ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book Geneva 2012 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Menetrey, Jacques (Editor), Zaffagnini, Stefano (Editor), Fritschy, Daniel (Editor), Dijk, Niek van (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.

This book contains a collection of instructional course lectures given during the 15th ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy) Congress, held in Geneva during May 2012. The lectures cover a wide range of hot topics in the field, including diverse injuries and ma...

Table of Contents:

• Tips and tricks in arthroscopic surgery
• Management and consequences of the rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy
• Biceps pathology, evaluation and treatment option
• Unicompartmental knee prostheses: basic technique
• Posterior ankle arthroscopy: what are the limits?- Basic concept in PCL evaluation
• Revision ACL
• Massive rotator cuff tears and cuff arthropathy
• Multiple ligament injury management
• Patient matched cutting blocks, navigation and 3-D rotation
• Study design and research methodology
• The role of wrist arthroscopy in traumatic and post-traumatic injuries.-  Lateral compartment injury of the knee
• Conservative treatment of chronic shoulder pain in overhead athletes
• Algorithms and flow-charts for the treatment of cartilage pathology
• Total knee arthoplasty: BASICS gap balancing, various approaches: femur first, tibia first, rotation, varus knee, valgus knee, getting the patellofemoral joint right
• Elbow arthroscopy
• Navigation in orthopaedic sports medicine.