Spring BHG Congress

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

08:20 - Introduction - Bernard Lefebvre

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

09:30 - Coffee Break and visit the Exhibitors

10:00 - Session 2 – Sonography and Walant - Moderator: Nadine Hollevoet & Fabian Moungondo
10:00 - The Battle for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

10:00 - Standard Surgery - Nader Chahidi
10:15 - Ultrasound-Guided Surgery - Fabian Moungondo
10:30 - Discussion

10:45 - The Battle for the Trigger Finger

10:45 - Standard Surgery - Nadine Hollevoet
11:00 - Ultrasound Guided Surgery - Barbara Ghistelinck & Claire Gauthier
11:15 - Discussion

11:30 - Complex wrist Surgery under Wallant - Jean-Paul Brutus

11:45 Session 3: Free Papers - Moderator: Ilse Degreef & Chul Ki Goorens
11:45 - Intramedullary headless compression screw fixation in metacarpal fractures - Margaux Lowyck
11:53 - Arthroscopic single combined foveal and peripheral suture TFCC tear - Xavier Berende
12:01 - Adalimumab in Dupuytren - Jonas Brouwers
12:09 - Digit replantation: current concepts, controversies and updates - Hachem Chaitani
12:17 - Comparison of two techniques for pseudarthrosis of the scaphoid bone - Maya Ramos
12:25 - Discussion

12:30 - Lunch Break and visit the Exhibitors

13:00 - Skill lab Echography & BHG General Assembly

14:00 - Session 4 – War Traumatology - Moderator: Philippe Hoang
14:00 - The contribution by Domminique-Jean Larey: the chief surgeon of the Imperial Guard - Philippe Hoang
14:10 - Concept of balistics - Nathalie Hock
14:30 - The Belgian experience in treating hand trauma in precarious environments - Ruben Jacobs
14:50 - Experience in treating hand problems in burn patients - Vincent Druez
15:10 - Discussion

15:20 - Session 5 – History - Moderator: Luc Van Overstraeten
15:20 - The history of the Carpus - Emmanuel Camus
15:50 - From East London to Brussels: The history of the foream - Olivier Delaere

16:20 - Coffee Break and visit the Exhibitors

16:40 - Session 4 – Radioprotection
16:40 - Radiation protection and medical radiophysics - Milan Tomsej

18:40 - End of day