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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This CME program is open to orthopaedic surgeons, residents, physiotherapists, nurses, and members of the orthopaedic and allied health industries.
This 4-day course includes:

• lectures by leading shoulder surgeons from around the world on all current concepts and controversies related to both open and arthroscopic shoulder surgery
• live and relive surgeries
• technique videos
• debates
• case challenges
• interactive discussion sessions
• ultrasound workshops for shoulder evaluation
• practice of modern cutting-edge techniques which participants choose in advance on cadaver specimens. 

By the end of this course, surgeons will be able to: 

• Understand all current rotator cuff repair techniques for partial, full-thickness and massive tears
• Comprehend all current treatment options for the management of irreparable rotator cuff tears (growth factors, spacers, SCR, graft augmentation, tendon transfers)
• Understand all current treatment techniques for shoulder instability including all current complex instability treatment alternatives (labral repairs, remplissage, bone grafts and coracoid transfer procedures
• Comprehend athletes’ shoulder injuries and pathology including acromioclavicular joint dislocations
• Understand current controversies and apply current concepts to shoulder arthroplasty
• Learn all about patients’ specific instruments and robotics and familiarized themselves with the new digitized era of shoulder surgery
• Familiarize themselves with the outcomes and postoperative complications following anatomic and reverse shoulder arthroplasty surgeries and develop strategies for revising failed shoulder arthroplasties
• Be capable to apply innovative methods for the evaluation and management of shoulder disorders
• Assimilate the principles of ultrasound shoulder evaluation

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

• Shoulder Arthroscopy
• Shoulder Arthroplasty
• Shoulder Instability
• Complex Shoulder Instability
• Rotator Cuff Tears
• Massive Rotator cuff tears 
• Irreparable massive rotator cuff tears
• The athletic shoulder
• Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
• Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
• PSI and Shoulder Robotics
• Revision Shoulder Arthroplasty 

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT
The 4th ATHENS SHOULDER COURSE, Athens, Greece, 05/02/2020-08/02/2020 has applied to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) for CME credits (ECMEC®s). 

For more information go to www.athens-shoulder-course.com 

Athens Shoulder Course is held under the auspices of ISAKOS, ESSKA, AGA, Hellenic Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hellenic Arthroscopy Association and the College of Greek Orthopaedic Surgeons.