A Workshop Course on Musculoskeletal Medicine and Spinal Manipulation Paris, September 25-30, 2006

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A 6-day Workshop Course will be conducted in English at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital (in the hearth of Paris, opposite the Notre-Dame Cathedral), from Monday the 25th of September to Saturday the 30th 2006.

The course is presented by Jean-Yves Maigne, MD, and his staff from the department of Physical Medicine. It will cover the conservative management (and more specially the manual therapy) of lumbar, thoracic and cervical pain by the French School.

The application is restricted to MDs and American DOs.

As such, the basic structure of each day consists of:

8:45 - 9:45: Morning Lecture

10:00 - 12:30: Outpatients' clinic

Afternoon and/or evening: social programme

Monday, Sept 25
Welcome address
8:30 - 9:30 Lecture Clinical exam of the spine
Outpatients clinics
Social Programme: Cruise on the river Seine (afternoon)

Tuesday, Sept 26
8:30 - 9:30 Lecture Thoracolumbar junction syndrome
Outpatients clinics
Social Programme: Dinner in a restaurant + tour of Paris in a vintage bus

Wednesday, Sept 27
8:30 - 9:30 Lecture Low back pain and lumbosacral junction
Coffee break Outpatients clinics Lunch
Social Programme: Guided visit at the Orsay Museum (impressionist paintings) (afternoon)

Thursday, Sept 28
8:30 - 9:30 Lecture Dorsal thoracic pain of cervical origin
Outpatients clinics Lunch
Social Programme: Guided visit of the Marais Quarter (Historical place nearby the Hôtel-Dieu) (afternoon)

Friday, Sept 29
8:30 - 9:30 Lecture Cervicogenic headache
Outpatients clinics
Social Programme: Gala dinner at the Museum of History of Medicine

Saturday, Sept 30
9:00 - 10:30: Workshops
11:00 - 12:30: Workshops
Social Programme: Afternoon Party

Contact by phone: 00/33 1 42 34 82 07 (in the morning only)
Contact by fax: 00/33 1 42 34 82 23
Contact by email: jy.maigne@htd.aphp.fr

Registration fee: 900 euros, including coffee breaks, lunches and the social programme.
Accompanying persons: 250 euros.
There are many hotels at a close walking distance from the hospital. See our list

Terms and conditions of payement

1) Full prepayement by bank transfer is to be sent through the swift banking system in euros prior to participants arrival. Please supply your bank with the details below which are to be forwarded to France.

2) A deposit of 300 euros is required before the end of June, in order to settle the reservations. The rest could be payable before September the 1st.

3) On spot registration could also be possible, provided we have agreed on it before.

Bank name: Credit Lyonnais
Bank address: CL Versailles Paroisse, Rue de la Paroisse, 78000 Versailles, France
Bank identity number: 30002 / 08900
Account number: 0000795127X
Account name: Association de Formation en Médecine Orthopédique (AFMO)
SWIFT: CRLYFRPP