24. – 27.6.2016 Bingen&Waldalgesheim, Germany
in cooperation with Tierklinik Binger Wald
This course is meant to improve musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging skills on horses and to provide insight on managing the training, therapy and rehabilitation of them through ultrasound imaging. In the beginning of the course it will be taught how to best find the key structures for orthopaedic conditions and to assess their health status. Thereafter it will be taught how to evaluate the health and the stage of healing of structures to decide on the level of motion and load that a tissue can withstand without injury and reinjury throughout a rehabilitation and training period. Participants will be asked after registration to indicate which regions / structures should be addressed with priority!
Program:
Friday (June 24) Theory
(Accredited by ATF with 7 hours for Continuous Education)
- 9:00 – Welcome
- 9:15 – Scanning the neck, back and pelvis. Peter van Oijen
- 10:30 – Coffee break
- 11:00 – Scanning of the palmar/plantar pastern and metacarpus/metatarsus; scanning of joints – fetlock, carpus, elbow, shoulder, hock and stifle (to be selected by the participants). Andy Bathe
- 12:45 – Lunch
- 14:00 – The value of flexed limb and off-angle scanning. Filip Vandenberghe
- 15:45 – Coffee break
- 16:15 – Monitoring tendon and ligament disease using sequential ultrasound imaging. Carol Gillis
- 18:00 – End
- 18:30 – Dinner together with action!
Saturday (June 25) Practice
(Accredited by ATF with 7 hours for Continuous Education)
- 9:00 – Start of courses: 1) Neck, back and pelvis; 2) Regions of the fore-limbs; 3) Regions of the hindlimbs; 4) Flexed limb and off-angle scanning.
You will work in small groups (8 persons maximum/group). The day will be divided into four sessions of 90 minutes each. The courses will start with a demonstration by the instructors and thereafter each participant will image guided by the instructor. Please bring along your own equipment! - 18:00 – End
Sunday (June 26) Theory and practice
(Accredited by ATF with 7 hours for Continuous Education)
- 9:00 – Scanning difficult structures. Andy Bathe, Carol Gillis, Peter van Oijen
- 10:45 – Coffee break
- 11:30 – Wetlabs: Scanning difficult structures according to the needs indicated by the participants
You will work in small groups (8 persons maximum). The wetlabs will start with a demonstration by the instructors and thereafter each participant will image guided by the instructors. Please bring along your own equipment! - 18:00 – End
- 18:30 – Dinner together with wine degustation!
Monday (June 27) Theory and practice
(Accredited by ATF with 7 hours for Continuous Education)
ARE THE STRUCTURES DEVELOPING WELL AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO RECOVER THEM BETTER?
Using ultrasound to evaluate the stage of healing, level of motion and load that a tissue can withstand without reinjury throughout the rehabilitation period
- 08:30 – What to look at suspensory ligament, superficial digital flexor tendon and other structures? Hans van Schie
- 10:30 – Coffee break
- 11:00 – Wetlabs: Scanning difficult structures according to the needs indicated by the participants
You will work in small groups (8 persons maximum). The wetlabs will start with a demonstration by the instructors and thereafter each participant will image guided by the instructor! Please bring along your own equipment! - 17:30 – End