The Whiplash 2019: Expanding Horizons Symposium focused on from where we have come to where we are going, when managing Whiplash Associated Disorders. Findings were presented from the first four years of operation of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Recovery Following Road Traffic Injuries. Focused themes included: system related factors, progress in clinical management and biopsychosocial underpinnings.
Speakers & Presentation Slides
- Associate Professor Tonny Elmose Andersen, University of Southern Denmark - Prevention of chronic Whiplash Associated Disorders – a randomised controlled trial: results and conclusions from a new psychological approach
- Professor Alex Collie, Monash University - Work absence and return to work pathways among those with transport-related injury
- Dr Rachel Elphinston, The University of Queensland - How does an integrated physiotherapist-delivered stress management intervention exert its effects? Identifying unique targets for acute whiplash treatment
- Dr Scott Farrell, The University of Queensland - Spinal cord pathology is not a feature of chronic Whiplash Associated Disorder: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
- Dr Ha Nguyen, John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research - Claims in NSW CTP insurance scheme: propensity to claim and factors associated with higher propensity to claim
- Aimie Peek, The University of Sydney - Brain neurochemicals in headache and pain conditions- understanding and discovering a new mechanism
- Associate Professor James McAuley, University of New South Wales - Patient education: where are we heading?
- Associate Professor Sophie Ravn, University of Southern Denmark - Posttraumatic Stress in Whiplash Associated Disorders: Why Diagnostics Are Difficult in Comorbid Cases
- Dr Trudy Rebbeck, The University of Sydney - Clinical Pathways of Care – making them work in the real world
- Dr Carrie Ritchie, The University of Queensland - Evaluation of a novel intervention to improve physical activity for adults with Whiplash Associated Disorders: a multiple-baseline, single case experimental study
- Dr Clare Scollay, Monash University - Lawyer Use in Road Traffic Injury Compensation Claims
- Viviana Silva, The University of Queensland - Reassurance for people with WAD and neck pain – what do they want?
- Professor Michele Sterling, The University of Queensland - Very early treatment of WAD in the Emergency Department – lessons learnt from a preliminary RCT
- Professor Michele Sterling, The University of Queensland - Core Outcome Measures for WAD initiative – update on progress