News update

The 2^nd edition of the course Diagnosis and Treatment of the Filum Disease will be taking place in Barcelona, Spain, between 10 and 14 November 2014, presented by the “Chiari & Scoliosis & Syringomyelia Foundation” (CSSF) through the “Filum Academy Barcelona^®”, with the cooperation of the “Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona”.

This course is aimed at neurosurgeons, neurologists, orthopaedists, traumatologists, general practitioners, rehabilitators and the rest of healthcare professionals interested in this new disease concept that is comprised within the descriptive term “Filum Disease”.

This new issue will be taught in Spanish language. Given the course’s feature of rotating theoretical training with clinical cases and practical activities, the maximum number of assistants will be six. Participants will be selected according registration order.

The training looks to strengthen diagnostic, pre- and post-operative managements competences with regards to this group of conditions that, even if they manifest differently, share a common etiology: the anomalous tension exerted by the filum terminale.

The keynote speech will be delivered by Neurosurgeon Dr. Miguel B. Royo Salvador.

We will be providing more information as the date draws closer.