Dear friends and colleagues,

Holding this 25^th Tunisian National Congress and the 1^st North African Congress of Rehabilitation is a real privilege and honor for us.

Organizing this congress underlines the degree of our attachment to our specialty and our aim to optimize the collaboration with neighboring scientific societies. Indeed, this 1^st North African Congress will be an opportunity to meet our North African friends and colleagues (Algerians, Moroccans, and Egyptians). It will be the occasion to share experience and knowledge between colleagues.

It is therefore with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in this scientific event taking place on May 12, 13 and 14, 2023 at Russelior Hotel in the magnificent seaside town of Hammamet, Tunisia.

The themes of the congress will be:

• Management of brain injury in Early stage

• Assessment and Management of Balance Disorders

• Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy

The choice of themes was dictated by our clinical practice and patients demands.

The multidisciplinarity needed to manage these conditions mandated a collaboration with first line doctors, geriatric doctors, and intensive care doctors.  We have therefore invited the representing scientific societies to participate, and we thank them for accepting our invitation:

• Tunisian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, and intensive care medicine

• The Medical Social Association for the Elderly of Sousse (Tunisia)

• Tunisian Society of Family Medicine

The Program of this Tunisian and North African Congress will be very interesting with local and international speakers’ conferences.  It will include update conferences, workshops, and symposia.  We have also chosen to schedule a new session for young PMR doctors, and an English session. We hope that they will become a usual tradition.

A call for abstract submission has already been launched.  The selected works will be presented as oral communications and E-Poster and the three best will receive a prize.

This year coincides with the 30th anniversary of our Tunisian Society. Together we can strengthen the impact of our specialty in patient management.

Looking forward to meeting you in Hammamet-Tunisia.

Best regards.

Presidents of the Congress:

Pr H. Rahali            rahadoc@yahoo.fr            +21698618824

Pr R. Maaoui           maaouirim@ymail.com      +21654147537

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department

Main Military Hospital of Instruction of Tunis, Tunisia