Annual Scientific Meeting Belgian Pain Society 2021:
'Life with a Back'

8h00 Registration & coffee
8h30 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

09:25 – 09:50 Our sixth sense of low back pain, Simon Brumagne 

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

10:25 – 10:55 Coffee break

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

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

11:45 - 12:20 Future pharmacological treatments for chronic pain - how will they work? Martin Schmelz 

12:20 - 12:30 BPS Award Prize Giving, A. Mouraux 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
 

14:00-16:00 Workshops (You can attend max. 2 workshops. Each workshop will be organised twice from 14:00 to 15:00 and from 15:00 to 16:00)

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) & Sarah Maes (Gent)