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Chronic knee problems – What’s new?
Continuous education online via Winglet
From Bauerfeind Life on 07.08.2024
As an “ongoing patient”, the knee needs particular care and considerate risk management when it comes to treatment. The digital expert panel #145: Chronic knee problems – What’s new? on Winglet discusses treatment options as well as multi-factor settings and considers current trends and hypes. This continuing education event supported by Bauerfeind is available online as a recording.
The presentations are in German, English simultaneous interpretation can be selected as an audio track.
Osteoarthritis – Patellofemoral pain syndrome – Meniscus damage – Joint replacement
Dr. med. univ. Rainer Fiala (Donaustadt Hospital, Vienna) and Associate Professor Dr. med. Philip Rößler (Mittelrhein Joint Center) will compere this two-part event. Dr. Fiala will open the first part with a presentation about early detection and conservative treatment options in cases of osteoarthritis of the knee. Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Pap (Center for Musculoskeletal Medicine at Münster University) will follow with the subject of restoration and the regenerative capability of cartilage. Associate Professor Dr. med. Philip Rößler (Mittelrhein Joint Center) will talk about patellofemoral pain syndrome, presenting, for example, AI-based options for precise diagnosis and treatment.
Prof. h.c. PD Dr. med. Matthias Steinwachs (Zurich SportClinic, Switzerland) will begin the second part of the event with a closer look at the structure in “Meniscus and cartilage – friends or foes?”. Prof. Dr. med. Philipp Niemeyer (Orthopedic Surgery in Munich) will talk about the leg axis as a fundamental element of joint preservation, and Dr. med. Matthias Buhs (Practice Dr. Buhs and North German Cartilage Center, Quickborn) will discuss joint replacement, specifically in unhappy knee prosthesis patients, and how patient-specific treatment can be a part of the solution.
Continuing Medical Education
This continuous education event lasting 90 minutes is aimed at specialists in orthopedics, surgery, and sports medicine; physicians specializing in physical and rehabilitative medicine as well as general practitioners and internists with an additional qualification in sports medicine.
Interested parties can register free of charge on the Winglet platform, watch the continuing education event via video-on-demand and select English simultaneous interpretation as an audio track.
Physicians based in Germany can complete the associated knowledge quiz by June 3, 2025 and will receive three CME points alongside the certificate. Physicians who are not situated in Germany can hand in their certificate to a local medical association or similar institution for the recognition of credits.