2nd Heidelberg Deformity-Day
International Congress for the Correction of Complex Foot-Deformities

September 18 – 19, 2009 – Heidelberg

Programme

Saturday, 19th September 2009

Main-topic:

Neuropathic Foot-Deformities

Prologue

7:30 am How the foot works and how it falls apart
David Stainsby, Newcastle, UK
8:30 am Principles of analysis and treatment
Wolfram Wenz, Heidelberg, Germany
8:50 am Tendon transfers to balance hindfoot osteotomy and arthrodesis
Marc S. Myerson, Baltimore, USA
9:15 am - 10:00 am Audience response-panel with live-patients (neuropathic)
10:00 am Coffee break and visit of the industrial exhibition
10:30 am

Live-surgery cavo-varus/Polio-clubfoot

Speciality-panel innovations (new implants, new techniques, new devices):

10:40 am
  • Lengthening and Deformity Corrections - State of the Art with the Fitbone Device
    Rainer Baumgart, Munich, Germany

    Switch to live-surgery
10:50 am
  • The Charlotte claw-plate
    William Hodges Davis, Charlotte, USA

    Switch to live-surgery
11:00 am
  • The skew-foot
    Sebastien Hagmann, Heidelberg, Germany

    Switch to live-surgery
11:10 am
  • The problem of getting tendons through bones
    Pascal Rippstein, Zurich, Switzerland

    Switch to live-surgery
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break and visit of the industrial exhibition and workshops
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Panel: Complex reconstructions peripheral neuropathies (CMT etc.)
Moderator:
Panel:
Wolfram Wenz, Heidelberg, Germany
William Hodges Davis, Charlotte, USA
Marc S. Myerson, Baltimore, USA
Murray Penner, Vancouver, Canada
Dishan Singh, Stanmore, UK
Thomas Dreher, Heidelberg, Germany
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee break and visit of the industrial exhibition
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Panel: Complex reconstructions Charcot foot
Moderator:
Panel:
James K. DeOrio, Durham, USA
Per-Henrik Agren, Stockholm, Sweden
William Hodges Davis, Charlotte, USA
Christopher W. DiGiovanni, Providence, USA
Ernst Orthner, Wels, Austria
Ralph Springfeld, Hamburg, Germany
Wolfram Wenz, Heidelberg, Germany
5:30 pm

Speciality-Panel: Pitfalls, lost battles

All faculty-members/participants are invited to show some really weird cases

6:30 pm Conclusion and end of the meeting

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