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18th EFORT Annual Congress scheduled to be held in Vienna
Sports is the new focus of the world's musical capital and a focus of next year's EFORT Congress.
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The annual meeting of EFORT is the largest platform within Europe for orthopaedic experts to exchange knowledge, skills and information about professional practice. Following the success of its previous congresses, the EFORT leadership has decided to bring to the educational platform for the 2017 congress a topic that has been well-received within the orthopaedic community: sports activities and orthopaedic practice.
The congress will take place 31 May to 2 June 2017.
As mentioned by Prof. Jan Verhaar, who is the EFORT upcoming president 2016/2017, sports have become a major part of everyday life. Professional sport activities are appreciated worldwide and broadcast widely. In addition, there are many studies that show the average person needs to increase his or her physical activity to live longer and be healthier.
Orthopaedic practitioners face increasing numbers of patients who present with acute or chronic sport injuries, as well as complaints related to overuse injuries specific to the sport in which they trained. Moreover, some patients would like to resume their favorite sport or fitness activity after undergoing an orthopaedic treatment. A related question that patients often ask is about the activities and sports that are acceptable to undertake after total knee or total hip replacement.
It is clear that sport and fitness activities of patients not only influence the work of orthopaedic surgeons specialized in the field of sport medicine, but the practice of nearly all orthopaedic surgeons who seek to provide optimal care. Therefore, the sharing of knowledge and science in this area may stimulate and improve the European orthopaedic care standard.
The European Union promotes health-enhancing physical activity on behalf of all European countries. As the federation that unites all national European societies within orthopaedics and traumatology, EFORT needs to provide orthopaedic surgeons with the knowledge and experience they need to support these goals and keep patients active and healthy.
Among the expected highlights of the EFORT Congress in 2017 are e-health applications in orthopaedic research; hip trauma and return to sport; sport activities after deformity correction in children; less common shoulder sport injuries; treatment of chronic bone infection; shoulder instability management; and functional outcomes after unicompartmental and total knee arthroplasty.
- For more information:
- www.efort.org/vienna2017
- Save the dates!
- Abstract submission opens from 15 September 2016 - 13 November 2016 23:59 CET
- Congress registration opens15 September 2016