Thursday, 19th September
Sydney Spinal Symposium 2019
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Thursday, 19th September
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7:30AM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 19th September
Welcome and Introduction
8:00AM - 8:05AM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Session 1: Clinical Outcomes
8:05AM - 9:20AM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Lumbar Pain: Conceptual framework for developing management principles
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Paul Hodges
Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation
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Saeed Kohan
Rates, costs and outcomes of spine surgery in a Workers' Compensation cohort, 2010-2015
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Adriane Lewin
Bracing treatment for adults with scoliosis
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Benjamin T Brown
Effectiveness of treatments to decrease thoracic hyperkyphosis: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
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Hazel Jenkins
Morning Tea
9:20AM - 9:50AM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.9 + C4.10
Session 2: Molecular Therapies
9:50AM - 11:20AM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8
Chair: Ashish Diwan
The Human Microbiota - What Is It - How May It Be Related To Back Pain?
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Georgina Hold
Vitamin D and the Spine: Could the “Sunshine Hormone” alter spinal disc disease and improve back pain?
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Christian Girgis
The proteomic landscape of young and aged lumbar intervertebral disc
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Vivian Tam
Role of Sirtuins and Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) in spine health and back pain
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Abhirup Das
Session 3: Free Paper Session
11:30AM - 12:25PM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Prevention of low back pain
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Mark Hancock
A triage physiotherapist can improve efficiency and quality of care for patients with spinal pain referred to ambulatory care surgical clinics at Royal North Shore Hospital
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Trish Schlotfeldt
A dissection investigation of human lumbar spine zygapophyseal (facet) joint meniscoids
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Ross Partington
MIC-1/GDF15 overexpression is associated with increased functional recovery in traumatic spinal cord injury.
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Jo Gamble
Lunch and Posters
12:25PM - 1:45PM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.9 + C4.10
What walking tests should be used for patients with neurogenic claudication
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David B Anderson
Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Conservative Care for Pregnancy-related Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis
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Lingxiao Chen
Complication rates of different discectomy techniques for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation
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Xiaolong Chen
‘Buy-in’ for back pain, does individualisation matter?
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Mitchell Gibbs
What are the attitudes and beliefs of exercise-based practitioners toward chronic low back pain in Australia?
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Mitchell Gibbs
Radiological evaluation of cervical spine degeneration from cord signal changes
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Sara SK Kim
A biomechanical comparison of two common patterns of lytic spondylolisthesis
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Vivek A.S Ramakrishna
Decay Variance - A new MRI technique for Diagnosing Disc Degeneration
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Kyle A Sheldrick
Revisiting the Paraspinal approach: anatomic description of a novel structure to gain access to far-lateral disc herniations
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Jose Vargas
Are physiotherapists choosing wisely? A systematic review of physiotherapy treatment choices for low back pain
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Joshua R Zadro
Computational analysis on the influence of facet tropism in fixation strategies and implants selection for spinal reconstructive surgery
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Teng Zhang
The effect of GDF6 in reducing intervertebral disc degeneration and inflammation-related pain in a rat model
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Haowen Cui
Session 4: Osteoporosis
1:45PM - 3:00PM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Using evidence to improve management of acute low back pain
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James Mcauley
OP and Back Pain - drugs that a GP should know and Drugs a Surgeon Should Learn about
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Christopher White
Vertebroplasty for severely painful acute vertebral fractures
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william clark
When a surgeon touches and feels soft bone - My strategies with Cement and Screws
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Ali Ghahreman
Osteoporosis - Basics and
in vivo
imaging of the bone chewers
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Michelle McDonald
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:25PM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.9 + C4.10
Session 5: New Devices and Clinical Trial Updates
3:25PM - 4:45PM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Novel Highly Bioactive 3D Printed Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration
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Hala Zreiqat AM
Surgery for Spinal Stenosis (SUcceSS) – progress report
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Ralph Stanford
The AUDI Trial Update
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Ashish Diwan
Disc degeneration- normal aging/pathological changes?
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Helena Brisby
Poster Awards and Closing Remarks
4:45PM - 4:55PM
Thursday, 19th September
Meeting Room C4.8