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Melbourne, Australia will be hosting a conference looking into sciatica and back pain on 17th - 19th October 2008. It has been organised by the Australasian Musculoskeletal Medicine Conference
According to conference organiser, Dr Vic Wilk, Melbourne musculoskeletal physician, 96% of back pain partients who are referred to orthopaedic surgeons do not require surgery. He said the conference will discuss assessment and treatment of back pain according to simple evidence-based guidelines instead of rushing into overuse of high-tech investigations which don’t always find the source of the pain.
“Much back pain is self-limiting and can be treated by GPs in their own practices”.
“Our aim is to get all GPs skilled in this area of medicine so that we can stem the flood of disability due to back pain,” Dr Wilk said..
“We can do this by having the GP intervene earlier and more effectively – and without having to perform too many expensive – and sometimes harmful – investigations.”
“Our aim is to get all GPs skilled in this area of medicine so that we can stem the flood of disability due to back pain,” Dr Wilk said..
“We can do this by having the GP intervene earlier and more effectively – and without having to perform too many expensive – and sometimes harmful – investigations.”
