Success of our orthopedists at the international congress

A team from the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation MUW took third place in the Best National Poster Session, held at the EFORT Congress in Lisbon. The award-winning paper is on knee joint endoprosthesis.

The main topic of the presented study "Establishing Femoral Component Rotation Using Dynamic Tensioner Improves Patellar Position After Total Knee Replacement With Use Of Anatomic Implants - Randomized-Controlled Trial" is a prospective analysis comparing patellar positioning in patients after endoprosthesis using two techniques used during surgery in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation - the gap-balancing technique using a dynamic balancer and a technique that evaluates rotation based on static bone points. An evaluation of the CT scan results and clinical outcome in the patients enrolled in the study determined that the use of a dynamic balancer allows more accurate restoration of the patella position after surgery and improves the results of this procedure. The work was written under the leadership of Bartosz Maciąg  MA, and Artur Stolarczyk, MA, PhD, - head of the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation MUW. It is worth mentioning that Artur Stolarczyk, MA, PhD, and Bartosz Maciąg, MA, are instructors of both techniques and train orthopedists from all over Eastern Europe.

The EFORT Congress is the largest and most important congress on orthopedics and traumatology in Europe. This year the symposium was held under the theme of the needs of today's patients - challenges and solutions in orthopedics and traumatology.