OTWorld 2024: For Professionals in Orthopaedic Treatment and Care
Practical, international and interdisciplinary: From 14 to 17 May, the world congress at OTWorld will be setting the scene for global knowledge transfer in the prosthetics and orthotics industry. The congress programme will offer a wide range of further education opportunities for all professional groups working at the interface between people and technology.
The positioning of the world congress as an interdisciplinary event is strongly supported by its congress presidents, Prof Dr Wirth and Master Orthopaedic Technician Ingo Pfefferkorn (Dipl.-Ing. FH). "The congress programme at OTWorld 2024 offers CPD opportunities tailored to every group of professionals involved in treatment and care from orthopaedic (footwear) technicians, physiotherapists and physicians to medical supply store staff," Pfefferkorn explains. "Recent additions to the world congress programme include a wide range of highly practical workshops looking at everyday professional tasks and providing hands-on experience. Anyone attending the event is guaranteed to return home with brand-new insights that they can put to work for their patients."
In different formats, the world congress will take a look at all the key issues in orthopaedic treatment and care from prosthetics, orthotics, orthopaedic footwear technology, sports orthopaedics and parasports to age-appropriate assistance systems, digitalisation and lymphology.
In multiple sessions, orthopaedic footwear technicians can take part in professional development specially tailored to their day-to-day work. These contributions are made possible in part by collaboration with the Society for Foot and Ankle Surgery e.V. (GFFC), the German Association for Feet and Ankles e.V. (DAF), the Society for Orthopaedic Footwear Technology (Studiengemeinschaft OST e.V.) and the Orthopaedic Footwear Technology Competence Center (KomZet OST).
At the symposium led by Dr Hartmut Sinus entitled "Orthopaedic and Footwear Technologies for Severe Foot Deformities in Children and Adolescents", for example, orthopaedic footwear technicians can expect to take away valuable ideas for the treatment and care of affected patients.
France is presenting itself for the first time as OTWorld's partner country with a large pavilion and contributions to the Congress. French companies and experts working in prosthetics, orthotics and compression supply as well as rehabilitation and orthopaedic footwear technologies will be travelling to Leipzig. At the coming edition of this industry get-together, France's contribution as a country is expected to feature insights into the French health system and its innovations. The Olympic and Paralympic Games, which take place in France next summer, will be particularly in focus at OTWorld 2024.
The full congress programme is available online on the OTWorld website.
