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The EFORT scientific awards are selected among the many high-quality abstracts submitted to the congress. Among the traditional Free Paper and Jacques Duparc (poster) Awards, EFORT last year introduced the EFORT/Medtronic Award for Excellence in Bone Repair Research and this year for the first time, the EFORT Michael Freeman Award. The latter was created in memory of Professor Michael Freeman, one of the founding fathers of EFORT and EFORT President 1994 to 1995, to honor his lifetime contribution to both the European and the International Orthopaedic Community after he passed away in September 2017.

BARCELONA, Spain — Patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head were satisfied after treatment that included arthroscopy to stage the condition, followed by core decompression and the application of bone morphogenetic protein or bone marrow aspirate concentrate, according to a surgeon from Dubai who presented results at the EFORT Annual Congress, here.

BARCELONA, Spain — Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy was as effective as physical therapy in patients with degenerative knees and a confirmed meniscal tear that was non-obstructive, according to results of a multicenter study presented at the EFORT Annual Congress.

From 2000 to 2016, researchers found a steady decrease in reimbursement for procedures in all orthopedic subspecialties, except for removal of an orthopedic implant. They also found adult reconstruction had the greatest rate of decrease, according to results published in Orthopedics.

Arthroscopy for knee osteoarthritis offered no benefit in reducing or delaying the need for total knee arthroplasty compared with conservative treatment, according to a recently published study.

Innovation in orthopaedics and traumatology is slowly, but surely influencing medical practice by replacing well-established procedures with new techniques whenever an adapted application is possible. The main theme of the EFORT 2018 Congress is Innovation and New Technologies, which focuses on the rapid and extensive evolution of surgery and treatment options within the worldwide orthopaedics and traumatology community. Indeed, nowadays, new methods considerably improve and speed up the diagnosis and treatment done in most areas of the orthopaedic field.

CHICAGO — During the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, several awards were presented to residents, fellows and physicians for outstanding papers presented at the meeting and for work at the Orthopedic Learning Center.

CHICAGO — At the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, Jean-Romain Delaloye, MD, said anterolateral ligament reconstruction protected the repaired medial meniscus in patients who underwent ACL reconstruction.

CHICAGO — Results presented at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting showed both hip arthroscopy when performed alone or in combination with periacetabular osteotomy yielded significant improvements for acetabular dysplasia in all patient-reported outcomes at 1-year and 2-year follow-ups.