The Spanish surgeon participated as guest speaker at the 18th Congress of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology

The Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center of the Austrian capital hosted last week, from Wednesday to Friday, the annual meeting of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology (EFORT). intra-articular radius fractures

This 18th edition featured the Spanish surgeon Francisco del Piñal among its guest speakers. Piñal participated in the symposium dedicated to the analysis and discussion of treatment options for intra-articular radius fractures.

Dr. Piñal addressed the arthroscopically assisted treatment in this profile of radius fractures in a session which also counted on Drs. Arora (Austria), Williksen (Norway) and Herzberg (France), with the secretary general of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Association (EWAS), Jan-Ragnar Haugsvedt, as moderator.

The meeting of EFORT, considered as one of the most important scientific and technical debate fora on traumatology in the world, had the practice of orthopedics in the context of sports activity as leitmotif, with central items such as the application of eHealth solutions in research, the shoulder and hip injuries or the treatment of chronic bone infections.

Main image: view of Vienna's financial district with the DC Tower, Austria's tallest skyscraper.
By Ralf Roletschek - Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link (original cropped).