NEUROMODULATION IN EUROPE IN 2009

Germany – Italy – South Eastern Europe

Spain - France

Florence (Italy) – June 12-13-14, 2009

FRIDAY – June 12, 2009

17.00

Opening Remarks

President Italian Chapter of INS– P. Poli

President German Chapter of INS – V. Vadokas

President South Eastern Europe Chapter of INS – D. Sakas

President Spanish Chapter of INS – D. Abejon

President French Chapter of INS – J.P. Nguyen

President of European Federation of IASP Chapters – EFIC– G. Varrassi

President of Federdolore – W. Raffaeli

President of Società Italiana Clinici del Dolore – SICD – G. Orlandini

President of A.I.S.D. - ......

17.30

Main Lecture

Title to be defined

G.C. Barolat

18.00

Free Oral Communications

Chairmen:

-Post herpetic pain: two cases treated with subcutaneous stimulation –

F.Ciliberto (Italy)

-Transforaminal nerve route stimulation – G. Babbolin (Italy)

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20.00

Happy hour Cocktail (during the Cocktail)

SATURDAY – June 13, 2009

09.00

Breakfast SeminaR

Spasticity

Chairmen: M. Meglio (Italy) – I. Dones (Italy)

09.30The basic neurophysiological principles of spasticity

I. Panourias (Greece)

09.40Intrathecal baclofen for spasticity – B. Cioni (Italy)

09.50Long-term follow-up of spastic patients under intrathecal baclofen

M. Schmutzler(Germany)

10.00 Discussion

10.20Coffee Break – Video Poster Session

PAIN

Chairmen: V. Vadokas (Germany) – C. Bonezzi (Italy)

10.40Spinal Cord stimulation in the treatment of pain - E. Reig (Spain)

10.50Deep and cortex brain stimulation for the treatment of pain

M. Meglio (Italy)

11.00Intrathecal drug infusion for the treatment of pain – W. Raffaeli (Italy)

11.10Occipital neurostimulation for the treatment of intractable headache

J. Pérez Cajaraville (Spain)

11.20Discussion

SUBCUTANEOUS STIMULATION

Chairmen:J. De Andrés (Spain) – N. Monachese (Italy)

11.40Title to be defined – G. Colini Baldeschi (Italy)

11.50Subcutaneaous Stimulation on occipital N.– A. Cesaroni (Italy)

12.00Treatment of occipital neuralgia : C2 infiltration, C2 radicotomy or Occipital nerve stimulation ? - S Raoul (France)

12.10Case records – G. Pinato (Italy)

12.20Postsurgical neuropatic pain– B. Piva (Italy)

12.30Discussion

13.00Lunch Seminary

PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION

Chairmen:H. Harke (Germany) – S. Korfias (Greece)

14.30Peripheral nerve Stimulation - D. Klase (Germany)

14.40PNS: percutaneous techniques– C. Reverberi (Italy)

14.50Discussion

SACRAL STIMULATION

Chairmen:K. Matzel (Germany) – C. Ratta (Italy)

15.10Techniques of implant – G. Naldini (Italy)

15.20Applications and results in colonrectal field – A. Munoz (Spain)

15.30Applications and results in urological field – G. Del Popolo (Italy)

15.40Experience with sacral nerve stimulation - F. Hertel (Germany)

15.50Discussion

16.00Coffee Break

OTHER MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Chairmen:A. Costantini –S.Mameli

16.20Technical considerations on deep brain stimulation – M. Meglio (Italy)

16.30Motor cortex stimulation for Parkinson’s disease – A. Lavano (Italy)

16.40Motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders other than Parkinson's disease - JP Nguyen, P Mertens (France)

16.50Deep brain stimulation in dystonia –D. Sakas (Greece)

1700Neuromodulation in Dystonia – A. Leonardos (Greece)

17.10Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease - F. Hertel (Germany)

17.20Discussion

POINT OF VIEW ABOUT ZICONOTIDE

Chairmen:F.Berlinghieri –F.Paoletti

17.40Title to be defined - Italy

17.50Title to be defined - Greece

18.00Title to be defined – Spain

18.10French experience with the use of Ziconotide – X. Menegalli(France)

18.20Title to be defined - Germany

18.30Discussion

18.50 - 19.50General Assembles (Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Southern East Europe)

GALA DINNER(During the Cocktail)

SUNDAY, June 14, 2009

09.00

Breakfast seminar

Reserved for Companies

DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF NEUROMODULATION

Chairmen: S. Korfias – I. Panourias (Greece)

09.30Vagal nerve stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy – S. Korfias (Greece)

09.40Neuromodulation and psychiatric disorders -V. Sturm (Germany)

09.50Deep brain stimultion for algic syndromes and OCT – A. Franzini (Italy)

10.00Deep brain stimulation for dyskinesia secondary to neuroleptic treatment S Blond, P Mertens (France)

10.10Neuromodulation for angina pectoris -S. Eckert (Germany)

10.20Discussion

11.00 – 12.30 - Coffee Break – Video Poster Session