Friday, 5th September Sydney Spinal Symposium 2025
Registration Opens
7:30AM - 8:15AM
Friday, 5th September
Acknowledgement to Country and Opening Remarks
8:15AM - 8:30AM
Friday, 5th September
Session 1 - Low Back Pain
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Friday, 5th September
Chairs: Joseph Orlando & Stone Sima
- Keynote Speaker Explain pain 2.0: reframing the problem and equipping people for recovery - Lorimer Moseley
- Role of Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: Results from an Age, Sex and BMI Matched Study. - Stone Sima
- Nociceptive pain assessed by the PainDETECT questionnaire may predict response to opioid treatment for chronic low back pain. - Victor Chen
Session 2 - Biomechanics
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Friday, 5th September
Chairs: Matthew Beard & William Parr
Sponsored by:
- Keynote Speaker - Beyond Neurons: The B Cell-IgG Axis as a Driver of Persistent Pain and a Source for Objective Blood-Based Biomarkers - Mark Hutchinson
- The effect of head-forward posture on risk of lower neck dislocation during head-first impacts: a dynamical computational and experimental investigation - Ryan D Quarrington
- Finite Element Analysis of Endplate Remodeling in Lumbar and Cervical Spinal Fusion - William Parr
Morning Tea & Poster Viewing
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Friday, 5th September
- Patient and General Practitioner Perceptions of Digital Decision Aids for Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study - Rodrigo RN Rizzo
- Conversational Agents to Support Pain Management: A Scoping Review - Filipe L Souza
- Clinical Observation, Management and Function Of low back pain Relief Therapies (COMFORT): A cluster randomised controlled trial protocol - Christina Abdel Shaheed
- Bridging the gap from evidence to practice: adaptation and implementation of a novel treatment for people with chronic low back pain. - Martjie Venter
- The transportability of the OPAL trial to a primary care setting in the United States - Harrison Hansford
- "From Pain to Empowerment" Case Study: A Multi-Systems Approach to Managing Persistent Cervical Neck Pain - Kieran B Doyle
- Evaluating the effect of financial incentives to general practitioners (GPs) on recruitment of people with low back pain with limited English proficiency: Study within a trial (SWAT) protocol. - Lisa Vizza
- The effect of goal-setting as a part of multi-component behavioural interventions on pain, disability, and physical activity in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Andrew R Natoli
- Implementation and Effectiveness of an Online Pain Education Program for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in the Brazilian Public Health System: A Hybrid Type III Randomized Controlled Trial - Bruno T Saragiotto
- A feasibility randomised controlled trial of digitally delivered interventions for people with chronic low back pain seeking care in general practices - Isha Mishra
- Effectiveness of painful versus non-painful exercise on patient-reported outcomes in adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Matt Jones
- Effectiveness of team-based primary care for the management of musculoskeletal conditions: a systematic review protocol - Isaac Searant
- Developing Pain Smart: Exploring what adolescents understand about pain and their preferences for learning about pain at school - Tie Yamato
- The feasibility of delivering and evaluating stratified care integrated with telehealth (‘Rapid Stratified Telehealth’) for patients with low back pain: a feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial - Andrew R Robert
- Development and co-design of a PAthway of CarE for people with chronic musculoskeletal conditions living in regional, rural and remote Australia using allied telehealth (PACE-RURAL). - Alla Melman
- Exploring physiotherapists' perspectives on implementing a prevention-based walking program in clinical practice for patients with recurrent low back pain. - Seong Kyeong Yeom
- A home-based self-directed EEG neurofeedback intervention for people with corneal neuropathic pain - Negin Hesam-Shariati
- MIcrobiome Impacts Surgical Outcomes – Comparison of Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis in Patients Undergoing Lumbar Microdiscectomy: The MISO Study. - Stone Sima
- Implementation of a virtual hospital model of care for low back pain (Back@Home) - Crystian Bitencourt Soares de Oliveira
- Are clinician characteristics associated with the effectiveness of interventions for the management of low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Stephen Sharp
- The Microbiome of the Cervical Intervertebral Disc: A Narrative Review of an Emerging and Controversial Field - Tharun Loku Galappaththige
- Mixed Pain in Low Back Pain: Clinical and Cognitive Correlations of Overlapping Mechanisms - Owen Zhou
- Comparison of Standalone vs. Unilateral Fixation vs. Bilateral Fixation for Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (LLIF) - Sindhu Sunkad
- Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and measurement properties of the Back pain Knowledge and beliefs Survey (BacKS) for the Brazilian population. - Leticia Correa
- Segmental versus global sagittal balance restoration in lumbar fusion; radiographic and clinical outcomes - William Parr
- The importance of bone growth through the cage graft window as opposed to bone on-growth - William Parr
- Exosomes from Oxidative Stress-Primed BMSCs Attenuate Intervertebral Disc Degeneration via miR-29a-3p/BMF-Mediated Mitophagy - Jun Zou
- The influence of screw fixation on VAS (back pain) scores; a systematic review of lumbar spinal fusion implants - William Parr
- Navigating the Learning Curve in Uniportal Endoscopic Spinal Surgery: Overcoming Complications and Strategies for Success - Prashanth J Rao
- Multifidus Muscle Degeneration and Its Association with Modic Changes Following Minimally Invasive Lumbar Surgery - Prashanth J Rao
- Sacroiliac joint fusion for treating lower back pain in patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: a literature review and case series - Hasan Jamali
- Stand-Alone Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion; A cohort study of patients treated with patient specific implants - William Parr
- Long-term effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Hazel Jenkins
- Why did a short course of opioid analgesia cause worse pain in the long term in patients with acute neck/back pain - Zhiwei Yang
- Incidence of Spine-Related Diagnoses in Danish Children: A Nationwide Registry-Based Study - Freja FGO Gomez Overgaard
- Reliability and validity of an in-house developed EEG headset for the treatment of chronic pain - Joshua JR Rawsthorne
- CO-OCCURRENCE OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS AND ACTIVITY LIMITATION IN ADULTS WITH CHRONIC BACK PAIN, BRAZILIAN NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEY 2019 - Rafael Z Pinto
- Co-designing a chronic pain education campaign with rural Australian communities (EQUiPP) - Hayley B Leake
- The immediate effect of swimming stroke on pain and spinal movement in people with chronic low back pain: a crossover study - Deborah Wareham
- Laying the foundations for a co-designed community pain education campaign in rural Australia: the EQUiPP Project. - Louise K Wiles
- MYNAH Registry Milestones: Mapping the Journey and the Road Ahead in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy - Nashwa Najib
- Physiotherapist-Led Spine Triage within Orthopaedic Consultation: A Pragmatic Evaluation - Aanirudh Kheterpal
- Testing of an instrument to assess the quality of systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies - Michael L Henry
- Assessing Immediate Paraspinal EMG Symmetry Changes Following Self-Corrective Exercise in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis - Teng Zhang
- 3d generation with app - Teng Zhang
- A Literature Review on the Attempts to Address the Diagnostic Delay of Axial Spondyloarthritis - Rhys Peeters
- Informing pain program design for CALD communities: Findings from a scoping review of group health interventions. - Ruth P. Appiah
Session 3 - Surgical outcomes
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Friday, 5th September
Chairs: Ryan Quarrington & Giovanni Ferreira
- Keynote Speaker - What can we glean from paediatric pain research? - Joshua Pate
- Predicting complications after elective spinal surgery for lumbar disc herniation and spinal stenosis: development and validation of multivariable prediction models - Giovanni Ferreira
- Fusion Conversion After Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation: A 3-Year Retrospective Analysis of Sacroiliac Joint Patients - Prashanth J Rao
Session 4 - Cost of care & Imaging
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Friday, 5th September
Chairs: Alisha sial & Caitlin Jones
- Keynote Speaker - “It’s just crucial to deal with the emotions as well as the pain” - Emotion Regulation as a Target in Chronic Pain Treatment - Nell Norman-Nott
- Cost-effectiveness of a telerehabilitation program for chronic spinal pain: a trial-based economic evaluation. - Bruno Tirotti Saragiotto
- Assessment of Cervical Cord Compression using Whole Spine Sagittal MRI Sequences: A Missed Opportunity in Spinal Imaging? - Rohil V Chauhan
Lunch and Poster Viewing
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Friday, 5th September
Session 5
2:00PM - 2:30PM
Friday, 5th September
Chair: Ashish Diwan
Lightning Talks
2:30PM - 3:15PM
Friday, 5th September
Chair: Ashish Diwan
- Treatment effect modifiers of graded sensorimotor retraining for people with chronic low back pain: a secondary analysis of the RESOLVE trial. - Martjie Venter
- Risk factors for persistent opioid use in older adults with chronic back pain: A systematic review - Sujita Narayan
- Effect of a walking and education program on duration and severity of recurrences of low back pain: A secondary exploratory analysis of the WalkBack trial. - Natasha C Pocovi
- Cognitive Outcomes in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) Patients from the MYelopathy NAtural History (MYNAH) Registry - Rupon Alam
- Paramedic management of back pain in a large Australian ambulance service - Simon Vella
- Unilateral Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy for Non-calcified Massive Lumbar Disc Herniation with Concomitant Bilateral Radiculopathy - Jun Zou
- Adults with chronic low back pain hold negative beliefs towards running: a mixed methods study - Christopher Neason
- Testing the predictive validity of five MRI-based grading systems for disc degeneration - Dean Esposito
Afternoon Tea
3:15PM - 3:45PM
Friday, 5th September
Session 6 - Pre-clinical & Pain
3:45PM - 4:45PM
Friday, 5th September
Chairs: Ryan O'Hare Doig & Prashanth Rao
- Keynote Speaker - Spinal Cord Stimulators: Patterns Of Care, Reintervention Rate, And Cost Per Admission Using Australian Private Health Insurer Data - Caitlin MP Jones
- Cognitive functional therapy with or without movement sensor biofeedback versus usual care for chronic, disabling low back pain (RESTORE): 3-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial - Mark Hancock
- Clinical Development of Intradiscal rhGDF-6 for Lumbar Disc Degeneration: Overview of Phase I, II, and III Studies - Neha Chopra
Conference Close
4:45PM - 5:00PM
Friday, 5th September
Poster Awards, Drinks & Substantial Canapes
5:00PM - 5:45PM
Friday, 5th September