Interactive workshop with hands-on teaching

Participants learn:

• how to find and assess peripheral nerves – the big and the small ones no matter where they are located in the body basing on our “landmarking technique”
• the clinical impact of nerve sonography as a first line diagnostic and imaging tool for peripheral nerve pathology: “find it to fix it”!
• about the role of high resolution nerve sonography in the diagnostic algorithm even for special peripheral nerve pathologies as e.g. polyneuropathies, inflammatory neuropathies, peripheral nerve trauma and mass assessment.
• about options for interventional high resolution nerve sonography in pain therapy.
  by hands-on workshops under individual tutorials how peripheral nerve sonography works: “try it out”!

Target Groups
Doctors-in-Training and Specialists of any medical field with interest in peripheral nerve imaging and high resolution peripheral nerve sonography.

➔ CME credits: applied 17 points 

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Friday, June 14^th

• 09:00
  Welcome
• 09:10 – 09:50
  Brachial Plexus and nerves of the neck (US-Anatomy and Live Demo)
  PD Dr. Alexander Loizides, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 09:50 – 10:10
  Technical innovations and high frequent sonography: what else?
  Helmut Oberherber, Applicationspecialist, Canon Medical Systems, Austria
• 10:10 – 10:40
  Sonography vs Electrodiagnostics in focal neuropathies – what do I need and when?
  Prof. Dr. Simon Podnar, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Division of Neurology, Slovenia
• 10:40 – 11:10
  Coffee Break
• 11:10 – 11:50
  Nerves of the upper extremity (US-Anatomy and Live-Demo)
  PD Dr. Alexander Loizides, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 11:50 – 12:20
  Neuromuscular ultrasound in neuropathies: a new, large and amazing field!
  PD Dr. Alexander Grimm, University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Neurology, Germany
• 12:20 –13:00
  Nerves of the groin (US-Anatomy and Live-Demo)
  PD Dr. Hannes Gruber, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 13:00 –14:00
  Lunch
• 14:00 –18:00
  Hands-on Workshops

Saturday, June 15^th

• 09:00 – 09:40
  Nerves of the lower extremity (US-Anatomy and Live-Demo)
  PD Dr. Hannes Gruber, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 09:50 –10:00
  Musculoskeletal ultrasound: anatomy and mimics of neuropathies
  Dr. Michaela Plaikner, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 10:00 –10:40
  Traumatic and iatrogenic nerve lesions: you would have never thought of that!
  Prof. Dr. Simon Podnar, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Division of Neurology, Slovenia
  PD Dr. Alexander Loizides, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 10:40 –11:00
  Nodules of this and that: act and react!
  PD Dr. Hannes Gruber, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 11:00 –11:30
  Coffee Break

Pain session and Regenerative Medicine

• 11:30 –11:50
  US-guided interventions of the peripheral nervous system: put the right thing at the right place!
  Dr. Elisabeth Skalla, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 11:50 –12:20
  The ‘truth’ of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
  Dr. Ralph Rogers, MD PhD MBA, Regenerative Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Harley Street Clinic, London, UK
• 12:20 –12:50
  Ultrasound-guided spinal injections: forget X-rays!
  PD Dr. Alexander Loizides, Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Radiology, Austria
• 12:50 – 13:10
  Why Lipogems is the best lipoaspirate for regeneration
  Prof. Dr. Carlo Tremolada, Instituto Image, Milan, Italy
• 13:10 – 14:00
  Lunch
• 14:00 – 17:00
  Hands-on Workshops