Ingo Pfefferkorn

What's new in the compendium – and how can you use the content in your daily work? This workshop presents the updated chapters on socket systems, burn treatment, and TOPS treatment in a practical manner. Based on user examples from clinics and prosthetics and orthotics practice, you will gain valuable insights into structured decision-making, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the safe implementation of current treatment approaches – directly transferable to your everyday practice. A must for every prosthetist and orthotist and all professionals involved in the relevant fields.

You will gain insight into current developments in individualised prosthetic treatment: How do design, material and user training interact when it comes to user-specific socket concepts for transfemoral amputations (“situational sockets”), thermoplastic liners as the key to precise residual limb treatment, and comparative results of active and passive microprocessor-controlled knee prostheses? In addition, you will learn about the significance of individual prosthetic-use training for functional and psychosocial rehabilitation, particularly in cases of arm amputation.

Modern technologies and medical aids enable even people with severe physical disabilities to achieve greater mobility, as well as improved quality of life and participation. Based on studies and treatment examples, you will learn how new materials and manufacturing methods can make complex trunk orthoses and seating orthoses, for example, more precise, lighter and more functional.

Effective spinal treatment depends on individual adaptation, the targeted use of modern materials and a sound understanding of biomechanical relationships. You will learn about the importance of the interaction between technology, function and patient needs, so that your treatment corrects, relieves, stabilises and mobilises in the long term.

You will be introduced to innovative materials for sustainable production processes that are opening up new pathways in additive manufacturing for prosthetics and orthotics, orthopaedic footwear technology and rehabilitation technology. You will learn how they can be used to create lighter, longer-lasting and more resource-efficient devices – without compromising on functionality or patient comfort.