Main Highlights

• Robotics & Computer-assisted surgery.
• 3D printing.
• Biomaterials.
• Advanced implant technologies.
• New tissue regeneration techniques.
• Patient specific treatment.
• Minimally invasive surgery.
• New diagnostic techniques.
• Virtual learning environment.
• Innovative rehabilitation programmes.
• Patient involvement in treatment & research.
• Telemedicine.

Hand & Wrist / Hand & Wrist Trauma

• Management fractures and ligament lesions of the wrist.

Shoulder & Elbow/ Shoulder & Elbow Trauma

• New surgical and tissue regeneration techniques for soft-tissue repair.
• Difficult cases with patient specific treatment using new technologies.
• Osteoarthritis in young patient. How to treat it?

Musculoskeletal Tumours

• Computer-assisted and advanced implant technologies.
• Minimally invasive techniques and 3D printing.

Foot & Ankle / Foot & Ankle Trauma

• Minimally invasive surgery.
• New diagnostic techniques.
• Patient-specific treatment.

Paediatrics / Paediatrics Trauma

• How do congress scientific knowledge influence the practice in paediatric orthopaedics?
• Implant technology advancement and research progress for guided growth procedures.
• Technological improvements trigger safer and more successful treatments in EOS.
• Do long-term results requirements promote or hinder innovations?
• Innovations in application of new biomaterials and patient-specific treatment.

General Topics

• Intraoperative Imaging – the future.
• Ethics in everyday orthopaedic practice.
• Minimal requirement in statistics for the orthopaedic surgeon

Basic Sciences & Biomechanics

• Immune reactions and joint replacement.
• Understanding and performing meta-analysis.
• Clinical research on cell therapy.
• Bioceramics to heal bone.

Pelvis, Hip & Femur

• Bearing surfaces in primary THA.
• Most important choice for outcome in primary THA.

Implants, Biomaterials & Registry Study

• Pre-operative factors as predictors for post-operative outcome in primary THA and TKA.