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New technologies – movement studies – back problems

Olympic Museum, Lausanne

March 28, 2025

Medicol Congress 2025

The Medicol 2025 conference challenges us to consider the medicine of tomorrow. By exploring applications dedicated to communication, we will see how doctors and therapists can use new technologies for their patients.

To better adapt to patients' expectations, it is also important to better understand their functional abilities. Movement studies, particularly gait analysis, are easier to perform today and pave the way for a new generation of functional assessments. This diagnostic step, within a more comprehensive framework, strengthens the climate of trust between doctors and patients, allows for documentation of follow-up care, and raises patient awareness in their care.

These new horizons are made possible thanks in particular to tools developed at EPFL and we are pleased to welcome this year the engineers who developed them and who will explain to us the methods and future developments.

The afternoon is dedicated to back problems, which will be addressed from various angles: first, how to make the correct diagnosis and which examinations to perform; the role of the chiropractor, the importance of postural assessment, and the usefulness of a functional biomechanical approach. An invitation to revisit conservative treatment in order to offer innovative solutions.

We will then examine the potential of multidisciplinary care in a center dedicated to pain treatment. Finally, we will examine the various interventional procedures currently available and the assessments that can be used to optimize their results.

A final round table will clarify the respective indications for each of these techniques and will allow us to better understand their complementarity.

Training points

Swiss orthopedics:

Physioswiss:

SGAIM/SSMIG:

SGPMR/SSMPR:

SGR/SSR (Rheumatology):

SEMS:

Program

SESSION 1

NEW TECHNOLOGIES: Perspectives

Moderator: Dr. Jacques Vallotton

08:40 - 08:55

New technologies: what changes for our patients and for us doctors?

Speak Dr. Jacques Vallotton, Lausanne

Medicol Congress 2025

Training points

Program

NEW TECHNOLOGIES: Perspectives

08:40 - 08:55

New technologies: what changes for our patients and for us doctors?

08:55 - 09:20

E-health, wearable connected devices and patient monitoring

09:20 - 09:45

Clinical Motion Analysis Using Wearable Systems: From the Lab to Real-Life Conditions

09:45 - 10:00

Discussion

Break

Study of movement

10:30 - 10:50

Diagnostic utility of a functional assessment

10:50 - 11:10

Study of walking and physical activity using connected tools

11:10 - 11:30

Gestures and virtual reality

11:30 - 12:00

New challenges in physiotherapy

12:00 - 12:20

Discussion

Meal

Back problems: epidemiology and biomechanics

13:50 - 14:10

Risk factors and differential diagnosis

14:10 - 14:30

Chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology

14:30 - 14:50

Blockage in the sagittal plane

14:50 - 15:10

Discussion

Break

Back problems: therapeutic approaches

15:40 - 16:00

Pain Center Treatment

16:00 - 16:20

Interventional radiology

16:20 - 16:40

Bone fragility: assessment and new therapeutic developments

16:40 - 17:00

The revival of spinal endoscopy

17:00 - 17:20

Advances in surgery

17:20 - 17:40

Round table

VIDEO

Closing Message

Speakers

Dr Jacques Vallotton

Dr. Bérengère Rozier Aubry

Prof. Nicolas Theumann

Prof. Dante Marchesi

Prof. Constantin Schizas

Dr. Pietro Aniello Laudato

Vinciane Dobbelaere

Dr. Roland Noirat

Prof. Kamiar Aminian

Dr. Jérôme Thevenot

Prof. Benoît Le Callennec

Dr. Philippe Mavrocordatos

Dr. Jimmy Villard

Vincent Tabone

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