SagittalMeter Pro vs SSS2023

SagittalMeter is an educative app to easily measure sagittal balance parameters, by directly placing your phone on the sagittal X-Rays. The sagittal balance is an imperative factor to take into consideration for all practitioners treating spine problems and particularly for surgeons during the pre-operative phase. The compensatory mechanisms of a sagittal unbalanced spine may prevent a successful surgery outcome. A fundamental understanding of a correct sagittal alignment is strongly recommended in determining the correct use of fusion or non fusion devices. SagittalMeter enables you to measure 3 fundamental angles which are essential to analyze sagittal alignment (for pre, per and post-operative phases): • Pelvic incidence (PI) • Pelvic tilt (PT) • Sacral slope (SS) Values of lumbar lordosis are also important parameters to describe sagittal balance, so with SagittalMeter you can measure both: • L1-S1 lordosis • L4-S1 lordosis You can do a complete sagittal balance analysis by using advanced mode which extends the previous values with the following measures: • Occipito-C2 angle • Spino-sacral angle (SSA), angle between line from C7/T1 center to S1 plateau center and surface of S1 plateau • C7/T1 slope • C7-C2 angle • Spino-cranial angle (CIA), angle between line from C2 Dens to C7/T1 center and surface of C7/T1 endplate What does it mean? If a patient appears to have sagittal imbalance, this needs to be taken into consideration in the pre-operative planning. Any surgical treatment option should aim at the re-establishment of an ‘economic’ posture, achieved with the restoration of the patient specific sagittal balance. Remembering all theoretical normal values is very important but is definitively not easy and can even be impossible. SagittalMeter gives you the possibility to measure all the parameters in a quick way and gives you the average theoretical normal values for an equivalent asymptomatic healthy patient. How much correction do I need to restore a good balance in daily practice? Before any kind of lumbar fusion including the segment L4 to S1 it is mandatory to analyse the spine balance. If the PT or the lumbar lordosis are not correlated with the value of the PI, an approximation of the amount of correction requested can be evaluated with the FBI technique: C7 translation angle + Femur obliquity angle + PT compensation angle. SagittalMeter enables you to evaluate the FBI index value to get an average correction value.

I would like to welcome you to the 7th Annual conference of the (SSS ) promoting Excellence in Multidisplinary spine care at Jeddah Hilton I especially want to welcome our colleagues and guests coming from outside Jeddah and Saudi Arabia. Some of you will travel far in order to be with us, and I am very pleased that you accepted our invitation and decided to join us. This is the 7th annual successful conference and the first open, we are planning this year to use Virtual and in person attending system for all the audiences from inside and outside Saudi Arabia. Our purpose from this conference to give opportunity for all professionals from all over the world to interact with each other and exchange their experience together, we invited many international and regional spine associations to give a special and uniquity for this conference It will be three full days of actions and information for everybody to cover most of the subjects of spine and its challenges, in addition to the workshop which will be held during the second day of the conference. We selected highly skilled and professional speakers from allover the world to exchange their expertise and knowledges with everybody. This conference will run with many conference's rooms to cover all the specialties, our target audience (orthopedic, neurosurgery, neurology, intervention radiology, physiotherapy. anesthesia, pain service, rehabilitation, nursing, technicians and others) , we will have a suitable sections for researches and researchers to present their papers after review the papers by the scientific committee, our language will be simple and speak- able for everybody to be sure we will introduce all the information in understandable and easy way, we will make this conference unforgettable under the cover of Jeddah the Bride of the Red Sea. I would like to extend my thanks to Dr. Khalid batterjee the Chairman of Organizing committee and great thanks to Dr. Fahad Alabduljabar the chairman of scientific Committe for their dedicated work and effort of making this annual conference happen. Finally we look forward to see you soon Dr. Mandi Bassi