Education
2016 Mahalapye Spine Care Conference
April 2016
Mahalapye, Botswana
In April 2016, World Spine Care once again hosted a spine care conference in Mahalapye, Botswana. The 2016 conference built upon the 2013 conference with two days of lectures and workshops.
The title of the conference was Putting Evidence-Based Care into Practice and you can click here to see the conference program.
Lectures
The impact of spinal disorders on communities and the necessity for a spine care program
The World Spine Care model for spinal disorders
People-centered and integrated spine care delivery: A new paradigm for the 21st Century
The management of low back pain without serious pathology or neurological deficits
Scoliosis and deformity screening of adolescents – Report of the results of recent screening in Mahalapye and Shoshong
The indications for and interpretation of spine imaging – Part 1
The indications for and interpretation of spine imaging – Part 2
Identifying the patient who needs emergency spinal surgery
Indications for fusion in low back pain
The role of surgery in the treatment of spinal pain and radiculopathy
Evidence-based pharmaceutical interventions for the management of spinal pain
Yoga and low back pain – the World Spine Care yoga project
Cases seen in the World Spine Care Clinics in Mahalapye and Shoshong