Oxfordscoliosis 2025 Christ Church, Oxford
Oxford Early onset scoliosis meeting 2025
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This is a residential meeting. Accommodation is provided for 2 nights from the 24th – 25th September 2025.
Pre-meeting Faculty dinner Tuesday 24th September, Christ Church, University of Oxford
TARGET AUDIENCE
The format will follow that of the last meeting which is to encourage lively debate and interaction. The faculty will be a mixture of national and international Spine Surgeons.
MEETING INFORMATION: Target Audience
This meeting is aimed at practicing pediatric deformity surgeons as well as Fellows/trainees interested in pediatric deformity. In addition, anesthetists, physicians, and allied health professionals with an interest in spinal deformity may benefit.
Learning objectives:
By the end of the meeting participants should be able to build on the knowledge gained at the previous meetings by focusing on: • Current trends in EOS• The return of MCGR – What next?• New Technologies - Bipolar/Spring Distraction/posterior tethering• Nighttime bracing – Myth or Fact?• Neuromuscular Scoliosis and implant density – What’s best?• Robotics in Paediatric deformity • Future developments
The format will follow that of the last meeting which is to encourage lively debate and interaction. The faculty will be a mixture of national and international Spine Surgeons.
MEETING INFORMATION: Target Audience
This meeting is aimed at practicing pediatric deformity surgeons as well as Fellows/trainees interested in pediatric deformity. In addition, anesthetists, physicians, and allied health professionals with an interest in spinal deformity may benefit.
Learning objectives:
By the end of the meeting participants should be able to build on the knowledge gained at the previous meetings by focusing on: • Current trends in EOS• The return of MCGR – What next?• New Technologies - Bipolar/Spring Distraction/posterior tethering• Nighttime bracing – Myth or Fact?• Neuromuscular Scoliosis and implant density – What’s best?• Robotics in Paediatric deformity • Future developments
PROGRAMME
Day 1
THURSDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER The Growth and Development in Mammalian spine
0815-0830 Assessment of Growth 0830-0845 Risser vs Sanders: Who do we turn to? 0845-0900 Let’s talk about growth and the Tweener 0900-0915 Presume not that I am the thing I was 0915-0930 Discussion Congenital Deformity
0930-0945 Modern approach to CSD 0945-0950 Congenital Kyphosis – classification and treatment 0950-1005 Anterior vs Posterior resection of HV – Same difference? 1005-1020 Late presentation – resect or stabilise?
1020-1035 Coffee 1035-1130 Case presentation and discussion Infantile Idiopathic Scoliosis
1130-1145 CAD/CAM Bracing – alternative to Plaster Jackets? 1145-1200 Nighttime bracing: Effective or not? 1200-1215 3D Ultrasound and Spinal deformity 1215-1230 When all else fails: When is the right time for surgery?1230-1300 Discussion & Case Presentation1300-1400 Lunch 1400-1530 New Technologies update1400 MCGR Reloaded – Tripadvisor review 1415 Bipolar Instrumentation - Where are we now? 1430 The Utrecht Experience – 1445 Posterior Vertebral Tethering
1500 The Oxford Chair
1530-1545 Coffee 1545-1600 Managing parental mental health in EOS 1600-1730 Walking break1900-1950 Welcome Reception, Upper Library, Christ Church, University of Oxford2000-1200 Delegate Dinner in Christ Church, University of Oxford Day 2
FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER
Neuromuscular Scoliosis 0830-0845 NMS – An update from a physician's perspective – 0845-0900 Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and steroids – change in surgical strategy? 0900-0915 Surgical Approaches for NMS correction - 0915-0930 Hip or Spine – which comes first? 0930-0945 >1000 NMS curves: Palliate or Alleviate 0945-1000 Coffee 1000-1015 Management of Scoliosis in SMA 1015-1100 Case presentation and discussion
Syndromic scoliosis1100-1115 Update on Medical Intervention1115-1130 Lessons learned – LMIC 1130-1145 Revision risk after syndromic scoliosis surgery 1145-1200 Cervical deformity in syndromic EOS 1200-1300 Case presentation and discussion 1300-1400 Lunch
Peri-operative session
1400-1415 ERAS and non-idiopathic EOS 1415-1430 Vancomycin – EBM or Surgeon’s Foible?1430-1445 Robotics and Navigation in Paed. Spinal deformity1445-1500 VBT: UK experience 1500-1515 Return to normal activities after EOS surgery: When is it safe?1515-1530 Coffee 1530-1545 1545-1600 – Dual Surgeon operating – Fad or necessity? 1600-1615 - Summary
THURSDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER The Growth and Development in Mammalian spine
0815-0830 Assessment of Growth 0830-0845 Risser vs Sanders: Who do we turn to? 0845-0900 Let’s talk about growth and the Tweener 0900-0915 Presume not that I am the thing I was 0915-0930 Discussion Congenital Deformity
0930-0945 Modern approach to CSD 0945-0950 Congenital Kyphosis – classification and treatment 0950-1005 Anterior vs Posterior resection of HV – Same difference? 1005-1020 Late presentation – resect or stabilise?
1020-1035 Coffee 1035-1130 Case presentation and discussion Infantile Idiopathic Scoliosis
1130-1145 CAD/CAM Bracing – alternative to Plaster Jackets? 1145-1200 Nighttime bracing: Effective or not? 1200-1215 3D Ultrasound and Spinal deformity 1215-1230 When all else fails: When is the right time for surgery?1230-1300 Discussion & Case Presentation1300-1400 Lunch 1400-1530 New Technologies update1400 MCGR Reloaded – Tripadvisor review 1415 Bipolar Instrumentation - Where are we now? 1430 The Utrecht Experience – 1445 Posterior Vertebral Tethering
1500 The Oxford Chair
1530-1545 Coffee 1545-1600 Managing parental mental health in EOS 1600-1730 Walking break1900-1950 Welcome Reception, Upper Library, Christ Church, University of Oxford2000-1200 Delegate Dinner in Christ Church, University of Oxford Day 2
FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER
Neuromuscular Scoliosis 0830-0845 NMS – An update from a physician's perspective – 0845-0900 Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and steroids – change in surgical strategy? 0900-0915 Surgical Approaches for NMS correction - 0915-0930 Hip or Spine – which comes first? 0930-0945 >1000 NMS curves: Palliate or Alleviate 0945-1000 Coffee 1000-1015 Management of Scoliosis in SMA 1015-1100 Case presentation and discussion
Syndromic scoliosis1100-1115 Update on Medical Intervention1115-1130 Lessons learned – LMIC 1130-1145 Revision risk after syndromic scoliosis surgery 1145-1200 Cervical deformity in syndromic EOS 1200-1300 Case presentation and discussion 1300-1400 Lunch
Peri-operative session
1400-1415 ERAS and non-idiopathic EOS 1415-1430 Vancomycin – EBM or Surgeon’s Foible?1430-1445 Robotics and Navigation in Paed. Spinal deformity1445-1500 VBT: UK experience 1500-1515 Return to normal activities after EOS surgery: When is it safe?1515-1530 Coffee 1530-1545 1545-1600 – Dual Surgeon operating – Fad or necessity? 1600-1615 - Summary
Reception and Dinner: The faculty request the pleasure of your company on the 25th of September for a drink’s reception in the Upper Library from 1900 – 1950hrs. Dinner will be served at 2000hrs in the Great Hall. Dress code: Black tie.
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By CoachNational Express: Website: www.nationalexpress.com
Location: Buses leave from London Marylebone every 20 minutes (approx.) to Oxford Bus StationJourney time: 1hr 40 mins (approx.)
The Oxford Tube: Website: www.oxfordtube.com
Location: Buses leave London at Victoria (Buckingham Palace Road), Marble Arch, Notting Hill Gate and Shepherd’s Bush arriving at St Aldates and Gloucester Green Bus Station.Journey time: 1 hour 45 minutes (approx.)
Coaches from London Heathrow and Gatwick airports to OxfordThe Airline: Website: www.airline.oxfordbus.co.uk
Journey time from Heathrow: 1hr 30 mins (approx.)Journey time from Gatwick: two hours [South Terminal] 2hrs 30 mins [North Terminal]
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