COURSE DESCRIPTION

This cutting-edge workshop is a comprehensive hands-on interventional regenerative medicine extremities workshop to complement your clinical and surgical treatments. The workshop will provide basic to advanced instruction about all types of regenerative medicine, injections and injection techniques.  Included will be uses of various guidance such as palpation, ultrasound, and fluoroscopy, and about how treatments such as PRP, stem cells, and other orthobiologics all work for the peripheral extremities, giving you the tools and skills to achieve successful patient outcomes, and teaching you how to incorporate it into your practice.

  • Understand Physical Examinations and determining a diagnosis for upper and lower extremities.

  • Determine appropriate injection techniques using ultrasound guidance for upper & lower extremities.

  • Determine appropriate injection techniques using fluoroscopy for upper & lower extremities.

  • Understand the current Regulations and FDA Guidance's regarding Regenerative Medicine.

  • Understand various injectable protocols that will help you in patient treatment.

  • Assess how the different injectates are used and which are most effective for the various extremity diagnosis.

TARGET AREAS COVERED

Shoulder Injections

  • Joint

  • Rotator Cuff

  • AC Jt/Ligaments

  • Biceps Tendon

Elbow Injections

  • Joint

  • Flexor/Extensor Tendons

  • Radial Collateral Ligament

  • Ulnar Collateral Ligament

Wrist Injections

  • Radial Collateral Ligament

  • Ulnar Collateral Ligament

  • Scapholunate Joint/Ligament

  • 1st CMC Joint/Ligament

Hip Injections

  • Joint

  • Gluteal Tendons

  • Joint Capsular Ligaments

Knee Injections

  • Joint

  • MCL/LCL

  • Coronary Ligaments

  • Patellar Tendon

  • Pes Anserine

Ankle Injections

  • Joint

  • Interosseous Ligament

  • ATF Ligament

  • CFL Ligament

  • Tibial Fibular Ligament

  • Sinus Tarsus

Foot Injections

  • Achilles Tendon

  • Plantar Fascia

  • 1st TMT Joint/Capsule

SCHEDULE

Saturday, August 10
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM Welcome and Team Deployment
8:05 AM - 9:30 AM Didactic and Hands-on Table Instruction for:  
  Station 1: Ultrasound with Mid-Humerus to Fingers
  Station 2: Ultrasound with Hip/Pelvis
  Station 3: Ultrasound with Shoulder
  Station 4: Ultrasound with Mid-Thigh to Toes
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Break  
9:45 AM - 12:00 PM Teams Rotate Stations
  
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch and Product Theater
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Teams Rotate Stations  
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Break  
3:15 PM - 5:30 PM Teams Rotate Stations  
6:30 PM Dinner  
     

Sunday, August 11
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast & Q&A
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM Welcome and Team Deployment
8:05 AM - 9:30 AM Review and Hands-on Table Instruction for:  
  Station 1: Ultrasound with Mid-Humerus to Fingers
  Station 2: Ultrasound with Hip/Pelvis
  Station 3: Ultrasound with Shoulder
  Station 4: Ultrasound with Mid-thigh to Toes
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Break  
9:45 AM - 12:00 PM Teams Rotate Stations (add C-Arm for those interested)  
12:00 PM Close  

TARGET AUDIENCE

Physicians with prior exposure to musculoskeletal ultrasound who want or need hands-on training experience in performing US-guided injections. This is ideal for physicians who want to add this skill set into their practice, expand their repertoire of procedures they can offer, or hammer down the basics of performing US-guided injections.

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS

Registration is open to physicians who are board-certified or in the examination process for certification in: Anesthesiology, Interventional Pain, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Radiology, Neurology, Orthopedics, or Family Practice / Sports Medicine.  Registrants who are not board-certified or eligible for certification in these specialties must have either completed or be currently enrolled in a pain fellowship accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), or be a residency trained MD or DO approved by the educational committee of the AAOM to enroll in this course.

CME

CME information to come.

HOTEL

Lodging information to come.

TRAINING FACILITY

Special thanks to AAOM board member Steve Karageanes and his partner for making available their clinic space for this workshop. The clinic address is: 42350 Grand River Ave, Novi, MI 48375.

AIR TRANSIT INFORMATION

Your destination airport is Detroit International Airport. When making flight arrangements, please allow for your complete participation in the workshop program by arriving on Friday and departing late on Sunday afternoon or in to the evening. 

INCLUDED IN YOUR REGISTRATION FEE:

  • Transportation to/from hotel to the workshop facility

  • Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday

  • Lunch on Saturday

  • Reception on Saturday

  • Complimentary snacks and beverages during your workshop days

  • All PPE, scrubs, lead and thyroid shields

The workshop is limited to 20 attendees to maintain an optimal instructor to student ratio. Complete your registration before space is gone.

FACULTY

Taught by faculty at the forefront of interventional procedures and research, this Workshop offers attendees the opportunity to learn about the latest advancements related to the treatment of extremities from leaders within their respective field. 

  • Steve Karageanes, DO

    Program Co-Chair

  • Jonathan Fenton, DO

    Program Co-Chair

  • Mike Carlson, DO

  • Paul Johnson, DO