Proceedings of the 6th Saudi Spine Society Annual Conference on December 2022, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The 6th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Spine Society (SSS) was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the 18th–20th of December 2022. The meeting was attended by over 500 participants. The title of the meeting was “Promoting Excellence in Spine Care,” and it was hosted by Dr. Mahdi Bassi, the president of the meeting, and Dr. Fahad Abduljabbar, the chairman of the scientific committee. The meeting was preceded by five workshops, including Neurolife cervical spine trauma, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, spine radiology for nonradiologists, clinical classification of age-related low back pain, and finally, a hands-on workshop on “Enabling technology in spine surgery: Robotic, navigation and endoscopy.” The main conference was enriched by the participation of nine different national and international societies. Sixty-four speakers shared their experiences through the conference from different specialties to emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary care in spine surgery. In addition, a special session was dedicated to spine care evolution after the pandemic. A total of 66 lectures were delivered in addition to 16 podium presentations for the accepted abstracts.