Thursday, 10th September Sydney Spinal Virtual Symposium 2020
Welcome to the Sydney Spinal Symposium 2020 - Day 1
1:00PM - 1:05PM
Thursday, 10th September
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Session 1: Back Pain and Service Delivery
1:05PM - 2:35PM
Thursday, 10th September
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Sponsored by:
- Insights on low back pain in the emergency department - Chris Maher
- TEXT4myBACK – A text message intervention to improve function in people with low back pain: a pilot study - Carolina Gassen Fritsch
- Current service delivery in a hospital neurosurgical clinic for patients with spinal pain: A retrospective file review - Michelle A Hancock
- Insights and frontiers on optimising and integrating care across health systems for chronic spinal disorders - Christopher Williams
Virtual Tea Break
2:35PM - 2:50PM
Thursday, 10th September
Sponsored by:
Session 2: Molecules-n-Cells in Degeneration. Adolescent Scoliosis
2:50PM - 4:20PM
Thursday, 10th September
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Sponsored by:
- Metabolic alterations in Osteoarthritis and therapeutic implications - Indira Prasadam
- The Role of Microbiome in chronic Low Back Pain - Wentian Li
- The interaction between mast cells and smoking in intervertebral disc generation - Ji Tu
- Insights and Frontiers in the management of Adolescent Scoliosis - Brian Hsu
E Posters - Diagnostics Scoliosis, Discectomy
4:20PM - 5:20PM
Thursday, 10th September
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Sponsored by:
- Predictive analytics for the management of lumbar disc herniation - Allen Lu
- Clinicians’ perceptions around discectomy surgery for lumbar disc herniation: a survey of orthopaedic and neurosurgeons in Australia and New Zealand - Xiaolong Chen
- Skip-inception U-Net for bony feature segmentation using ultrasound imaging for scoliosis assessment - Steve Ling
- Accurate body appearance detections and “non-radiation” X-ray synthesis using artificial intelligence and depth-sensing technologies - Teng Zhang
- Bone Remodelling Signal Changes in the Endplates Following Lumbar Discectomy: A Finite Element Modelling Study - Alessandro G. Larosa
- Diffusion tensor imaging in the lumbar spine – a single centre experience. - Kyle A Sheldrick