SIMEG - sacroiliac medical expert group

Sacroiliac Medical Experts Group e.V.
Germany based international medical association
to explore the questions of pelvic girdle pain and SIJ syndrome

SIMEG articles of interest

By Michael Dierks

Move to  pages of particular interest within our website, which you might have overlooked until now:

Educational Webinars: experts present their experience and insight in various rarely discussed topics related to the sacroiliac joint. Attendance is free, the recorded meetings can be viewed anytime.  

SIJ Projects: learn more about our actual projects

  • SIJ Case Registry ISAR – how it works and why you should join it
  • SIJ Paper of the month (PoM) – recent SIJ related articles of interested, picked by our experts
  • SIJ Diagnosis – various diagnostic algorithms, proposed by our experts
  • SIJ Therapy – manual therapies, proposed by our members
  • SIJ Textbooks – written by SIMEG members

Past events: review our past events, watch the lectures and discussions online

 

ISAR: add your case

By Michael Dierks

In cooperation with ESD in Innsbruck SIMEG is running the International Sacroiliac Arthrodesis Registry (ISAR). See how you can add new cases to the program after you created your user account (simeg-international.com) Registration of surgical cases is helpful to understand the healing process and pros and cons of various new devices and technologies. And, moreover, surgeons and patients can participate and will be able to observe the benchmark of clinical outcome after SIJ fusion.

Recorded webinar: SIJ Dysfunction in Athlets

By Daisuke Kurosawa

Feel free to watch these outstanding lectures and the discussion.

  1. Video presentation of the PoM October - Tsuyoshi Morito, PT
  2. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction in athletes and its exercise therapy - Koji Kaneoka, MD
  3. SIJ pain in the adolescent and yount athletes - Pierre d'Hemecourt, MD
  4. Future regenerative medicine in the treatment for athletes - E. Jeffrey Donner,MD

Next webinar will be on March 24th, 2024 dealing with SIJ biomechanics. Save the date!

Papers of the month

By Daisuke Kurosawa

In this section we introduce recent articles of interest. Feel free to discuss or send in your recommendation.
Latest papers: November 2023

Posterior intra-articular fixation stabilizes both primary and secondary sacroiliac joints: a cadaveric study and comparison to lateral trans-articular fixation literature.

Sayed D, Amirdelfan K, Hunter C, Raji OR. J Orthop Surg Res. 2023 Jun 3;18(1):406.

 

Meet The Experts Vol. 3

By Daisuke Kurosawa

The SIJ topic is still underrepresented in the talks of major orthopedic conferences. Sacroiliac experts are spread all around the world. SIMEG members meet in person and learn from each other in their fellowship. Our president, Dr. Daisuke Kurosawa, met Dr. Jan-Paul van Wingerden at the Low back and Pelvic Girdle Pain conference in Melbourne. Read more about his insights.

Free view of ICSJS 2021 videos

By Michael Dierks

Our webinars and meetings are recorded. We grant immediate access to all SIMEG members.  Public view is released with a time delay and we are happy to serve the full conference ICSJS 2021 now. You can't wait for the next release?  Get on board, join the SIJ experts and become a SIMEG member!

ICSJS (RR) 2023 and 10th Anniversary Meeting

By Michael Dierks

We thank everyone for attending this extraordinary meeting.

The summary and conference recordings are now available. If you were registered on site or online, we did send you the download link for the videos. Have a look at the impressive images of the meeting, and if you did not attend the meeting, register for delayed view.

For our members: The full minutes of the annual meeting can be downloaded from the members site

Meet The Experts

By Daisuke Kurosawa

The SIJ topic is still underrepresented in the talks of major orthopedic conferences. Sacroiliac experts are spread all around the world. SIMEG members meet in person and learn from each other in their fellowship. Here's a new report:
Meet the Experts - Vol 1

A truly great book! I strongly recommend this book for every medical specialist for SIJ care. -Daisuke Kurosawa, MD

By Daisuke Kurosawa

New Textbook!

This book goes into scrutinous detail on how we got to where we are and educates the reader on all how our societies, institutions, and industry bear the primary responsibility. Patients are being used and abused at every possible level in America’s “for profit” health care system. This book offers multiple suggestions as to how to address the many “sacroiliac pain problems” in America and offers the important steps we need to take as the culture of America to put the patient back at the top of the health care pyramid, and provide the safest surgeries possible when they are needed.

 

Non Surgical Treatment

By Michael Dierks

The conservative treatment approach may differ in each region and among professionals and we highlight some of them. These differences are worthy of discussion. We respect the conservative therapy methods and techniques of all professionals and invite you to share your opinions.

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ICSJS 2016 Gallery

New Members

By Michael Dierks, (comments: 0)

New members from Asia and the USA, dedicated to help SIJ patients, joined our group in the new year 2023. We welcome

  • Drs. Takeshi Sasaki, Ayumi Kaneuji, Keisuke Ito, Lynn Maeda, Juichi Tonosu, Jyoji Shin (Japan)
  • Dr. Picharn Pichyangkul (Thailand)
  • Dr. Igin Ginting (Indonesia)
  • Dr. Bruce Dall, Roberto Aranibar (USA)

 

SIMEG Award

By Michael Dierks

The SIMEG board decided to publish lifetime achievement recognitions of merited members. The first choice is Bruce Dall. Congratulations and a Happy New Year!

Board Election 2022

By Michael Dierks

We thank our past president Dr. Jeff Donner for his presidential work in the difficult pandemic season. He initiated the series of educational webinars which started with the first ICSJS in 2021.

SIMEG Safety Symposium

By Michael Dierks

One of the most important webinars was the Safety Symposium in October 2022 with a lively debate on surgical safety aspects based on lectures of David Polly, MD and Thomas Freeman, MD. The debate may be downloaded here.

ISAR case registry

By Michael Dierks

In cooperation with ESD in Innsbruck SIMEG has now installed the International Sacroiliac Arthrodesis Registry (ISAR). Create your user account by filling out the form below and join this important project. Thanks to Martin Blay for his work.

Zwecke und Ziele der SIMEG e.V.

Die ‘SIMEG’ ist eine als gemeinnützig anerkannte Vereinigung von Personen, die sich mit der Therapie der Sakroiliakalgelenke und des Beckengürtels in Klinik, Praxis und Forschung operativ, konservativ oder beratend befassen.  Aufgabe der Mitglieder ist es, die Ziele der Gruppe wissenschaftlich und praktisch zu vertreten sowie durch Austausch und Vermittlung eigener Kenntnisse und Erfahrungen die experimentelle und praktische Forschung auf diesem Gebiet zu fördern. Insbesondere ist der Verein im Rahmen einer steuerbegünstigten Umsetzung der satzungsmäßigen Zwecke in folgender Weise tätig:
a) Organisation und Durchführung wissenschaftlicher Arbeitstagungen im In- und Ausland;
b) Anregung und Förderung steuerbegünstigter wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen;
c) Koordinierung von wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Gemeinschaftsarbeit verschiedener Forscher;
d) Verbreitung der Erkenntnisse wissenschaftlicher Forschung;
e) Weiterbildung, Fellowship- und Hospitationsprogramme;
f) Erstellung von Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Therapie von Erkrankungen des Sakroiliakalgelenks;
g) Aufbau eines internationalen SIG-Registers;
h) Beteiligung an der Entwicklung von Studiendesigns;
i) Beschaffung und Mittelweitergabe für/an andere steuerbegünstigte Körperschaften sowie Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts für deren steuerbegünstigte Zwecke i.S. von § 58 Nr. 1 AO.

Surgical Treatment
Research & Education
Manual Therapy

Purposes and Objectives of SIMEG

“SIMEG” is tax-privileged not-for-profit association of persons, who deal surgically and conservatively in the treatment of the sacroiliac joints and of the pelvic girdle in hospital, practice and research. The task of the members of the Association is to represent the objectives of the group academically and practically and to promote experimental and practical research in this field. In particular, the Association is active within the framework of a tax-privileged realisation of its objectives in accordance with Articles of Association as follows:
a) Organisation and conduct of academic workshops, both domestically and overseas;
b) Stimulating and promoting tax-privileged scientific investigation;
c) Co-ordinating the academic research and collaboration of a variety of researchers;
d) Disseminating the insights of academic research;
e) Continuing education, fellowship and work shadowing programmes;
f) Preparation of guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the sacroiliac joint;
g) Setting up an international Sacroiliac Joint Register;
h) Participation in the development of study designs;
i) Sourcing and provision of funding for other tax-privileged incorporations and public corporations for their tax-privileged objectives within the meaning of Art. 58, s. 1 of the (German) General Tax Code.

Join the ISAR Case Registry

The registration of surgical cases is helpful to understand the healing process and pros and cons of various new devices and technologies. And, moreover, surgeons and patients can participate and will be able to observe the benchmark of clinical outcome after SIJ fusion.

Create Your ISAR Account
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There's a reason why the majority of doctors do not consider sacroiliac joint fusion as a standard of care.

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Prof. B. Meyer, M.D.

Right now, the SIJ fusion world is a total free for all that is using one approach (the 510(k) approach) with no one but industry in charge of educating the surgeons or providing oversight for the surgeries that are being performed. Complications do occur, and are currently managed in haphazard ways with no accountability to anyone. The one person who is really left out of the equation here is the patient.

Bruce Dall, M.D.

“It is wonderful that there is now an institution which tries to collect the data – which are very poor until now.

Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Harms

I am really thrilled about the increased interest of my life commitment – the sacroiliac joint. You might know I have been working on the field since 1986. I am very glad to hear that several orthopedic surgeons are realizing the importance of the SI-joint. As well I think planning of a conference is extremely important to give it an important impact. The fate of the SIJ should be taken care of.

Dr. Bengt Sturesson

If the patient has two lesions and you only treat one, the patient will still be unhappy! You never think about the sacroiliac joint if you don't think about the sacroiliac joint.

Arnold Graham-Smith, M.D.

As an enthused participant I would like to give you a feedback on your meeting in Hamburg: The quality of lectures and discussions had been truly outstanding, it was worth the long travel. Being a manual physician as well as interventional pain therapist I really drew important benefit. Unfortunately until now only few collegues are considering this topic. I am very open to cooperate!

Dr. Markus Schneider, Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon

"I highly appreciate that an association is now dealing intensively with this problem which is an urging problem within the field of spinal pathologies - not only in the respect of surgical therapies. I consider it immportant that this - oftentimes mystifyingly approached - problem of SIJ now starts to enter the solid ground of natural science."

Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Harms

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