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CME: Managing the Health of Your Aging Patient: Therapies That Could Help Improve Quality Of Life

Six Modules all together. Check it out!

CME: The Latest in the Diagnosis and Management of Nocturia

Earn up to 2 Mainpro+ credits. Don't delay, expires soon!

Upper Extremity Pain: Where's the pathology—Neck or Shoulder?

Andrew Trenholm MD, MSc, FRCSC et al.

Neck and shoulder disorders are among the leading causes of pain and disability.

Insufficiency Fractures of the Femur and Sacrum

Dr. M.S. Alam MD, MBBS, CCFP, FCFP

An insufficiency fracture is a subtype of stress fracture, which occurs in abnormally weakened bone.

The CORE Neck Tool: An Organized Approach to Neck Pain

Julia Alleyne BHSc(PT), MD, CCFP, Dip. Sport Med MScCH et al.

With the success of the Core Back Tool, the committee defining the Quality Based Pathway for Spine care and the OCFP concurrently recommended the development of a Neck Tool.

The Canadian Spine Surgeon’s Perspective: Avoiding Opioid Use in Spine Patients

Alexandra Stratton MD, MSc, FRCSC et al.

Opioid misuse in patients presenting to spine surgery clinics in Canada is a major problem.

Spinal Lesion: Benign or Malignant? When should you worry?

Raphaële Charest-Morin MD, FRCSC et al.

General practitioners are occasionally confronted to unknown lesions of the spine.

Abandoning Treatment Due to Age Alone

Michael Gordon MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin

When caring for older adults with comorbidities, especially those at the extreme upper limits of life…

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Chronic Neuropathic Pain in Primary Care—The Role of Neuromodulation

Philippe Magown MD CM, PhD, FRCSC

Neuropathic pain is a severe pain condition characterized by burning, tingling, or lancinating pain in the distribution of a nerve, dermatome, or sclerotome and affects patient function, quality of life, mood, and employment.

Planning for the Future: Expected and Unexpected

Michael Gordon MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin

For those of us who are planners, it seems perfectly natural to anticipate the possibilities of the future...

The Need for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening: A Wake-Up Call to Physicians

Colin M. Shapiro MBBCh, PhD, MRCPsych, FRCPC et al.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), where patients stop breathing numerous times during sleep, is a disorder linked to serious medical, socioeconomic, and psychological morbidity...