Boston International Forum X
Primary Care Research On Low Back Pain
June 14–17, 2009 • Boston, MA





Welcome to the Tenth International Forum on Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain – Focusing on Function, Activity and Participation

Registration has reached capacity, but there may still be opportunity. Please email contedu@hsph.harvard.edu and include your name, title, and organization, or call Harvard's Center for Continuing Education at 617.384.8692 to be added to the waitlist.

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The International Forum on Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain is the premier international conference on research on low back pain, with a focus on primary care. The goal of the Forum is to share the latest concepts, methods, and results in low back pain diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and work disability prevention.

Attendees include leading investigators in the fields of primary care, occupational health and safety, physical therapy, occupational therapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, and epidemiology with an interest in low back pain.

The Forum program includes keynote speakers, oral presentations, poster presentations and workshops organized around the conference themes and emerging issues. In order to maintain an intimate and interactive atmosphere attendance is restricted to less than 200 registrants.

Plans for Forum X are well underway. This meeting will be structured around improving low back pain (LBP) outcomes, with an emphasis on engaging patients and other stakeholders to achieve the outcomes important to them.

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To serve as an agenda around which the program will be formed, the Local Organizing Committee poses the following questions:

Question One:
What are the outcomes of LBP, and how do they inter-relate?
Stakeholder perspectives and models for understanding

Question Two:
What factors are related to outcomes?
Risk factors, co-morbidities, subgroups, and the like

Question Three:
How can we improve outcomes?
Including new approaches and what we might learn from other disciplines

Question Four:
How can we translate research to practice?
Insight from theorists, researchers, and clinicians

Come learn about what others are thinking and contribute your own expertise.

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Forum X Venue:

For more information, please contact us at • CCPE Dept. A • 677 Huntington Avenue
• Boston, Massachusetts 02115 • USA • phone: 617-384-8692 • fax: 617-384-8690
• email: contedu@hsph.harvard.edu • web: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe