2025 Critical Concepts in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery

2025 Critical Concepts in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery is organized by Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education (FORE) and will be held from Dec 11 - 13, 2025 at FIVE Labs Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.

Course Description:
Critical Concepts in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery provides a comprehensive hands-on experience in shoulder and elbow procedures, allowing attendees to  learn how to do these procedures by actually doing them.

Through case-based discussions, surgical tips presentations, live demonstrations, and extensive hands-on experience with anatomic specimens, the expert faculty will discuss:

• Treatment of massive rotator cuff tears, including tendon transfers 
• Stabilization procedures for shoulder dislocations
• Techniques for anatomic and reverse shoulder arthroplasty
• Surgical pearls for revision arthroplasty procedures
• Approaches to the elbow

Multiple opportunities for hands-on training with new technologies and techniques will be offered on each day of the course.

This Course will Offer:

• Multiple opportunities for valuable hands-on experience with anatomic specimens in our state-of-the-art bioskills lab
• More live and recorded surgical technique demonstrations to give you a good grounding in a variety of shoulder and elbow procedures
• Fewer didactic lectures and more practical surgical pearls – no “death by PowerPoint” at this course! 
• An Interactive Technology & Biologics Showcase on Thursday to help you gain a new level of comfort with advanced technologies 
• Demos and discussion of complex and revision sports and arthroplasty procedures – new for 2025!

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Discuss the role of biologics and augments in the treatment of massive rotator cuff tears
• Explain when and how to perform tendon transfers for massive rotator cuff tears
• Compare open versus arthroscopic procedures to manage shoulder instability
• List the approaches for surgical exposure of the elbow
• Describe the techniques for adequate exposure and replacement of the glenoid and humerus in an uncomplicated anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty
• Explain the circumstances in which an augmented glenoid implant should be considered in anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty
• Identify glenoid bone loss requiring use of an augment in a patient undergoing reverse shoulder arthroplasty
• Recognize the role of PSI and navigation in reverse shoulder arthroplasty
• Perform the latest approaches for operating on a variety of shoulder and elbow pathologies, including revision arthroplasty