Scientific program
 

08:00 – 08:30 Registration and coffee
08:30 – 09:00 General Assembly (Members only)

Plenary sessions (with simultaneous translations Dutch <-> French)
 

09:00 - 09:25  Management of low back pain patient at low risk of chronicity,
                       Jacques Vanderstraeten (Brussels)
 

09:25 – 09:50  Our sixth sense and low back pain, Simon Brumagne (Leuven)
 

09:50 – 10:25   Update in interventional pain management for low back pain,
                       Koen Van Boxem & Jan Van Zundert (Genk)
 

10:25 – 10:55   Coffee break
 

10:55 – 11:20    Low back pain and surgery: a love-hate relationship, Bart Depreitere (Leuven)
 

11:20 – 11:45     Neuromodulation in a multidisciplinary approach: Results of three years of data
                       collection and chronic follow-up, Lisa Bernaerts (Antwerp)
 

11:45 – 12:15     Multidisciplinary management of low back pain: what role for exercise and
                       physical activity? Guillaume Léonard (Canada)
 

12:15 – 12:30    BPS Award Prize Giving, André Mouraux

12:30 – 14:00   Lunch

Workshops 14h to 16h: When registering online, you have the choice to select max 2 workshops, whereby each workshop will be organized twice (from 14h00 to 15h00 and from 15h00 to 16h00)

Workshop 1    Low back pain in teenagers: Not so cool for school, Patricia da Silva (Antwerp)
                      (Dutch/French)
                                  
Workshop 2   Clinical examination of the back, Luc Haenecour (Brussels) (French)      
 

Workshop 3   Patient education: complementary perspectives from physiotherapy and
                      psychology, Els Aerts (Genk) en Sarah Maes (Gent) (Dutch)


Accreditation has been requested for medical doctors and physiotherapists.