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





Forum X has come and gone. Thank you to all of you who helped make the event such a great success. For those of you who could not join us, you may use this link to access the Forum Program and Abstract book. Our 'Program' page on the left contains links to the oral presentations.

The date and venue for Forum XI has been set. It is to be held in Melbourne, Australia, March 15–19, 2011. Interested persons should contact the Forum XI organizer, Rachelle Buchbinder, at Rachelle.Buchbinder@med.monash.edu.au.

Wishing you every success in your future endeavors,

LBP Forum X
Local Organizing Committee

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