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ISAKOS Awards for Hips and Patellofemoral Pain

In June at the 8th Biennial ISAKOS Congress in Rio, we were delighted to support the Achilles Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Research Award and the Patellofemoral Travelling Fellowships for 2011 and 2012.

DJO supported the Achilles Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Research Award which was won by Victoria Duthon, MD from University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland and her nine colleagues. The Award recognizes outstanding clinical or laboratory research in the field of sports medicine. Each submission was reviewed by a panel composed of members from the ISAKOS Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Committee. The winning paper, 'Correlation of Clinical and MRI findings in Professional Dancers' Hip: A New Femoro-Acetabular Impingement', was presented by Victoria at the Congress.

With ballet dancers using extreme hip ROM to achieve perfect ballet technique, many experience hip pain while dancing and are at higher risk of early onset of hip OA which could be due to repetitive extreme movements leading to recurrent femoro-acetabular impingements (FAI) and subluxations. The study set out to establish whether dancers had special bone morphology which allowed extreme movement, to define a dancer’s hip lesions using MRI which was correlated with symptoms and to assess femoroacetabular joint congruency during the ‘splits’. The full paper is available here.

We jointly sponsor The Patellofemoral Traveling Fellowship with the Patellofemoral Foundation. The 2011 and 2012 Fellows selected by representatives of the ISAKOS Knee Committee and The Patellofemoral Foundation are Ashraf Abdelkafy MD (2011) and  Geraldo Luiz Schuck De Freitas, MD (2012). The Fellowship is open to orthopaedic surgeons with an established academic record of accomplishment who are interested in the study and advancement of understanding of the patellofemoral joint.

Ashraf Abdelkafy MD is Consultant & Lecturer of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. He said: “In my country, the problems relating to the patellofemoral joint are increasing especially in young people, which is why I'm looking forward to my Fellowship which I know will benefit not only my patients, but also my country.”

2012 Fellow, Geraldo Luiz Schuck De Freitas, MD, is a knee surgeon and lecturer at the Dept. of Orthopaedic and Traumatology at Santa Casa de Porto Alegre Hospital (University Hospital), in Brazil. He said: “I believe that patellofemoral dysfunction is the greatest challenge in knee surgery. As I teach knee surgery to the orthopedics residents I want to share with them my experiences and to stimulate their interest in the study of the patellofemoral joint. I am so looking forward to improving my knowledge in patellofemoral dysfunction.”

Following a tour to several centres worldwide, each Fellow will write a report of his experience to present at the next ISAKOS Congress in 2013, which will also be submitted for possible publication in Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery.

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