Program 2023 (all session times mentioned are CET)
29 August 2023
Registration
Pre conference side meetings (tentative)
Cochrane Musculoskeletal, Back and Neck.
Open Meeting for all LBP Forum participants. Location: Rode Zaal. Please click here for the agenda.
LMIC Workshop and Open Network meeting for LMIC- and HIC participants. Location: Ronde Zaal.
Moderator: Fabianna Moraleida.
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Welcome reception at DOT Groningen
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30 August 2023
Registration
Opening Session by prof. Bart Koes and prof. Michiel Reneman.
Keynote lecture 1 - prof. Bert Otten: Complexity in human movement and practical implications.
Oral Plenary Session 1 - Session Room: Blauwe Zaal
| Time | Presenting | Title | |
| OPS: 1.1 |
09:30 | Mark Hancock | Cognitive functional therapy with or without movement sensor biofeedback versus usual care for chronic, disabling low back pain (restore): a randomised controlled, three-arm parallel group, phase 3, superiority clinical trial. |
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09:50 | Fredrik Granviken | Case-based reasoning: application of an artificial intelligence system in the management of common musculoskeletal pain complaints. |
| OPS: 1.3 |
10:10 | Brent Leininger | How representative are clinical trial participants of the U.S. population with chronic neck or back pain? |
Coffee Break and Poster Session 1
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Workshop Parallel Sessions 1
| Session Room | Presenting | Title | |
| WS:1.1 | Lokaal 4 | Roland Reezigt | Modern insights of spinal pain in the education of healthcare professionals – what and how to implement? |
| WS:1.2 | Lokaal 10 | Alessandro Chiarotto | Prognostic models and machine learning in patients with back and neck pain: towards an international consortium? |
| WS:1.3 | Ronde Zaal | Remko Soer |
Dealing with complexity in back pain; is machine learning the answer? |
| WS:1.4 | Lokaal 18 | Christine Lin |
Opioid analgesics for back and neck pain – evidence, guidelines, and implementation. |
| WS:1.5 | Lokaal 16 | André Wolff | Minimally Invasive Interventions Back and Neck Pain in Belgium and the Netherlands. |
| WS:1.6 | Blauwe Zaal | Hollie Birkinshaw | Low mood in musculoskeletal pain is not a psychiatric comorbidity: implications for research, practice, and policy. |
| WS:1.7 | Rode Zaal | Ney Meziat-Filho | Lessons and future perspectives after the end of three cognitive functional therapy clinical trials for chronic low back pain conducted in Brazil. |
| WS:1.8 | Lokaal 9 | Jill Hayden | Evidence for back pain treatments: time to open up our science. |
Lunch
Oral Parallel Sessions 1
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Coffee and Poster Session 1
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Keynote lecture 2 - prof. Lance McCracken: Embracing complexity with personalized psychological treatment for people with low back pain: Shall we?
31 August 2023
Registration
Morning address
Keynote lecture 3 - Dr. Judy Veldhuijzen: You get what you (don’t) expect? How placebo effects can be used to optimize healthcare.
Oral Plenary Session 2 - Session Room: Blauwe Zaal
| Time | Presenting | Title | |
| OPS: 2.1 |
09:30 | Simon French | Primary care clinicians’ knowledge and attitudes about imaging for patients with low back pain: a qualitative study. |
| OPS: 2.2 |
09:50 | Tamar Pincus | Psychosocial factors associated with orthopaedic spine clinicians’ decision to offer surgery for low back pain in the UK. |
| OPS: 2.3 |
10:10 | Søren Grøn | What do people believe to be the cause of low back pain? a scoping review. |
Coffee Break and Poster Session 2
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Workshop Parallel Sessions 2
| Session Room | Presenting | Title | |
| WS:2.1 | Rode Zaal | Morten Hoegh |
This house believes that lifting guidelines produce more harm than benefit for workers with back pain; a thesis-antithesis-synthesis debate. |
| WS:2.2 | Lokaal 18 | Hans Timmerman |
The role of screening instruments in establishing pain diagnosis in chronic low back pain. |
| WS:2.3 | Lokaal 4 | Alessandro Chiarotto |
Spinal osteoarthritis: towards establishing a clinical research agenda. |
| WS:2.4 | Lokaal 17 | Chris Williams |
Finding solutions to support learning health systems by improving embedded research for neck and back pain. |
| WS:2.5 | Lokaal 9 | Bayden McKenzie |
Development of an agreed national minimum dataset for low back pain. |
| WS:2.6 | Lokaal 16 | Javier Muñoz Laguna |
To blind or not to blind in clinical trials of nonsurgical physical interventions for musculoskeletal pain — that is the question. |
| WS:2.7 | Lokaal 10 |
Esther Janssen |
Prehabilitation in spine surgery from an American and European perspective. |
Lunch
Oral Parallel Sessions 2
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Coffee and Poster Session 2
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Keynote lecture 4 - prof. Romy Parker: Managing complex pain in complex settings: lessons from the primary healthcare environment in resource poor settings.
Dinner at the Martinikerk (Martin's church), Groningen.
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01 September 2023
Registration
Morning address
Keynote lecture 5 - prof. Raymond Ostelo: Intervention research in low back pain. Challenges in developing and evaluating (complex) interventions.
Researching Complexity - panel discussion with prof. Lance McCracken, prof. Raymond Ostelo and prof. Bert Otten. Moderator: prof. Steven Kamper.
Coffee break and Poster Session 3
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Oral Plenary Session 3:
| Time | Presenting | Title | |
| OPS: 3.1 | 11:00 | Cecilie Krage Øverås |
Are prevalence and patterns of co-occurring musculoskeletal pain among people with persistent low back pain stable? Population-based data from the Norwegian HUNT study, 1995-2019. |
| OPS: 3.2 | 11:22 | Mette Stochkendahl |
One size does not fit all: a qualitative study of low back patients’ experiences of the selfback app. |
| OPS: 3.3 | 11:44 | Jill Hayden |
Research Integrity Characteristics of Randomized Controlled Trials Published about Exercise Treatments for Chronic Low Back Pain. |
| OPS: 3.4 | 12:06 | Arianne Verhagen | Toward valid network meta-analysis in musculoskeletal conditions; a case study in neck pain. |
Lunch
Start Poster Session 3 (during 2nd half of lunch break)
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Oral Plenary Session 4
| Time | Presenting | Title | |
| OPS: 4.1 | 13:30 | Pieter Coenen |
De-implementation of non-evidence-based low-back pain hospital care is slow – treatment trends in Dutch hospital register data from 1991 to 2018. |
| OPS: 4.2 | 13:50 | Louise Elliott |
Is there any need for further rcts of spinal manipulation vs. other interventions for chronic low back pain? |
| OPS: 4.3 | 14:10 | Flora Chamberlain |
The extent of research waste in trials of exercise versus usual care/no treatment – trial sequential meta-analyses. |
Synthesis Forum XVIII
Moderators: prof. Rachelle Buchbinder and prof. Chris Maher.
Awards Ceremony.
Moderator: prof. Michiel Reneman.
Invitation to Forum XIX in 2025
Moderator: prof. Bart Koes.
Drinks and closure
18th International Forum for Back and Neck Pain Research
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