European Society of Sports Traumatology
Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy

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Welcome to ESSKA

The future is ours !

ESSKA, founded in 1984 in Berlin, has ever since been dedicated to education, research and the clinical and scientific exchange between the various European countries in the fields of knee surgery, arthroscopy and sports traumatology. 24 years later, the society is established as a European leader in orthopaedic sports medicine.

As the President of the new ESSKA Board, it will be my privilege to lead our organization for the coming two years. We will stay on course with our dedication to education, research and the exchange of clinical and scientific information.

An area which the Board will prioritize is the issue of subspeciality in Sports Tramatology and Sports medicine within the EU. Here we will work on creating a curriculum, achieving accreditation and achieving certification. This represents long term goals for the Board and we will work with many of the committees and their expertise.

Another designated area will be journal cooperation with major European Orthopaedic Sport Medicine Societies such as AGA, GOTS, SIGASCOT and SFA. The Board will work hard to strengthen our journal and increase the distribution through joint ventures.

I also take this opportunity to welcome our new editor team Rene Verdonk and Jon Karlsson. Both are distinguished scientists with a high number of publications and long term service in various journal editorial boards. They will have full support from the ESSKA Board which sees the KSSTA journal as our flag ship!

Our new website will ad substantial value for our members: there will be a members-only section, online education, educational tools, flash conferences, podcasts and much more

We do feel that ESSKA now has much to offer - follow the development by visiting regularly www.esska.org !

Lars Engebretsen
ESSKA
President

Current Events

1st Arthroscopic Shoulder Course

1st Arthroscopic Shoulder Course
organized by the Upper Limb Committee of ESSKA

October 31 & November 1, 2008
Athens, GREECE
www.esskacourse.gr

Main topics:

Cadaveric workshops
Model workshops
Live surgery
Shoulder imaging
Interactive lecture

Scientific programme

14th ESSKA Congress OSLO 2010

14th ESSKA Congress
June 9-12, 2010 • Oslo/Norway
www.esska2010.com

ESSKA President
Lars Engebretsen, Norway

Programme Chairmen
Jon Karlsson, Sweden
Jacques Menetrey, Switzerland

Venue
Oslo Spektrum and Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel
Oslo/Norway

ESSKA-ISAKOS Standard Terminology project:

definitions, classification and scorting sytems for arthoscopy

ISAKOS Download ESSKA ISAKOS Standard Terminilogy Project
As a chairman of the ESSKA Arthroscopy Committee it was André Frank that launched the idea of a standard terminology within ESSKA. As his successor on the ESSKA Arthroscopy Committee I soon experienced the magnitude of this task. Moreover I felt it would be important to involve ISAKOS. Speaking the same scientific language is a worldwide wish. I therefore made it my primary goal to get this project running. I am very pleased to present you the result of our combined efforts. I am particularly happy with the collaboration of ESSKA and ISAKOS in this project.