10th Tohoku Low Back Pain Forum, Sendai, Japan 第10回東北腰痛フォーラム
On the 5th April 2014, Adj A/P Hee Hwan Tak delivered a keynote special lecture to Orthopaedic surgeons in the Tohoku (North-east) region of Japan for the 10th Tohoku Lower Back Pain Forum, an annual Orthopaedic scientific meeting for the practising surgeons in Tohoku. Orthopaedic surgeons from the six prefectures of the Tohoku region came to listen to two lectures from Dr Hee:
- Current status of biologics in spinal fusion
- Understanding the pathophysiology of intervertebral disc degeneration – where are we now?