Agenda

Friday, February 20th

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Multi-multidisciplinary case-based symposia

8:00-8:50 AM: Pediatrci ACL
- How to improve acute diagnosis (not missing ACL tears) by better educating trainers, coaches, PCP’s, etc
- What’s new in imaging
- Strategies in assessing growth remaining
- Treatment options in the immature patient
- Reducing re-injury risk

8:50-9:40 AM: OCD knee
- Overview of ROCK
- Imaging
- Rehabilitation
- Treatment options

9:40-10:30 AM: Concussion
- Diagnosis
- Role, utilization and limitations of computerized neuro-cognitive testing for sports concussions
- Should children continue to head in soccer?
- Protective equipment
- Laws, rules, and their effects

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Instructional Courses

10:45-11:05 AM: MSK Ultrasound: newly evolving uses in peds sports
- Diagnostics
- Treatment
- Fat pad impingement?

11:25-11:45 AM: Tibial Spine fractures
- Rehab after fixation – how do we study this?
- Risk of ACL tear later?
- Contracture cause?

11:45-12:05 PM: Overuse injuries of the upper extremity in the pediatric upper extremity: Beyond Little League shoulder and Elbow

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Research, Registries, and Multi-center trials: part 1

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Oral Papers

7:30 PM: Networking Reception

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Multi-multidisciplinary case based symposia

9:00-9:30 AM: Pesky Ossicles
- Locations: Tibial Tubercle, Medical Epicondyle, Base of the 5th, Os Naviculare, Os Trigonum, Os Acromiale, Bipartite Patella
- Imaging options – edema related to pain?
- MB on Os Trigonum
- Treatment options
  - Injections
  - When do you consider excision?
  - ORIF? e.g. os acromiale, bipartite

9:30-10:00 AM: Shoulder Instability
- First time dislocation
- Open Bankart repairs
- What constitutes good PT?
- Can it wait until the end of the FB season?
- Imaging
- How to get through the rest of the season?

10:00-10:30 AM: Throwing problems of the immature elbow
- Entities:
  - Medial epicondylar Apophysitis
  - Medial epicondyle fractures
  - UCL injuries in young athletes
  - OCD capitellum
- Challenges
  - Baseball rules/issues which contribute to overuse including
  - Guidelines for when to allow limited throwing while playing infield positions, when to bat, etc.
- Treatment
  - Op an non-op management
  - Use of high-speed video analysis: the common mechanical flaws that increase valgus stresses at the elbow

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Instructional Courses

10:45-11:05 AM: Primary repair of the ACL – state of the art
- PT for the first time dislocate

11:10-11:40 AM: ACL injury prevention
- Epidemiology of ACL injury
- Evidence based review of ACL injury prevention programs
- Common components to ACL prevention programs
- Impact on youth sports
- Prevent injury vs. prevent reinjury
- Strategies you can take home with you

11:40-12:00 PM: MDI Shoulder
- Most common presentations
- What should constitute “a trial of PT”?
- Surgical options
- Surgical tips and pitfalls
- How to better manage the patients long after surgery
- Genetics, primary care doc with expertise on EDS??

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Oral Papers

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Research, Registries, and Multi-center trials: part 2

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Collaboration and Research planning

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Program Committee & Board of Directors Meetings