PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Friday 7th March 2025 | |||||
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07h45 | Registration and coffee | ||||
Chair: Prof Robert Dunn | |||||
08h20 | Welcome | Dunn / Vlok | |||
Pain | 120 | ||||
08h30 | What can rats teach us about pain | Robert Dunn | 15 | ||
08h45 | One’s discomfort may be another’s pain – how to assess need for surgery and manage post-operatively? | Pradeep Makan | 15 | ||
09h00 | Managing the chronic opiate user through surgery | Rowan Duys | 20 | ||
09h20 | Discussion | 5 | |||
09h25 | Prevention Strategies in Primary Surgery: Reducing the Risk of Failed Back | Marcin Czyz | 20 | ||
09h45 | Does the active perioperative participation of the patient to his treatment decrease the rate of FBSS ? | François Lechanoine | 20 | ||
10h05 | Back pain – it was never the back! | Ian Vlok | 15 | ||
10h20 | Discussion | 10 | |||
10h30 | Tea break | ||||
Chair: Dr David Welsh | |||||
Persistent buttock leg pain | 115 | ||||
11h00 | My approach to persistent post-operative leg pain | Peter Polley | 20 | ||
11h20 | Epidural fibrosis – does it really cause pain? | Ian Vlok | 20 | ||
11h40 | Respect the DRG – dangers of foraminal surgery | Ravel Ramlakan | 20 | ||
12h00 | Residual foraminal stenosis after lateral recess decompressions ….what can you get away with to avoid fusion | Sean Tromp | 20 | ||
12h20 | I nibbed a root – what now? | Russell Govender | 15 | ||
12h35 | “Complex Spinal Reconstruction After Failed Instrumentation: A Systematic Approach” | Marcin Czyz | 20 | ||
12h55 | Discussion included in above times | ||||
13h00 | Lunch break | 45 | |||
Chair: Prof Ian Vlok | |||||
Persistant back pain | 105 | ||||
13h45 | Smoking and non-union – should I have seen it coming? | Bakang Kgaodi | 15 | ||
14h00 | Is posterolateral pedicle screw only multilevel fusion still acceptable | Hamaad Gamieldien | 15 | ||
14h15 | Rod fracture – if and when I intervene | Ramanare Magampa | 15 | ||
14h30 | Recognition and management of an established non-union | Attie Botha | 15 | ||
14h45 | Discussion | 10 | |||
14h55 | The Impact of the psyche on pain management | Renata Schoeman | 30 | ||
15h25 | Discussion | 5 | |||
15h30 | Tea break | ||||
Chair: Dr Johan Davis | |||||
The next level | 105 | ||||
16h00 | I should have gone to the pelvis – when and how | Johan Davis | 15 | ||
16h15 | Is a floating fusion doomed to fail? | Sean Tromp | 15 | ||
16h30 | Suprajacent degeneration – why and how to prevent | Nick Kruger | 15 | ||
16h45 | Suprajacent kyphosis following AIS surgery | Etienne Coetzee | 15 | ||
17h00 | Proximal junctional fractures | Adrian Swan | 15 | ||
17h15 | “Minimally Invasive Solutions for Adjacent Segment Disease: Technical Pearls and Pitfalls” | Marcin Czyz | 20 | ||
17h35 | Discussion | 10 | |||
17h45 | end of day | ||||
Saturday 8th March 2025 | |||||
Chair: Dr Ramanare Magampa | |||||
The elusive lordosis and other problems | 120 | ||||
08h30 | Sagittal balance for L4-S1 surgeons | Slade Vermaak | 15 | ||
08h45 | Getting the best out of TLIF for lordosis | Nick Kruger | 15 | ||
09h00 | The SIJ after long fusions to pelvis | Alberto Puddo | 15 | ||
09h15 | Discussion | 10 | |||
09h25 | Achieving cervical lordosis in long fusions | Adrian Swan | 15 | ||
09h40 | 3 level ACDF – is it ever indicated? | Dave Welsh | 15 | ||
09h55 | Discussion | 10 | |||
10h15 | AI-Assisted Decision Making in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: Moving Beyond Traditional Algorithms” | Marcin Czyz | 20 | ||
Discussion | 5 | ||||
10h30 | Tea break | ||||
Chair: Prof Robert Dunn | |||||
Problems | 135 | ||||
11h00 | Neuromodulation | Milton Raff | 30 | ||
11h30 | UBE redo lumbar spine spectrum | Malcolm Pestonji | 20 | ||
11h50 | Discussion | 10 | |||
12h00 | Case discusion: When the patient rejects the implant | Peter Polley | 15 | ||
12h15 | Case discussion: Screws everywhere | Alex vd Horst | 15 | ||
12h30 | Case discussion: Dr Marius Du Preez | Marius du Preez | 15 | ||
12h45 | Case discussion: delegates | 30 | |||
13h15 | Discussion and Close of CTSS | ||||
13h30 | Commencement of SASS Endoscopic Society event | ||||
arranged by Dr Shawn Venter | |||||
all CTSS delegates welcome to attend | |||||