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INTERNATIONAL
SOCIETY FOR PROSTHETICS
AND ORTHOTICS
ADVANCED COURSE ON BELOW-KNEE
AND THROUGH-KNEE
AMPUTATIONS AND PROSTHETICS
May 10-13,1982,
Place:
Hotel Hvide Hus, K0ge near Copenhagen.
Course Director:
J. Steen Jensen, Dr.med.sc.
Course Secretary:
Aase Larsson
Accommodation:
Includes 5 overnights, 4 luncheons, 3 dinners and course dinner. Social event will be arranged.
Number of participants:
max, 100.
Further Information:
I.S.P.O. Secretariat, Borgervaenget 5, DK 2100 Copenhagen 0, Denmark Telephone (01) 20 72 60,
Telegrams: INTERSOCPO
Application:
Please use attached registration form and pay course fee and accommodation as soon as possible, but not
later than 31 March, 1982.
Course Items:
A thorough description of all aspects of amputations through the knee and be low-knee is emphasized.
The following subjects will be highlighted by outstanding international lectures and supplemented by
extensive discussions:
Epidemiology, level determination, amputation technique, postoperative stump treatment,
postoperative physiotherapy, early mobility training, wound healing complications, physiology of the
BK-stump, biomechanics, TK-and Syme-prosthesis, variations of sockets for the BK-stumps, casting
methods, materials and component parts, rehabilitation of amputees, management of the problem
stump.
Instructors:
North America:
Great Britain:
Sweden:
Denmark:
E. M. Burgess, R. I. Ghiualamila, A. Staros, F. W. Wagner, J. H. Zettl.
N. Berme, J. Hughes, P. A. Isherwood, J. McCoughlan, A. W. McQuirk,
G. Murdoch, R. Redhead.
K. Buring, S. Carlsson, S. Grevsten, E. Liedberg, A. Magnusson,
B. M. Persson, P. Renstrom, K. 0berg.
B. Ebskov, P. Holstein, K. Jansen, J. Steen Jensen, E. Lyquist.
W. Germany: U. Boenich, W. Holter, E. Marquardt, G. Neff, W. Roth.
Canada:
G. Mensch.
Switzerland:
R. Baumgartner.
France:
W. Kegel.
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