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The 2017 SASMA Members Conference was held on Sunday 28^th May at the magnificent Adelaide Oval. The theme of this year’s conference was “Pain and the Brain: Current concepts & strategies for pain management of the active population”. 

2017 saw record numbers of over 140 delegates in attendance at the conference along with regional, interstate and overseas members logging in via the live webcast.

The day started with the Henry Kneebone Presentation given by Professor Mark Hutchinson from the Adelaide University. Professor Hutchinson’s presentation looking at the implications of pain and how to treat it was a great overview and start to the day.

The rest of the morning involved main plenary sessions looking at pain from different perspectives including rheumatology, medical, physiotherapy, psychology and radiology. The afternoon saw delegates split off to take part in workshops before the day concluded with a time to network at the end of the day.

A big thank you to all our speakers for the day for the time and effort they put into their presentations and overall contribution to the success of the day. The presenters included:

-        Professor Catherine Hill

-        Dr Andrew Potter

-        Dr Christian Barton

-        Dr Ebonie Rio

-        Dr John Baranoff

-        Dr Jonathan Heysen

-        Dr Richard Hillock

Conferences cannot happen without sponsors and SASMA would like to thank Dr Jones & Partners Medical Imaging for once again coming on as the Major Sponsor for the Conference as well as Affinitas Capital who have joined as a partner in 2017 as the Keynote Speaker Sponsor.

Delegates had the opportunity to interact with our sponsors and other trade exhibitors during the breaks. The trade exhibitors in 2017 included:

-        DJO Global

-        Practitioner Supplies

-        Recoverite

-        StatPacks

This year we were able to provide the live webcast of the day to those who were not able to attend in person. This is due to the great work of Grant and Steve from Wallfly who have continued to provide this amazing service for our members. As part of this service delegates have access to the videos from the day, allowing them to go back and review parts that they may have missed out on.

We are looking forward to the 2018 Conference and hopefully the opportunity to break new records again.

If you are an organisation / business that would be interested in being involved in future events with SASMA please contact the office and speak with our General Manager regarding opportunities that might exist.