Highlights of the 17th EFORT Congress Geneva 2016

General Orthopaedics

  • Tribology: Bearing choices
  • Bones and Joints: Replace or repair
  • Implants & Biomaterials: Is New Safe?
  • The obese patient
  • Innovation and sustainability

Musculoskeletal Tumors

  • Influence of age on reconstruction in bone tumors

Musculoskeletal Infections

  • Strategies in infected implants

Spine

  • Clinical judgement in the aged spine

Upper Limb

  • Hand: the tool to care for!
  • Computer assisted shoulder surgery
  • Pitfalls in rotator cuff surgery

Lower Limb

  • Knee replacements: expectations and reality
  • Perioperative management in Total Knee Replacement (TKR)
  • Hip replacements: expectations and limits
  • New approach, new components, new problems
  • Cemented or cementless
  • Degenerative Foot & Ankle

Trauma

  • Augmented implants

Paediatrics

  • Early care achieves life-time mobility

Highlights 2016