Profos 14th of June 2025

ProFoS 2025

PROcedure FOcused Symposium

- Update in Total Knee Arthroplasty -

8.00 - 8.30 Registration and coffee

Session 1
Chairs: M. Van de Velde and M. Carella

8.30 - 8.50 Anatomy of Pain after TKA
Matthias Herteleer

8.50 - 9.10 PBM and TKA: new horizons for better outcomes
• Raf Van den Eynde - From Theory to Practice
• Thomas Boogmans - Chal lenges to Implementation

9.20 - 9.40 Make your choice:
Proximal/dis tal blocks for whom, how, and when?
Steve Coppens

9.40 - 10.00 Frontiers in TKA:
PROMs, PREMs, and functional outcomes
Joana Berger Estilita

10.00 - 10.15 Question time

10.15 - 11.00 Coffee break

Session 2
Chairs: PY. Dewandre and L. Sermeus

11.00 - 11.20 Continuous or single shot PNBs
Matthias Desmet

11.20 - 11.40 Chronic pain before and af ter TKA
Vincent Bonhomme

11.50 - 12.10 Nerve injury in TKA: Who, how, and what to do?
Matthias Lapere

12.10 - 12.30 The posterior pain: limitations and perspectives
Sari Casaer

12.30 - 12.45 Question time

13.00 Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 Workshops
Station 1 for Fascia Iliaca and femoral nerve blocks – Matthias Lapere
Station 2 for Distal femoral triangle and ACB – Matthias Herteleer
Station 3 for QLB and lumbar plexus blocks – Steve Coppens
Station 4 for Proximal and Distal Sciatic nerve blocks – David Van Aken