Thursday, 6th September Sydney Spinal Symposium 2018

Conference Chair Ashish Diwan, Spine Service St George Hospital | University of New South Wales
Co-Chair Prof Allan Sturgess, Department of Rheumatology, St George Hospital, University of New South Wales

• Development of the Spinal Column - Gavin Chapman
• Genetics of the spinal disc in development and aging degeneration - Danny Chan

• Patients’ perspectives of primary care treatment for low back pain - Malene Ahern
• General medical practitioner perspectives on the use of an intervention aiming to decrease non-indicated imaging for low back pain - Hazel J Jenkins
• Predicting pain recovery in patients with acute low back pain: Updating and validation of a clinical prediction model - Tatiane da Silva

• Annular bulge following discectomy (for lumbar disc herniation) and concomitant replacement by a nucleus prosthesis - Uphar Chamoli
• Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation – Who is most at risk? - Ashraf Dower

• Degenerative Scoliosis – Natural History - Jose Vargas
• Identifying who to treat:  Classification and agreement of sagittal balance and lumbopelvic compensation in the adult spine. - Larry Cohen
• Utilizing laterally based approaches to the treatment of spinal deformity, a paradigm shift - Anthony Kwon

• Juxta fusion degeneration - Dynamic Stabilization  - Bill Sears

• What kind of exercise is most effective for chronic low back pain? A network meta-analysis.  - Daniel Belavy
• Ongoing Physical therapy in Low Back pain. How many patients respond to Spinal Cognitive and Motor Retraining (SCMR) and can we predict the responders? - Jose Vargas

• Burden and management of low back pain. What is recurrence and Why do they occur. - Manuela Ferreira

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION

• Prof Kent
• Prof Ferreira
• A Diwan

• Lumbar pain and its impact on movement - are movement sensors and an understanding of pain cognitions useful keys to advance spinal therapeutics? - Peter Kent
• A confirmatory factor analysis of the pain DETECT questionnaire for patients with low back pain - Sameer Mahajan and Sam Lapkin

• Bony Stress - Daniel Chepurin
• Biomechanics of Lytic Defect and Spondylolisthesis - Vivek Ramakrishna
• The natural history of pars lysis and progression to lytic spondylolisthesis, with a focus on radiological predictors of progression - Kyle A Sheldrick
• Newer developments in Surgical Management of Lytic Spondylolisthesis. - Ashish Diwan

• Prevention of neck pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Tarcisio F de Campos
• Validity of Sagittal and Axial Plane Metrics in the Assessment of Cervical Canal Stenosis on Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Keerthana Sritharan

• Lumbar Canal Stenosis - Pathology and Natural History - Xiaolong Chen
• Surgery for Spinal Stenosis (SUcceSS) – A randomised, placebo-controlled trial - Ian Harris

• The Spinal Disc Degeneration - Danny Chan
• Sestrin-Mediated Inhibition of Stress Induced Intervertebral Disc Degradation Through the Enhancement of Autophagy - Ji Tu
• Intradiscal Therapies - Justin Mowbray