Pre-conference symposia - Tuesday 20 April 2010
‘Primary Care Day was just right’
– delegate, Rheumatology ‘09
‘Good scientific content, especially the session on lupus’
– delegate, Rheumatology ‘09
This year, Rheumatology 2010 will run as a three day conference, and will be preceded by a number of innovative pre-conference symposia. To attend these sessions you will need to register separately. Places for some of the symposia will be limited, and so you are advised to book early.
| 09.30-10.30 |
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09.15-11.00 |
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08.30-09.30 |
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Introduction
Overview, epidemiology, history and examination
Acute and chronic, red and yellow flags, investigation and referral
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Improving patient management
• What do patients want? Presentations from patient
groups with discussion
• Alternative and complementary therapy: a rational
approach to the benefits of placebo?
• Avoiding cardiac disease
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Registration
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| 10.30-11.00 |
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09.30-11.00 |
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Inflammatory spinal disease: how to recognise and treat it
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• Wnt signalling, sclerostin and DKK1 and bone cell regulation
• Epigenetics and cartilage
• Immunology lecture
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| 11.00-11.30 |
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11.00-11.30 |
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11.00-11.30
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Tea/Coffee
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Tea/Coffee |
Tea/Coffee
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| 11.30-13.00 |
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11.30-13.00 |
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11.30-13.00 |
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Practical session 1: examination:
Physician
Physiotherapist
Osteopath/chiropractor
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Disease management
• Osteoarthritis: going further than NICE
• Pharmacological management
• The future of hip arthroplasty
• Managing psychological and social issues
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Meet the expert workshops. A chance to meet experts in the field of bone, cartilage and immunology ask questions and discuss and cases with them.
• Generation and pattern formation in the developing limb
• Reponse of cartilage to injury
• Chondrodysplasias, matrix molecules implicated in disease |
| 13.00-14.00 |
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13.00-14.00 |
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13.00-14.00 |
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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| 14.00-14.30 |
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14.00-15.30 |
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14.00-15.30 |
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Pain management:
A practical guide to drug therapy for back pain management in primary care
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Symptom diagnosis and management
• Fatigue: inflammation or depression
• Headache: GCA or not?
• Sports injury: groin pain and all that
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Meeet the expert workshops. A chance to meet experts in the field of bone, cartilage and immunology ask questions and discuss questions and cases with them.
• Dissecting out novel regulatory pathways in bone
• Interaction of cancer cells with bone – what are the key questions?
• Stem cell biology
• Stem cell delivery
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| 15.00-15.30 |
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Cognitive approaches to back pain management –
Altering behaviour
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| 15.30-16.00 |
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15.30-16.00 |
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15.30-16.00 |
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Tea/Coffee
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Tea/Coffee
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Tea/Coffee |
16.00-16.30
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16.00-18.00 |
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16.00-17.30 |
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What does surgery have to offer?
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Clinical decision making
• Preparation for recertification
• Rational clinical approach to diagnosis 1
• Rational clinical approach to diagnosis 2
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• Mechanical loading effects on bone
• Proteses involved in Cartilage breakdown
This BSR symposium has been organised in conjunction with:
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| 16.30-17.00 |
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Imaging quiz
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| 17.00-18.00 |
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Practical session 2:
Physical therapies:
Acupuncture
Physiotherapist
Osteopath/chiropractor
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