Scientific Program: Conference - Day 1 - Saturday, 5th January, 2013

Time Topic Faculty
8.00 Breakfast session:  Hand fractures in children Peter Waters
  Session 1: Pediatric upper limb problems  
9.00 Managing gap nonunions in upper limb Vrisha Madhuri
9.15 Answers to stiff elbow Peter Waters
9.30 Radioulnar synostosis Eva Ponten
  Session 2: POSI oration  
9.50 My journey Alvin Crawford
10.30 Coffee break  
  Session 3: Cerebral palsy  
10.50 Managing adolescent crouch James Robb
11.05 Spastic foot management Fergal Monsell
11.20 Current status of rectus transfer James Robb
11.40 Session 4: POSI Best paper session  
  Comparing Dobb's brace with foot abduction brace for clubfoot Sanjay Chilbule
  The sphericity deviation score for Perthes' disease Siddesh N. D.
  Remodeling of pelvic support osteotomy in children Sanjay Arora
  Pixel value ratio to assess ceramic bone substitute incorporation Balakumar B.
  Ultrasound guided reduction of  both bone forearm fracture Sanjay Meena
  Handedness in diplegic cerebral palsy Nikhil S Challawar
  Evaluation of utility of a dedicated clubfoot program Mandar V. Agashe
  A single stage rotational osteotomy for radioulnar synostosis Viraj Shingade
  Results of growth modulation for angular deformities Chasanal Rathod
  Primary subacute epiphyseal osteomyelitis in children Maulin Shah
1.10 Lunch  
2.00 Session 5: Interactive session: clinical cases Taral Nagda
3.00 Session 6: Free papers  
  Characteristics of human growth plate chondrocytes Balakumar B.
  Innovative flexible nail for fractures of femur in children Thakkar Navin
  Glenoid dysplasia secondary to obstetric brachial plexus palsy Philip Henman
  Single staged correction for clubfoot in myelomeningocele Viraj Shingade
  Management of unicameral bone cysts by intramedullary flexible nails Girish Bbhalerao
  Direct vertebral rotation in idiopathic thoraco-lumbar scoliosis Rajiv Goyal
  Luque unit rod instrumentation in neuromuscular scoliosis Subir Jhaveri
  Fibrodyplasia ossificans progressiva: diagnosis and pamidronate therapy Sanjay Chilbule
4.00 Session 7: How I do it differently?  
  Fixator assisted deformity correction Dhiren Ganjwala
  4 part osteotomy for Blount's disease Fergal Monsell
  Locking plate as external fixator Rajiv Negandhi
  Perthe's disease - adductor release, growth modulation and cast Peter Stevens
  Intrafocal pinning for neck radius Sandeep Patwardhan
  Spica cast application without spica table Sanjeev Meena
  Artery forcep assisted Achilles tenotomy for clubfeet Amit Nemade
  Gigli wire to decompress the medullary canal Maulin Shah
  External oblique tendon transfer Praveen Jose
  Orthofix assisted deformity correction using locked plate Noel Naleen Kumar
  Computerised hexapod assisted orthopaedic surgery Fergal Monsell
5.00 Session 8: Motivational discourse  
  Spirituality in Medicine Sadhu Vivekjivan Das
5.30 Session 9: Your attention please !!!!  
  Quiz related to scientific program of day 1 of POSICON

Alaric Aroojis, Vijay Sriram,  Hitesh Shah