Physiotherapy Session

Time

Activity / Session

Speaker

Moderators: Arun Christopher, Sharon Mendez

9am - 9.45am

Pre-operative Assessment and Management

• The Role of the Physiotherapist in Preventing or Delaying Joint Arthroplasty
• Pre-operative Assessment of Physical Impairments and Functional Limitations. Identifying Patients at Risk of Poor Outcome
• Pre-operative Rehabilitation: how important is it?

Tania Pizzari

9.45am - 10am

Peri-operative Considerations on Outcome

Robotic Arm Assisted TKA vs Conventional TKA. Influential Differences in Early Functional Recovery and in Long Term Functional Outcome

Rashmi Kalayil

10am - 10.15am

Post-operative Mechanics

Biomechanical Change in Gait after THA/TKA. What does it Mean for Rehabilitation?

Emmanouil Stefanakis

10.15am - 10.30am

Coffee Break

Moderators: Mahmoud Abohamed, Nael Kamel Diaa Aldeen

10.30am - 11am

Early Post-operative Management

• Benefits of Starting Physiotherapy within 24 hours of TKA and How to Overcome Short Term Complications?·
• Role of Physiotherapy in Day Care Arthroplasty: HMC experience

Yadulla Sayed 

Chrystel Ghanem

11am - 12.00pm

Post-operative Management

• Current Evidence for the Effectiveness of Therapeutic Exercise on Functional Outcomes
• Clinical Reasoning of Rehabilitation Following Hip and Knee Arthroplasties
• The Challenges in Post-discharge Recovery Within the Elderly Population Following Fast Track Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. What is the Role of Physiotherapy?
• Management of Arthrofibrosis Following Primary TKA

Abdallah Itani

Emmanouil Stefanakis

Tania Pizzari

Sharon Mendez

12pm - 12.45pm

Opening Ceremony

12.45pm - 1.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm - 1.45pm

Return to Physical Activity and Work after THA/TKA

Abdallah Itani

1.45pm - 2pm

Questions and Answers

2pm - 3pm

Workshops

• Criteria-based Functional Rehabilitation for the Post-operative Knee Patient
• Understanding the deep hip muscles. Implications for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis.

Abdallah Itani & Emmanouil Stefanakis

Tania Pizzari

3pm - 3.15pm

Coffee Break

3.15pm - 4.15pm

Workshops

• Manual therapy approaches for movement restrictions, adhesions, myofascial pain and muscle imbalances in TKA. Early and late mobilization effects. 
• Understanding the deep hip muscles. Implications for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis.

Yadulla Sayed


Tania Pizzari

4.15pm - 4.30pm

Questions and Answers