[Osteoarthritis: Degenerative changes or adaptive changes? Brief pain advice in primary care].

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease and is the most common joint problem worldwide. It is considered a serious disease due to the presence of pain and reduced functional capacity. Moreover, there are no disease-modifying drugs or curative treatment at present; the basic or first-line treatment is non-pharmacological, based on education and physical exercise.

[Unhelpful believes about pain. Brief pain advice in primary care].

In chronic non-oncological pain, there is a gap between the recommendations and the usual clinical practice. To improve this situation, it is essential to address unhelpful beliefs about pain in patients and health professionals. We address cultural beliefs such as thinking that pain means damage to the tissue where it is felt, that pain originates in the area where it is perceived, that it is important to rest for the tissues to heal, or that drugs and surgery are the best treatments for pain.