The Saudi Society for Physical Therapy, Western Region Branch, organizes a four-day symposium on modern treatment techniques for back pain, shoulder joint and knee pain. The Saudi Society for Physical Therapy, Western Region Branch, organizes a four-day symposium on modern treatment techniques for back pain, shoulder joint and knee pain in the period from 3 to 6/5/2010 AD 19-22/5/1431 AH at the Abdul Latif Jameel Center for Physical Therapy.

Dr. Ahmed Yassin Barhamin, head of the branch of the Saudi Society for Physical Therapy in the Western Region and Director of Rehabilitation in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Health, stated that the symposium comes within the annual activities of the Society, as this session was preceded by a course of rehabilitation treatment for burns disease, which lasted for two days from 16-17 / 3/2010 AD and was held in the city King Abdullah Medical.

Barhamin added that the scientific program of the symposium is a rich program that includes a specialized group of faculty members at Umm Al-Qura University and the National Guard Hospital in Jeddah, as the program includes on its first day a lecture and a workshop by Dr. Abdul Jalil Allam, a member of the faculty at Umm Al-Qura University, Physiotherapy Department, and discusses the advanced and complex movement of the shoulder joint And the injuries that can be inflicted on the shoulder joint from joint dislocation or rupture of the shoulder muscles, methods of therapeutic intervention and the latest physiotherapy techniques used during treatment. The symposium discusses back pain on its second and third days, and Dr. Hussein Al-Rashidi, Head of the Orthopedic Unit, Department of Physical Therapy at the National Guard Hospital in Jeddah, discusses Defining back pain, causes and symptoms of back pain, and when should therapeutic intervention, seek medical help, methods of conducting examinations and diagnosis, ways to prevent back pain, then review modern techniques in the field of physical therapy for treating back pain, in addition to an anatomical workshop for the back, and the symposium''s activities are concluded with lectures by Dr. Ahmed Yassin Barhamin President The branch of the Saudi Society for Physical Therapy in the Western Region and the Director of Rehabilitation in Makkah Health for Pain The knee joint from osteoarthritis, the cartilage or ligaments in the knee are torn after a twisting or bruising, the presence of dissolved parts of the gall (knee soap) or the cartilage floating around the joint, the presence of a protruding and painful cyst behind the knee (an ovarian cyst or Baker''s cyst) etc. and it deals with how to care The knee joint pain, therapeutic intervention and modern techniques in the field of physiotherapy for the treatment of knee joint pain.

Dr. Ahmed Barhamin thanked the participants from the members of the scientific program, the members of the education committee of the Saudi Society for Physical Therapy, the workers, and Dr. Ayman Zafer, the presenter of the seminar and a member of the faculty at Umm Al-Qura University, and everyone who participated in the preparation and preparation of the events.