1st Heidelberg Deformity-Day
International Congress for the Correction of Complex Foot-Deformities

September 12th – 13th, 2008 - Heidelberg

Programme

Friday, September 12th, 2008

9:30 Registration
10:30-10:50 Welcome
10:30 Dr. Eckart Würzner, Lord Mayor of Heidelberg
10:35 Prof. Dr. Volker Ewerbeck, Director Orthopaedic University Hospital
10:40 Dr. Daniel Frank, President DAF/DGOOC
10:45 Dr. Wolfram Wenz, D-Day-Chair
10:50-12:00 Introduction
10:50 Variety of deformities – philosophy of treatment
Wolfram Wenz, MD
11:20 Multi-dimensional aspects of foot deformities on gait and posture
Tom Dreher, MD
11:40 Discussion
12:00-1:30 Lunch/Industrial Exhibition/ Industrial Workshops
1:30-2:30 Diagnostics
1:30 Clinical diagnostics
Michael Akbar, MD
1:45 Radiological diagnostics
Thomas Grieser, MD
2:00 Gait analysis, ”The Heidelberg Foot-Model”
Sebastian Mueller, MD
2:20 Discussion
2:30-3:00 Coffee break/Industrial exhibition
3:00-4:00 Decision making/Surgical approach
3:00 Bony corrections: Osteotomies/arthrodesis
Ernst Orthner, MD
3:30 Soft tissue corrections: Releases/Tendon-transfers
Wolfram Wenz, MD
  Workshops and panels (patient-based)
4:00-5:00 Sagittal plane deformities
4:00 Workshop: Equinus foot
Tom Dreher, MD
4:30 Workshop: Calcaneus foot
Michael Akbar, MD
5:00-6:30 Panel 1: Total ankle replacement in foot deformities
Moderator:
Ernst Orthner, MD

Panel:
Murray Penner, MD
Victor Valderrabano, MD
Jim DeOrio, MD
Hajo Thermann, MD
Dan-Henrik Boack, MD

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