Program
Upper Extremity – April 10, 2025
Demonstrations include live (recorded) decomstrations. Some will be performed live during the course, while others include video’s of demonstrations of our previous courses (2023, 2024) with live comments.
7:45
Registration
8:00
Welcome and introduction
8:05
Median nerve compression
- Demonstration: Upper extremity nerve anatomy
- Demonstration: Surgical options for recurrent median nerve compression
- Presentation: Proximal median nerve release (lacertus and deep)
- Demonstration: (endoscopic) proximal median nerve release
- Dissection: Neurolysis median nerve and coverage with ADQ muscle
- Dissection: (endoscopic) decompression of the proximal median nerve
9:50
Coffee/tea break
10:10
Ulnar nerve compression
- Presentation: Anatomy of ulnar nerve compression and surgical treatment options
- Demonstration: Endoscopic ulnar nerve decompression
- Demonstration: Submuscular transposition of the ulnar nerve with AIN SETS
- Dissection: Endoscopic ulnar nerve decompression
- Dissection: Submuscular transposition of the ulnar nerve with AIN SETS
11:40
Nerve injury and neuromas
- Presentation: Surgical strategies for painful neuromas: TMR, muscle burying and RPNI
- Demonstration: TMR and RPNI for radial sensory nerve and lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve
12:05
Lunch break
13:05
Nerve injury and neuromas
- Presentation: Classical options for reconstruction using allograft or autograft
- Demonstration: nerve reconstruction using auto- and allograft
- Dissection: Nerve reconstruction using graft for digital nerves and cutaneous nerves in the forearm
- Dissection: TMR and RPNI for radial sensory nerve and lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve
14:45
Coffee/tea break
15:05
Nerve injury and neuromas
- Presentation: Wrist denervation
- Presentation: Functional reconstruction using motor nerve transfers, including (allo)graft
- Demonstration: Functional reconstruction using motor nerve transfers, including (allo)graft
- Dissection: Motor nerve transfer median nerve branches to radial nerve
- Dissection: Wrist denervation
- Dissection: Nerve stimulator
17:30
Closing, evaluation forms, certificates
17:45
Drinks and snacks
19:30
Social event; food and drinks
Lower Extremity – April 11, 2025
7:45
Registration
8:00
Welcome and introduction
8:05
Compression neuropathies
- Presentation: Introduction to lower limb nerve surgery
- Demonstration: Lower extremity nerve anatomy
- Presentation: Decompression of lower extremity nerves
- Demonstration: Lower extremity nerve decompression surgery at 5 locations
- Presentation: Meralgia paresthetica
- Demonstration: Meralgia paresthetica
- Dissection: Lower extremity nerve decompression surgery at 5 locations
- Dissection: Surgical treatment of meralgia paresthetica
10:10
Coffee/tea break
10:30
Motor transfers
- Presentation: Surgical treatment of drop foot: Ninkovic procedure and nerve transfer for tibial to peroneal nerve
- Demonstration: Neuromusculotendineous transfer of the gastrocnemius muscle with nerve transfer
- Dissection: Neuromusculotendineous transfer of gastrocnemius muscle
12:15
Lunch break
13:15
Nerve reconstruction
- Demonstration: Reconstruction sural nerve after biopsy
- Demonstration: Reconstruction (partial) nerve injury with graft
- Demonstration: Reconstruction tibial nerve: sural to tibial nerve
- Dissection: Reconstruction sural nerve after biopsy
- Dissection: Reconstruction (partial) nerve injury with graft
- Dissection: Harvest sural nerve (endoscopic)
15:00
Coffee/tea break
15:20
Nerve injury and neuromas
- Presentation: Surgical options for sural and saphenous neuralgia
- Demonstration: TMR/RPNI for saphenous nerve
- Dissection: TMR and RPNI for saphenous and sural nerve
- Dissection: free choice
