The “State of the Art
in Chronic Low Back Pain” symposium is the 3rd symposium in three
years. The first two meetings were very successful and many lecturers and
participants have spent a wonderful time in Bodrum.
The symposium is
aiming at health care professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of
patients with chronic low back pain of various origins. Physiatrists,
orthopaedic surgeons, manual medicine rheumatologists, vocational physicians,
physiotherapists, etc. contribute and participate in the symposium. Besides the
multidisciplinary approach the main advantage of the meeting is that people
from several countries and from several backgrounds meet and exchange ideas and
opinions and return home with new enthusiasm and new inspiration.
The symposium really
wants to contribute to a better understanding between cultures in Europe,
improve the level of knowledge and skills of the health care professionals,
with the ultimate goal to improve the treatment of those patients that suffer
from a chronic low back pain.
As chairman of the 3rd
State of the Art in Chronic Low Back Pain I invite all friends from Europe to
come to Bodrum and joint this interesting meeting.
Prof. Henk J. Stam,
MD, PhD, FRCP