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AJCC April 2000

CBP®’s  1^st Presentation at an ISSLS’s Conference

            Dr. Don Harrison, my father, and I traveled to Adelaide, Australia to attend the April 9-13, 2000 27^th Annual ISSLS Conference. The International Society for the Study of the lumbar Spine (ISSLS) is a very prestigious research society with members from all over the world. Each year there are three levels of presentations, Poster Board, Special Poster Board, and Platform Speaker. ISSLS membership is difficult to obtain, requiring 4 recent publications on the lumbar spine in the Index Medicus, past presentations at ISSLS’s conferences, and three letters of recommendation from ISSLS’s members. However, research presented at the Annual Conferences are based upon review of submitted abstracts and not membership.

            Since we would like to become members of ISSLS in the future, we submitted an abstract of a recently completed CBP® study on the lumbar spine for possible inclusion in the 27^th Annual ISSLS Conference. We were accepted and presented our data in Adelaide in the form of a Poster Board. This study was a non-randomized clinical control trial with data collected at my clinic in Elko, Nevada. I am the lead author on this particular project with co-authors, Don Harrison, PhD, DC, Rene Cailliet, MD, Tad Janik, PhD, and Burt Holland, PhD. The title is “Changes in Sagittal Lumbar Configuration with a New Method of Extension Traction”.

            An interesting aspect of ISSLS research presentations is the veracity of questions coming from researchers in the question/answer time periods. Well known researchers in the audience attack any questionable point they can find, all in the name of good science. At times, we noticed this can be somewhat unsettling for the particular presenter. However, ISSLS members believe that a paper’s flaws can be pointed out before submission to a journal, thereby improving the quality of published papers from their members. We were happy to be included at an ISSLS Conference and hope to move up through the levels of presentations in the coming years.