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EFAS Lyon 2021 - Hybrid Annual Meeting

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

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

BOFAS Principles Course - Dubai

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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

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BOFAS Principles Course Taunton

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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)

 

 

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Inverted and everted slope walking leads to increased knee compensation in ankle fusion compared to total ankle replacement

N.Z Safdar, G. Chapman, J. Hopwood, C. Brockett, A. Redmond

Background: Ankle fusion (AF), a durable intervention for ankle arthritis, has been the management of choice but restricts mobility. Recently, total ankle replacement (TAR) has been offered to patients looking to maintain mobility. The aim was to compare the biomechanics of AF and TAR while walking on inverted and everted slopes which create a greater demand for complex foot mobility than level walking. 

Methods: A ten-camera motion detection setup captured trials as patients walked in both directions over a 5⁰ lateral slope with embedded force plates. Moments (Nm/Kg) across the knee and ankle were exported from Visual 3D in the sagittal and frontal plane, and data were reported as means with 95% confidence intervals.

Results: 15 patients were recruited (6 TAR, 9 AF). The median age, follow-up and BMI was 67 years, 4 years and 35.8 kg/m² in AF, and 73 years, 7 years and 28.1 kg/m² in TAR, respectively. During inverted slope walking (4 TAR, 7 AF), abduction moments across (i) the knee: TAR 0.38 (0.37-0.39) vs AF 0.37 (0.27-0.52) and (ii) the ankle: TAR 0.20 (0.13-0.27) vs AF 0.25 (0.18-0.32), and extension moments across (i) the knee: TAR 0.68 (0.38-0.97) vs AF 0.85 (0.69-1.01) and (ii) the ankle: TAR 1.46 (1.30-1.62) vs AF 1.30 (1.08-1.52). During everted walking (5 TAR, 7 AF), abduction moments across (i) the knee: TAR 0.41 (0.30-0.52) vs AF 0.46 (0.27-0.66) and (ii) the ankle: TAR 0.24 (0.11-0.38) vs AF 0.26 (0.18-0.33), and extension moments across (i) the knee: TAR 0.76 (0.54-0.99) vs AF 0.93 (0.72-1.14) and (ii) the ankle: TAR 1.39 (1.19-1.59) vs AF 1.26 (1.04-1.48).

Conclusions: There were no differences in abduction moments during inverted or everted slope walking. However, patients with AF had increased extension moments across the knee, particularly on inverted slopes, suggesting that AF creates a greater demand for knee compensation than TAR.

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