29 August 2023

13:00 - 17:00

Registration

14:00 - 18:00

Pre conference side meetings (tentative) 

14:00 - 16:00

Cochrane Musculoskeletal, Back and Neck.
Open Meeting for all LBP Forum participants. Location: Rode Zaal. Please click here for the agenda.

16:00 - 18:00

LMIC Workshop and Open Network meeting for LMIC- and HIC  participants. Location: Ronde Zaal.
Moderator: Fabianna Moraleida.
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18:30 - 21:30

Welcome reception at DOT Groningen
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30 August 2023

07:45 - 16:30

Registration

08:30 - 08:45

Opening Session by prof. Bart Koes and prof. Michiel Reneman.

08:45 - 09:30

Keynote lecture 1 - prof. Bert Otten: Complexity in human movement and practical implications.

09:30 - 10:30

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.

OPS: 
1.2

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?
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session 1
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11:00 - 12:30

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.

 

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:30

Coffee and Poster Session 1
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16:30 - 17:15

Keynote lecture 2 - prof. Lance McCracken: Embracing complexity with personalized psychological treatment for people with low back pain: Shall we? 

31 August 2023

07:45 - 16:30

Registration

08:30 - 08:45

Morning address

08:45 - 09:30

Keynote lecture 3 - Dr. Judy Veldhuijzen: You get what you (don’t) expect? How placebo effects can be used to optimize healthcare.

09:30 - 10:30

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.

 

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session 2
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11:00 - 12:30

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.

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:15

Keynote lecture 4 - prof. Romy Parker: Managing complex pain in complex settings: lessons from the primary healthcare environment in resource poor settings.

18:30 - 23:00

Dinner at the Martinikerk (Martin's church), Groningen. 
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01 September 2023

08:00 - 12:00

Registration

08:30 - 08:45

Morning address

08:45 - 09:30

Keynote lecture 5 - prof. Raymond Ostelo: Intervention research in low back pain. Challenges in developing and evaluating (complex) interventions.

09:30 - 10:30

Researching Complexity - panel discussion with prof. Lance McCracken, prof. Raymond Ostelo and prof. Bert Otten. Moderator: prof. Steven Kamper.

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break and Poster Session 3
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11:00 - 12:30

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.
12:30 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:30

Start Poster Session 3 (during 2nd half of lunch break)
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13:30 - 14:30

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.

 

14:30 - 15:00

Synthesis Forum XVIII
Moderators: prof. Rachelle Buchbinder and prof. Chris Maher.

15:00 - 15:20

Awards Ceremony.
Moderator: prof. Michiel Reneman.

15:20 - 15:30

Invitation to Forum XIX in 2025
Moderator: prof. Bart Koes.

15:30 - 16:00

Drinks and closure