Expected Scientific Areas To Be Covered

Trauma

Upper Cervical: # Odontoid Current Trends. Rehabilitation surgery in high quadriplegics.

Subaxial Spine

Cervicothoracic junctional fracture.

Thoracolumbar

Sacral fractures,
Multilevel Spine Injuries.
Biomechanical evaluation and clinical application thoracolumbar spine.
Autonomic dysreflexia.

Lumbar Degenerative

Complex Lumbar Canal Stenosis,
Multilevel disc disease,
Tandem Stenosis.
Ozonolysis in multilevel disc disease.
Rehabilitation of failed back surgery.
Interventional rehabilitation in the axial and radicular lumbosacral pain.

Cervical Degenerative

OPLL – Current levels of Understanding, Natural History/Conservsative treatment for a: lumbar canal stenosis, b: for cervical spodylomyelopathy; Lumbar Canal Stenosis with Diabetic Neuropathy

Osteoporosis

Delayed neurodefecit from Osteoporotic #s- how to manage;
VTP vs BKP in VCF – hard evidence.
Exercise prescription and bracing in osteoporosis.

Infections

Is anterior surgery at all required for active dorsal spinal TB with neurodefecit; Why is TB spine in children different? Infective discitis : Iatrogenic rehabilitation intervention vs. systemic infection.

CVJ

Rheumatoid AAI;
CVJ TB, Post. Vs. 
Ant. + Post. For basilar invagination,
PFD alone Vs PFD + Duroplasty in ACM

Deformities

Current concepts of Adult Deformity,
High grade spondylolisthesis: Mangement Options;
Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome,
Post Laminectomy Deformity: is it a myth;  Osteotomies for deformity correction.
Orthotic management of scoliosis.

Congenital

Spinal Dysraphism- Clinicoembryological significance, CSF leak Management.
Early rehabilitation of spinabifida

Panel Discussion

Trauma:
Surgery or Conservative for Thoracolumbar burst fractures; Anerior or Posterior surgery for cervical trauma.

Degenerative:
Multilevel disc disease with neuropathy.

CSM:
Anterior/ Posterior surgery for cervical spine myelopathy.

Deformity:
Anterior / Posterior surgery for Lenke V C curve

CVJ:
Anterior/ Posterior surgery for Basilar Invagination.

• Physiatric management in patient with PIVD + anterior listhesis.
• CASH vs. TLSO : for osteoporotic collapse.