Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand and the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSSH + IFSHT 2028)

Key Topics

• Clinical Research in the Upper Extremity
  • Limitations in clinical research: evidence vs. eminence
  • Conclusions from evidence-based studies and clinical trials
  • Patient registries in hand surgery
  • Designing multi-center trials
  • Patient-reported outcomes
  • Systematic reviews
• Consensus Opinions on Optimal Treatment and Clinical Care
  • Efficiency in your clinical practice
  • Keynote lectures on "What Works Around the World"
  • Collaborating with hand therapists
  • Incorporating physician extenders
  • Cost-containment in your hand surgery practice
  • Optimal use of anesthesia in hand surgery
• Unsolved Hand Problems
  • Mutilating hand injuries
  • Scapholunate ligament instability
  • Complex contractures
  • Ulnar-sided wrist pain
  • Congenital absence
  • Chronic denervation
• Hand Surgery Controversies
  • Different treatment algorithms around the world
  • Classic debates
  • Operations we should no longer do
  • Long-term follow-up of classic papers
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Technological failures in hand surgery
• The Future of Hand Surgery Research and Technology
  • Nerve/muscle regeneration
  • Transplantation and prosthetics
  • The promise of stem cells and tissue engineering
  • Robotics in hand surgery
  • Supramicrosurgery
  • Artificial intelligence and precision medicine
• Innovation in Hand Surgery Education
  • Evolving education paradigms
  • What I learned from my mentor
  • Online hand surgery education
  • Hand surgery simulation
  • Training hand surgeons in the developing world
  • Optimal training and certification in hand surgery
• Therapy Program
  • Optimizing outcome following wrist and forearm fractures
  • Treatment following multiple trauma
  • Approaches to distal radioulnar joint injury
  • Therapy following elbow injury and surgery
  • Differential diagnoses and treatment for nerve entrapment
  • Rehabilitation of wrist ligament injuries
  • Updates to flexor tendon rehabilitation
  • Approaches to treatment of extensor tendon imbalance in the finger
  • Principles and techniques