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

 14th ESSKA Congress in Oslo /NORWAY, June 9-12, 2010

2nd Announcement

Current Events

Invitation General Assembly 2010


INVITATION TO:
ESSKA GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2010

Friday, 11 June 2010
From 11:00 – 12:00 am
Plenary Room

14th ESSKA Congress in OSLO, Norway




Agenda:

1.    OPENING AND WELCOME ADDRESS
2.    APPROVAL OF THE REPORT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2008 (PORTO, PORTUGAL; PUBLISHED IN SPRING NEWSLETTER 2010)
3.    PRESIDENT’S REPORT – L ENGEBRETSEN
4.    SECRETARY GENERAL’S REPORT – R SEIL
5.    TREASURER’S REPORT – M DENTI
5.    EDUCATIONAL SECRETARY’S REPORT – P DJIAN
6.    ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS – ASSEMBLY
7.    REPORT OF THE EDITOR IN CHIEF – J KARLSSON/R VERDONK
8.    WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE NEW PRESIDENT – N VAN DIJK
9.    ADJOURN

All Ordinary ESSKA members, whose subscriptions are in order, are kindly invited to attend the General Assembly 2010!

Next 2nd Vice-President 2010-2012 - Call for proposals - Deadline 31.01.2010

UPDATE 08.02.2010

The Nominating Committee will be composed by:

  • Daniel FRITSCHY (Past President)
  • Joao ESPREGUEIRA-MENDES (2nd Vice-President)
  • Karl-Peter BENEDETTO (member)
  • Dieter KOHN (member)

 

 

Dear ESSKA members,

The position of the ESSKA 2nd Vice-President for the period 2010 - 2012 will be appointed at the next General Assembly (Friday, 11th June 2010 in Oslo).


In order to guarantee transparency and democracy in the nomination process, every ordinary ESSKA member is invited to bring forward proposals for this position according to the following rules:

 

 

Nominating Committee:

The ESSKA Nominating Committee is the responsible body for the designation of the new 2nd Vice-President at each General Assembly.


The Nominating Committee is chaired by the ESSKA Past President and comprises the ESSKA 2nd Vice-President and 2 further candidates, to be selected by the Past President and the 2nd Vice-President among the submitted applications/proposals.


Procedure:

* Every ordinary ESSKA member has the right to apply himself or to propose another ordinary ESSKA member to be part of the Nominating Committee.


* Every ordinary ESSKA member has the right to bring forward one proposal for the position of the new 2nd Vice-President.


* The Nominating Committee shall choose among the proposed names the successor of the 2nd Vice-President and shall officially suggest this name to the ESSKA Main Board on their meeting prior to the General Assembly. After ratification by the Main Board, the new 2nd Vice-President shall be officially appointed at the General Assembly.


Deadline for the application and/or proposals of names:
January 31st, 2010


Please address all proposals to:

ESSKA Executive Office
Ms. Sandy Kirsch
76, rue d´Eich
L-1460 Luxembourg


e-mail: kirsch.sandy@chl.lu
Fax: (+352) 4411 - 7678

 

 

EFORT meetings 2010

11th EFORT Congress 2-5 June 2010 in Madrid, Spain

The 11th EFORT Congress will be held in association with the Spanish Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society (SECOT).

ESSKA session in Madrid 2010

Friday, June 4th

 

8:30 – 9:15     ESSKA symposium: What is new in cartilage repair ?

(Mini-symposium: 45')

Chairman: Henning Madry (D) hmad@hotmail.com

 

9:15 – 10.00   ESSKA symposium: Antero-inferior bone reconstruction for anterior shoulder instability (Mini-symposium: 45')

Chairmen: Ettore Taverna (I) / Pascal Gleyse (F)

 

10.00 – 10.30  ESSKA symposium: TKA in sports (Mini-symposium: 30')

Chaiman: Michel Bonnin (F)

 

14:30 – 16:00 Symposium: How to improve results in ACL reconstruction

EFORT Symposium in cooperation with ESSKA

(Symposium 90’)

Chairmen: Jacques Menetrey (CH) /Joao Espregueira-Mendes  (Por) 

 

The good indication ! :

Jacques Menetrey (CH) jacques.menetrey@hcuge.ch

 

Can we improve the surgical technique:

TBD (spanish colleague contacted)

 

How to improve graft healing and incorporation ?

Sven Scheffler (D) sven.scheffler@charite.de

 

Improvement in rehabilitation

Joao Espregueira-Mendes  (Por) joaoespregueira@netcabo.pt

 

 

 

 

ExMEx Forum 22-23 April 2010 in Bologna, Italy

ESSKA approved patronage for this highly specialised forum on Advanced Treatment of Sports Related Industry.

Please check the detailed scientific programme here.

ESSKA members are granted a reduced entrance fee of 350 € instead of 390 € if they register until April, 2nd 2010.

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 scoring sytems for arthoscopy

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.