6th Athens Shoulder Course

6th Athens Shoulder Course is organized by Hygeia Hospital, Conco: The Conference Company, Healthcare Education and Advanced Learning (HEAL) Academy by Hellenic Healthcare Group (HHG) and will be held from Feb 07 - 10, 2024 at Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, Athens, Attica, Greece.

Description:
This 4-day course includes lectures by leading shoulder surgeons from all over the world on all hot topics and controversies related to both open and arthroscopic shoulder surgery.

Adding live and relive surgeries, technical videos, debates, mini-battles, interactive challenges and workshops, we are having a 360 degrees approach to shoulder pathology, management and rehabilitation. Moreover by practicing, preselected by each participant, modern, cutting-edge techniques on cadaver specimens, the educational experience  is completed.

We do expect all participants to get familiar with the indications of all methods used, to learn the tips and tricks of how to do it right and then perform each technique under expert guidance.

Our ultimate goal is to bring in contact orthopaedic surgeons from all over the world in order to share their knowledge and experience, to discover common pathways, innovative ideas and creative solutions to common everyday problems. In addition, we establish a common language and communication with our physiotherapists, explaining the modern surgical techniques whilst learning from them the art of rehabilitation. Teaching and being taught, we can improve our results considering our common aim: our patients’ return to an active and fulfilling life.

Course Objectives:
This 4-day course includes lectures by experienced shoulder surgeons on all current concepts and controversies related to both open and arthroscopic shoulder surgery, live surgeries, ultrasound workshops for shoulder evaluation and practice of modern cutting-edge techniques on cadaveric specimens. By the end of this course, surgeons will be able to:

• Understand all current rotator cuff repair techniques for partial, full thickness and massive tears
• Comprehend all current irreparable tears treatment options (growth factors, spacers, graft augmentation, tendon transfers)
• Understand all current shoulder instability treatment techniques including all current complex instability treatment alternatives like labral repairs, tendon transfers, bone grafts and coracoid transfer procedures
• Comprehend athletes’ shoulder injuries and pathology including acromio-clavicular dislocations
• Understand current controversies and apply current concepts to shoulder arthroplasty
• Familiarize themselves with the outcomes and postoperative complications following anatomic and reverse shoulder arthroplasty surgeries and develop strategies for revising failed shoulder arthroplasties
• Apply innovative shoulder disorders evaluation and management methods
• Assimilate the principles of ultrasound shoulder evaluation

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.