Multidisciplinary Session

MS 10 - Lumbar pain: from symptom to diagnosis

March 5, 14:30 - 16:00 CET

5 min
Chairperson's introduction
18 min
The limitations of imaging in chronic spine pain patients
  1. To appreciate the difference in the concept of normality between radiology and clinical practice and the consequences for patients with lumbar pain.
  2. To learn the difference between nociception and pain.
  3. To appreciate the limitations of radiological findings as the source of nociception in patients with chronic lumbar pain.
18 min
Imaging of lumbar spine osteoarthritis
  1. To learn the complex pattern in imaging of lumbar spine osteoarthritis.
  2. To appreciate the specific correlation between imaging and lumbar spine osteoarthritis pain.
  3. To understand the role of imaging in the diagnostic strategy of lumbar spine osteoarthritis pain.
18 min
What does a surgeon want to know for lumbar pain?
  1. To learn about spinal static: the fundamentals and its usefulness.
  2. To appreciate the relationship between spinal static and lumbar pain.
  3. To understand what the surgeon wants to know before and after surgery.
18 min
Imaging clues to non-degenerative spinal disorders: rethinking lumbar pain
  1. To recognise that lumbar pain may arise from both non-degenerative and atypical degenerative spinal conditions, including axial spondyloarthritis, chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO), osteochondrosis, and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH).
  2. To identify distinguishing imaging features of non-degenerative spinal disorders and mimicking entities through illustrative cases.
  3. To evaluate the role of radiologic imaging in differentiating inflammatory, developmental, and degenerative pathologies of the lumbar spine.
15 min
Multidisciplinary case discussion