Spine Strategies

Think every back pain needs a scalpel? Think again. Chronic spine pain is one of the most mismanaged and misunderstood dilemmas in orthopedic practice. This session is here to bust myths, challenge surgical reflexes, and arm you with smarter, non-surgical strategies for those patients who refuse to read the textbook.

We’ll dissect Post Spinal Surgery Syndrome, where pain persists long after the wound has healed and the MRI looks just fine. Discover how precision interventions, nerve blocks, and RF techniques can outperform revision surgeries in carefully selected cases.

Speaking of RF, did you know that cluneal nerve entrapment is an underdiagnosed, surgically treatable cause of low back pain that often gets mislabelled as “facet arthropathy” or “SI joint pain”? Learn to spot it, treat it, and score those grateful patient reviews.

And for those pesky patients where every scan is pristine but the back pain’s worse than a tax audit, our Panel Discussion on Chronic Back Pain with Normal MRI promises to be both enlightening and delightfully irreverent. We’ll debate, debunk, and deliver practical pointers you can use on Monday morning.

A few key stops on this knowledge highway:

  • When NOT to inject: Spot dangerous dye spreads during interventions before disaster strikes.

  • Radiofrequency ablation: Not just for facets anymore, think SI joint, coccyx, cluneal nerves, and beyond.

  • Neuropathic pain meds decoded: Tired of random pregabalin prescriptions? Learn clean, stepwise pharmacological algorithms with tips on what works (and what to drop).

Join us because spine care isn’t always about the knife. Sometimes, it’s about knowing when to holster it.