BOFAS News & Events

This pages lists all the latest news and upcoming events.

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BOFAS Surveys Results

Now Live

24 March 2022

The results of BOFAS surveys to the membership which have been published / presented can now be viewed here.

BOFAS 2022 Recap

BOFAS 2022 is over, but you can catch up here!

19 March 2022

EFAS Lyon 2021 - Hybrid Annual Meeting

October 21-22-23 - Combined Face to Face and Virtual Meeting

01 October 2021

The EFAS Congress Lyon 2021 will be the first hybrid congress from the European Foot and Ankle Society.

EFAS hopes BOFAS members and others will join them in person for 3 amazing days of congress, to meet each other and exchange ideas, but in the current climate going abroad might still be difficult. EFAS would therefore like to extend the opportunity for all to be part of the congress by going HYBRID for the first time.

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BOFAS Hosted Events

2Oct2025

BOFAS Principles Course - Dubai

02/10/2025 - 04/10/2025

The aim is to give Overseas Trainee Orthopaedic Surgeons a solid grounding in the principles and the decision making in Foot & Ankle Surgery.

There is an emphasis on clinical examination of cases, small group discussions and learning surgical approaches in the cadaver lab.

This is the first course BOFAS is running in UAE and the aim is to expand the Foot and Ankle education and training in the Middle East and Gulf area.

Venue - Le Meridien, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Documents to download

ACv3BOFAS-Principles-Course-Programme-DXB(.pdf, 2.13 MB) - 431 download(s)

20Oct2025

BOFAS Principles Course Taunton

20/10/2025 - 21/10/2025

These courses are aimed at Higher Surgical Trainees / ST3 onwards and are designed to teach the core of Foot and Ankle surgery in an informal and interactive environment. The emphasis is on clinical examination cases, discussion groups and typical day-to-day clinic scenarios. Although not an exam preparation course, content is taught to the standard expected in the FRCS(Tr & Orth) exam; that of a day-one non-specialist orthopaedic consultant. Applications will open on 1st September 2023.

Venue - Taunton (TBC)

Documents to download

BOFAS-Course-Programme--Taunton-2025(.docx, 31.88 KB) - 713 download(s)

BOFAS Affiliated Courses

Other External Events / Courses

Togay Koç / 24 March 2025

/ Categories: Abstracts, 2025-Jan, Podium

Clinical comparison of fixed bearing versus mobile bearing total ankle replacement

S Bitar, J Davenport, M Karski, J Ring, R Smith, T Clough

Aims: We compared the clinical outcomes of a fixed bearing (Infinity) and a mobile bearing (Zenith) ankle replacement in a demographically similar group of patients, from a single, non designer centre.

Methods: Between December 2010 and May 2016, 118 consecutive mobile bearing prostheses (Zenith) and between September 2017 and November 2019, 118 consecutive fixed bearing (Infinity) prostheses were implanted in a total cohort of 230 patients. Demographic, clinical, and patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) data were collected. The end point of the study was failure of the implant requiring revision of one or more of the components. Kaplan Meier survival tables were generated.

Results: Demographics were similar for both groups (age, pre-operative arthritic diagnosis and co-morbidities). 32 patients (36 ankles) died during follow-up, but none required revision. Of the surviving 198 patients (200 ankles; 93 Zenith, 107 Infinity), mean follow-up was 9.1 years (6.0 - 13.1 years) for Zenith and 5.0 years for Infinity (3.6 €“ 6.8 years). A total of 11 implants (9.3%) failed for Zenith and 1 implant (0.8%) failed for Infinity, requiring revision. Average time to failure for Zenith was 3.4 years (0.4 - 10.5 years) and the time to failure for Infinity was 4.1 years. Implant survival at five years, using revision as an endpoint, was 91.3% for Zenith and 98.7% for Infinity. There was a mean improvement in Manchester-Oxford Foot and Ankle Questionnaire (MOXFQ) from 85.0 to 32.8 for Zenith and 79.3 to 26.4 for Infinity, and visual analogue scale (VAS) scores from 7.0 to 3.2 for Zenith and 6.9 to 2.7 for Infinity. The commonest reason for revision was aseptic loosening for both implants.

Conclusion: Our results show a significantly better survivorship for the fixed bearing over the mobile bearing prosthesis. Whilst the fixed bearing prosthesis had better PROMS scores, this was not significant.