Dear Friends & Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Spring Congress of the Belgian Hand Group, which will take place on Saturday, May 30.

Congress Location: Domaine de la Bataille de Waterloo

We invite you to join us at an enriching and memorable congress.

Warm regards,

The Organising Committee
Bernard Lefebvre

Registration fee
BHG Members: 100,00€
Non-Member: 150,00€
Resident & Fellow: 60,00€

Programme Overview

07:30 - Registration & Visit the Exhibitors

08:15 - Introduction - Bernard Lefebvre

08:30 - Session 1 – Arthroplasty
08:30 - To Extract or To Implant in Basal Joint Arthritis? A Million-Dollar Question - Ilse Degreef
08:45 - How to preserve the TMC prosthesis with instable cup - Chul Ki Goorens
09:00 - Multicenter study on CMC1 touch plus STT fusion - TBC
09:15 - Discussion

09:45 - Coffee Break and visit the Exhibitors

10:15 - Session 2 – Sonography and Walant
10:15 - The Battle for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• 10:15 - Standard Surgery - Nader Chahidi
• 10:30 - Ultrasound-Guided Surgery - Fabian Moungondo
• 10:45 - Discussion
  11:00 - The Battle for the Trigger Finger
• 11:00 - Standard Surgery - Nadine Hollevoet
• 11:15 - Ultrasound Guided Surgery - Barbara Ghistelinck & Claire Gauthier
• 11:30 - Discussion
  11:45 - Complex wrist Surgery under Wallant - Jean-Paul Brutus

12:00 Session 3: Free Papers
12:00 - Midterm Outcome of all dorsalaugmented SL lig reconstruction for chronic SL instability - Niels Debaenst
12:10 - Arthroscopic single combined foveal and peripheral suture TFCC tear - Xavier Berende

12:30 - Lunch Break and visit the Exhibitors

13:30 - Skill lab Echography & BHG General Assembly

14:00 - Session 4 – War Traumatology
14:00 - Concept of balistics - Nathalie Hocq
14:20 - The Belgian experience in treating hand trauma in precarious environments - Ruben Jacobs
14:40 - Experience in treating hand problems in burn patients - Vincent Druez

15:00 - Session 5 – History
15:00 - The history of the Carpus - Emmanuel Camus
15:30 - From East London to Brussels: The history of the foream - Olivier Delaere

16:00 - Coffee Break and visit the Exhibitors

16:30 - Session 4 – Radioprotection
16:30 - Radiation protection and medical radiophysics - Milan Tomsej

18:30 - End of day

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