practice, which were published up to June, 2019. Patients with OA should be given with information by general practitioners (GPs) concerning their condition and advised concerning appropriate assistance groups. The advancement of a management strategy should be tailored to the private patient's conditions and preferences, as well as the evidence of performance for specific interventions. Multidisciplinary collaboration enables the patient to access the wide range of nonpharmacological interventions used in OA treatment.

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