Friday, 9th September Sydney Spinal Symposium 2022

• Low Back Pain – From Guidelines to Precision Medicine - Ashish Diwan
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A diagnostic tool to measure the functional state of the cervical spinal cord in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy patients. - Alisha Wafa Sial
• MIC-1/GDF15 Overexpression is associated with increased functional recovery in traumatic spinal cord injury - Jo Gamble

• Machine learning model: predicting analytics for the management of lumbar degeneration disease - Morgan Giers

Presenters of even-numbered posters will be available to discuss their submission

• Compression and fatigue behavior of laser powder bed fusion additive manufactured graded NiTi gyroid-structures for load-bearing orthopaedic applications - Wenliang Chen
• Spine service Clinical Trial Unit: Integrating Clinical Care and Research - Neha Chopra
• Second opinions for spine surgery: a scoping review - Giovanni Ferreira
• Characteristics of baseline frequency data in spinal RCTs do not suggest widespread fraud - Manon M Levayer
• Endoscopic Vs microdiscectomy – a retrospective study  - Joseph Maalouly
• Fusion techniques of the Sacroiliac joint in traumatic and non-traumatic conditions - Kalaventhan Pathinathan
• Quantifying the biomechanical effects of posterior fixation in XLIF - Vivek A.S. Ramakrishna
• Radiographic evaluation of lumbar intervertebral disc height: an intra and inter-rater agreement and reliability study   - Stone Sima
• A multi-parametric MRI processing pipeline for paraspinal muscles - Moudrack MS Sjarief
• Intervertebral disc-on-a-chip: a precision-engineered platform for low back pain studies - Joanne Tipper
• Physiotherapy utilization, costs and return to work status following lumbar spine surgery: a retrospective analysis of workers compensation claims in Australia - Giovanni Ferreira
• Establishing an Australian Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Patient Registry - Nashwa Najib

• Towards radiation-free spine alignment synthesis with clinical validation - Teng Zhang
• Post Processing Of MRI scans can imporve LBP diagnosis - Kyle Sheldrick
• Australia's Medical Devices Regulatory Framework - Simon L Singer
• SUCCESS trail update - Manuela Ferreira
• Smart orthopaedic implants: A targeted approach for continuous postoperative evaluation in the spine - Vivek Ramakrishna
• Phase 1 AuDi trial update - Ashish Diwan
• Robotics in Spinal Surgery - John Choi

Presenters of odd-numbered posters will be available to discuss their submission

• What proportion of patients with chronic low back pain are prescribed versus use an opioid medicine? Systematic review and meta-regression of observational studies. - Stephanie Mathieson
• Intrathecal morphine injection in anterior lumbar and lateral lumbar spine surgery - Darweesh D Al Khawaja
• The association between pain scores and disc height change following discectomy surgery in lumbar disc herniation patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Xiaolong Chen
• Role of Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier in spinal disorders & Therapeutics  - Neha Chopra
• Microbiome and bone marrow metabolism dysbiosis in low back pain - Wentian Li
• Cooled radiofrequency ablation of the sacroiliac joint a retrospective series - Joseph Maalouly
• A clinically relevant 3D in vitro spinal cord injury model using biofabrication techniques - Maryam Alsadat Rad
• Radiological factors for predicting degenerative cervical myelopathy with increased intramedullary signal intensity based on x-ray and MRI - Christopher Saulys
• Inflammatory biomarkers in different locations in patients with low back disorder: systematic review protocol - Stone Sima
• The effectiveness of biofeedback for improving pain, disability and work ability in adults with neck pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Giovanni Ferreira
• 3D reconstruction of the lumbar spine using ultrasound images: Towards radiation-free lumbar facet joint injections - Haijun Zeng
• Obesity Back pain Evaluation Laparoscopic bariatric surgery and Imaging with X-ray and MRI study (OBELIX): A prospective observational cohort study - Froukje Koremans

• Healthcare disparities in culturally and linguistically diverse patients with low back pain - Qiuzhe Chen
• How and why transition zone in the intervertebral disc matters: new findings and old assumptions - Javad Tavakoli
• A content analysis of online information about the benefits and harms of spine surgery - Giovanni Ferreira
• Determining the applicability of research for the ageing population - Gem Chew
• Available Soon - Siobhan Schabrun

• A narrative review of the history and evidence for restorative neurostimulation for chronic mechanical low back pain - Ben Goss
• The thoracolumbar fascia and back pain - Alison M Slater
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of advice and education for the management of non-specific spinal pain - Caitlin MP Jones
• Smoking and tetramer tryptase+ Mast Cells accelerate intervertebral disc degeneration by inducing METTL14-mediated DIXDC1 m6 modification - Ji Tu

Join us for drinks at the ICC or take a walk on the Pyrmont Bridge before Dinner

Drinks are included in your registration 

This dinner will be held at the ICC and is included in the registration costs.