Friday 30-01-2026: Massive cuff tears
(Preliminary and subject to small changes)
8:30 Registration
9:00 What is reparable/ What is irreparable? - Pol Huysmans
9:10 Basics of tendon transfers - Jean-David Werthel
9:20 How to measure force around the shoulder? - Dominiek Vandenbosch
9:30 Pectoralis transfer for irreparable subscapularis tear - Matthijs Jacxsens
9:45 Latissimus Dorsi transfer for irreparable subscapularis tear - Jean Kany
10:00 Registries - Eva De Vries
10:10 Multicentric studies template SECEC - Anne Karelse
10:30 Break
11:00 Practical sessions:
Surgeons: cadaver training - Pectoralis Major and/or Latissimus Dorsi
transfer for Subscapularis tears
Physiotherapists: Observership during cadavercourse or workshop
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Latissimus Dorsi transfer for posterosuperior cuff tear - Filip Verhaegen
13:45 Lower Trapezius transfer for posterosuperior cuff tear - Bassem Elhassan
14:00 Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis + Latissimus Dorsi - Bart Berghs
14:15 Rehab after cuff repair - Dorien Borms
14:45 Surgical treatment after Parsonage Turner - Wim Vanhove
15:15 The green shoulder circle - Vincent Martinel
14:45 Break
15:15 Practical sessions
Surgeons: cadaver training - Reversed shoulder arthroplasty + l'episcopo -
open plexus exploration
Physiotherapists: Observership during cadavercourse or workshop
17:45 End of day
Saturday 31-01-2026: Scapular disorders
(Preliminary and subject to small changes)
8:30 Registration
9:00 Normal thoracoscapular mobility - Alexander Van Tongel
9:10 Thoracoscapular motion and subacromial complaints - Annelies Maenhout
9:25 Scapular position and relevance in RSA - Paul Siegert
9:40 Scapular movement after RSA - Dominiek Vandenbosch
9:55 Scapular movement after anatomic shoulder arthroplasty - Tjarco Alta
10:10 Informing ourselves to death. How to deal with the infodemic? - Ignaas Devish
10:30 Break
11:00 STAM: clinical examination with patients - Bassem Elhassan
11:30 Tendon transfer for STAM - Jean-David Werthel
11:45 Thoracoscapulair fusion for FSHD - Ofer Levy
12:00 Pectorialis Major transfer for Deltoid palsy - Bassem Elhassan
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Cadaver session for surgeons (Physiotherapists optional observership)
- Arthroscopy of Latissumus dorsi and Lower trapezius
- Live cadaver surgery
16:45 End of day