Friday, 29th September Sydney Spinal Symposium 2023

• Title coming soon - Claire Jones
• Pharmacological treatments for low back pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews - Aidan G Cashin
• Effectiveness of Cognitive Functional Therapy for Reducing Pain and Disability in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Jack JD Devonshire
• Adding pain science or ergonomics messages to guideline advice does not increase feelings of reassurance in people with acute low back pain: a randomised experiment - Giovanni Ferreira

• NUDG-ED: A randomised trial using behavioural nudges to reduce low-value care in Emergency Department clinical practice - Gemma Altinger
• Non-pharmacological and non-surgical treatments for low back pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews   - Michael Ferraro
• Low back pain care in 32 low- and middle-income countries - Saurab Sharma
• Radiological Factors Associated with Increased Intramedullary Signal Intensity Based on X-ray and MRI – Implications in our understanding of Degenerative Spondylomyelopathy - Alisha Wafa Dr Sial
• A scoping review on swimming for low back pain - Deborah M Wareham
• A qualitative study of participant perspectives of a walking program for preventing low back pain recurrences - Natasha C Pocovi
• Opioid analgesics for Osteoarthritis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Christina CA Abdel Shaheed
• Proposed objective scoring algorithm for assessment and intervention recovery following surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis based on relevant gait metrics from wearable devices: the Gait Posture index (GPi) - Ralph J Mobbs
• Socioeconomic Status and Race Do Not Influence Inpatient Opioid Use in One-Level Posterior Lumbar Fusions for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis - Lauren Barber
• Characterising the pathological gait signatures of degenerative lumbar spine diseases using inertial wearable sensors: an observational study - Lianne Koinis
• Is Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy being Missed in Primary Healthcare? - Rohil Chauhan

• Genetics, progression and biology of intervertebral disc degeneration - Danny Chan
• In subjects with back and leg pain, does Neuropathic Pain exclusively correlate to neuronal compression?  A correlation study of and corresponding MRI and x-Ray findings     - Stone Sima
• Clinimetric evaluation of the painDETECT questionnaire: A tool used to differentiate nociceptive versus neuropathic pain in the context of the lower back - Zachary Gan
• Low back pain of disc, sacroiliac joint, or facet joint origin: a diagnostic accuracy systematic review   - Christopher S Han

All lightning talks are also poster presentations and will be available to view throughout the day at morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and the poster viewing/networking reception.

• SpineQ 3D: The fully automated 3D quantitative assessment of lumbar spine - Teng Zhang
• Is a twelve-week running program appropriate for people with chronic low back pain? Efficacy and feasibility data from a randomised controlled trial - Christopher Neason
• 3D Spine model synthesis based on the back geometry - Teng Zhang
• The comparative effectiveness of lumbar fusion surgery and spinal decompression surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: protocol for a target trial emulation   - Harrison J Hansford
• The Association Between Inflammatory Biomarkers and Low Back Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  - Stone Sima

• Not available - Ashish Diwan
• Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for sciatica: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials - Giovanni Ferreira
• Spinal cord stimulation for low back pain - Adrian C Traeger

• Gut microbiome may predict spine surgery outcome: A pilot study - Stone SS Sima
• Influence of BMI on disability outcomes in Spinal Endoscopic Surgery: a cohort study - Froukje Koremans
• Halo traction evaluation of Cranio-cervical instability in hereditary connective tissue disorder patients: Case series - Charmian Stewart
• Randomized placebo-controlled trial of opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain – the OPAL trial - Caitlin Jones
• Use of intra-operative 3D fluoroscopy during open posterior instrumented lumbar spine fusions is associated with an increased risk of infection - Lauren Barber

• The international standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury – essentials for orthopaedic surgeons and spine researchers - Lisa Harvey
• Prevalence of serious spinal pathology: clinical setting matters - Alla Melman
• Pseudo-registration of spine trials and their outcomes - Manon MS Levayer

• Improvement of trunk muscle endurance in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis treated with ScoliBrace and the ScoliBalance exercise approach to scoliosis - Juan Du Plessis
• Determining the effectiveness and feasibility of a virtual hospital model of care for low back pain - Alla Melman
• Cooled radiofrequency ablation of the sacroiliac joint a retrospective series - Prashanth Rao
• Endoscopic lumbar discectomy early results and complications an Australian perspective - Prashanth JV Rao
• The MYelopathy NAtural History (MYNAH) Registry: Protocol for Australian registry - Nashwa Najib