11–13 November 2027

Scientific Programme

Two full days and a half day. 53 provocative lectures, 18 instructive case discussions, 8 fireside debates and 4 concurrent sessions — every slot already scheduled.

Provocative Lectures · 7 min Instructive Case Discussions · 10 min Fireside Debates · 15 min Concurrent Sessions Special Session Breaks
08:00–08:1010 min

Opening Remarks

Opening

Welcome, educational philosophy, faculty introduction, and how to use the case-based format.

08:10–09:0050 min

Basics of Pediatric Orthopedics I

5 Lectures

5 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. The Child Is Not a Small Adult: What Growth Changes in Every Decision
  2. Physis, Periosteum, and Cartilage: The Pediatric Surgeon’s Biological Advantage
  3. Remodeling: Miracle, Myth, or Measurable Phenomenon?
  4. Pediatric Bone Healing: When “Benign” Biology Becomes a Trap
  5. Biomechanics for Daily Practice: Levers, Loads, and Limping Children

Faculty: to be announced

09:00–10:0060 min

Basics of Pediatric Orthopedics II

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. Outcome Scores in Children: Are We Measuring What Matters?
  2. Communicating Uncertainty: Talking to Families Without Losing Trust
  3. Indications, Timing, and Thresholds: The Art Behind the Algorithm
  4. Ethics in Pediatric Orthopedics: Consent, Assent, and Shared Responsibility
  5. Complications as Teachers: How to Build a Safer Practice
  6. Life, Work, and Professionalism: Becoming a Sustainable Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon

Faculty: to be announced

10:00–10:3030 min

Coffee Break

10:30–11:3060 min

Neuromuscular Disorders

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. GMFCS Is Not Just a Label: How Function Should Drive Treatment
  2. Hip Surveillance in Cerebral Palsy: Preventing the Operation Before It Is Needed
  3. Spasticity Management: Botox, Casting, SDR, or Surgery — What Really Changes the Child?
  4. Single-Event Multilevel Surgery: Elegant Concept or Overloaded Prescription?
  5. Neuromuscular Spine: When Pelvic Obliquity Becomes a Whole-Body Problem
  6. The Non-Ambulatory Child: Comfort, Sitting, Hygiene, and Family Goals

Faculty: to be announced

11:30–12:0030 min

Neuromuscular Disorders — Cases

3 Cases

3 instructive case discussions, 10 min each

  1. The disappearing window: progressive CP hip migration despite “acceptable” surveillance
  2. Crouch gait after previous surgery: revision strategy or rehabilitation failure?
  3. Severe neuromuscular scoliosis with pelvic obliquity: timing, goals, and risk discussion
12:00–13:0060 min

Lunch

13:00–14:0060 min

Concurrent Sessions #1

Concurrent

Meet-the-Expert: Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls  or  Hands-on Workshop
Participant cases: 6 rapid-fire cases selected from submissions

Case submissions open — see Submit a Case

14:00–15:0060 min

Controversies in Pediatric Orthopedics I

4 Debates

4 fireside debates — 2 min framing, 4 min pro, 4 min con, 3 min crossfire, 2 min audience poll

  1. Guided growth is oversold: should we correct less and observe more?
  2. DDH after walking age: open reduction is too aggressive — or too late?
  3. CP hip displacement: preventive surgery or radiographic over-treatment?
  4. Limb reconstruction in complex children: heroic surgery or burden of care?
15:00–15:3030 min

Coffee Break

15:30–16:3060 min

Deformity Correction

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. Coronal Plane Is the Easy Part: Why Rotation and Sagittal Profile Decide Outcomes
  2. Hemiepiphysiodesis: Small Plates, Big Expectations, and Hidden Failures
  3. Osteotomy Planning: CORA Is Necessary but Not Sufficient
  4. External Fixators vs Internal Devices: Choosing the Right Burden
  5. Recurrent Deformity: Biology, Mechanics, or Poor Planning?
  6. Complications in Deformity Correction: Nerve, Infection, Nonunion, and Regret

Faculty: to be announced

16:30–17:0030 min

Deformity Correction — Cases

3 Cases

3 instructive case discussions, 10 min each

  1. Rebound valgus after guided growth: prevent, predict, or accept?
  2. Multiplanar tibial deformity: when simple correction becomes dangerous
  3. Failed lengthening with regenerate problems: rescue strategy and patient counseling
08:00–09:0060 min

Pediatric Hip Disorders

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. DDH Screening: Are We Finding the Right Hips — or Creating Anxiety?
  2. Closed Reduction: Gentle Treatment or Delayed Failure?
  3. Pelvic Osteotomies: Dega, Pemberton, Salter, Triple — Which Problem Are We Solving?
  4. AVN After DDH Treatment: Bad Luck, Bad Hip, or Bad Technique?
  5. Perthes Disease: Containment Still Matters — but for Whom?
  6. SCFE: The Hip That Punishes Delay

Faculty: to be announced

09:00–09:3030 min

Hip Disorders — Cases

3 Cases

3 instructive case discussions, 10 min each

  1. Residual acetabular dysplasia after successful reduction: observe, osteotomize, or wait?
  2. Redislocation after DDH treatment: sequence of failure analysis
  3. Unstable SCFE: reduction, pinning, osteoplasty, and AVN risk
09:30–10:3060 min

Concurrent Sessions #2

Concurrent

Meet-the-Expert: Tumor, Infection, and Metabolic Bone Disease  or  Hands-on Workshop

10:30–11:0030 min

Coffee Break

11:00–12:0060 min

Pediatric Trauma

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. The Pediatric Fracture That Looks Harmless but Isn’t
  2. Remodeling Rules: When Angulation Is Acceptable — and When It Is a Mistake
  3. Supracondylar Humerus Fractures: The 30 Minutes That Matter Most
  4. Forearm Fractures: Casting, Nailing, Plating, and the Price of Rotation
  5. Physeal Injuries: Predicting Growth Arrest Before It Happens
  6. Polytrauma in Children: Damage Control or Definitive Fixation?

Faculty: to be announced

12:00–12:3030 min

Pediatric Trauma — Cases

3 Cases

3 instructive case discussions, 10 min each

  1. Pulseless pink hand after supracondylar fracture: observe or explore?
  2. Distal tibial physeal injury: growth arrest surveillance and correction plan
  3. Refracture after forearm plating or nailing: technical and biological lessons
12:30–13:3060 min

Lunch

13:30–14:3060 min

Concurrent Sessions #3

Concurrent

Meet-the-Expert: Pediatric Hip  or  Hands-on Workshop

14:30–15:3060 min

Controversies in Pediatric Orthopedics II

4 Debates

4 fireside debates — 2 min framing, 4 min pro, 4 min con, 3 min crossfire, 2 min audience poll

  1. Early-onset scoliosis: growth-friendly surgery saves lungs — or creates lifelong morbidity?
  2. Pediatric ACL injuries: early reconstruction protects the knee — or risks the physis?
  3. Unstable SCFE: should we anatomically reduce or respect the deformity?
  4. Pediatric trauma fixation: are we operating too much, or still not enough?
15:30–16:0030 min

Coffee Break

16:00–17:0060 min

Giants of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Special Session

Pediatric orthopedics as a career and lifestyle: advice from the end of an impressive career to young pediatric orthopaedists at the beginning of their journey.

Freeman Miller & Benjamin Joseph

07:45–08:4560 min

Pediatric Foot & Ankle

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. The Pediatric Flatfoot: Physiological Variation or Surgical Temptation?
  2. Clubfoot Relapse: When Ponseti Success Becomes a Long-Term Challenge
  3. Vertical Talus and Skewfoot: The Feet That Refuse Simple Labels
  4. Neuromuscular Foot Deformity: Brace, Tendon Transfer, Osteotomy, or Fusion?
  5. Tarsal Coalition: Pain Generator or Incidental Finding?
  6. Toe Walking: Habit, Neurology, Contracture, or Missed Diagnosis?

Faculty: to be announced

08:45–09:1530 min

Pediatric Foot & Ankle — Cases

3 Cases

3 instructive case discussions, 10 min each

  1. Relapsed clubfoot in an older child: repeat casting, transfer, or osteotomy?
  2. Painful rigid flatfoot: coalition work-up and treatment strategy
  3. Neuromuscular equinovarus: balancing function, braceability, and recurrence
09:15–10:1560 min

Concurrent Sessions #4

Concurrent

Meet-the-Expert: Neuromuscular Orthopaedics  or  Hands-on Workshop

10:15–10:4530 min

Coffee Break

10:45–11:4560 min

Tumors and Metabolic Bone Disorders

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. The Limping Child with a Lesion: When Not to Biopsy First
  2. Benign Bone Tumors: Curettage, Observe, or Stop Imaging?
  3. Bone Infection vs Tumor: The Diagnostic Gray Zone
  4. Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Rods, Bisphosphonates, and Realistic Goals
  5. Rickets and Metabolic Deformity: Correct the Bone or Correct the Biology?
  6. Pathological Fractures: Fixation Principles in Abnormal Bone

Faculty: to be announced

11:45–12:1530 min

Tumors and Metabolic Bone Disorders — Cases

3 Cases

3 instructive case discussions, 10 min each

  1. Aggressive-looking benign lesion: how to avoid overtreatment
  2. Recurrent deformity in rickets: metabolic control before mechanical correction
  3. Pathological femur fracture in a child: stabilization and diagnostic sequence
12:15–13:1560 min

Pediatric Spine

6 Lectures

6 provocative 7-minute lectures

  1. Early-Onset Scoliosis: The No-Man’s-Land of Pediatric Spine Surgery
  2. AIS Surgery in the Skeletally Immature Patient: Wait, Fuse, or Tether?
  3. Neuromonitoring Alerts: When to Stop, Stage, or Continue
  4. Neuromuscular Scoliosis: Pelvic Fixation for Everyone — or Selectively?
  5. Scoliosis in Syndromic Children: Why Diagnosis Matters More Than Cobb Angle
  6. Congenital Scoliosis: When Is Early Surgery Truly Necessary?

Faculty: to be announced

13:15–13:3015 min

Closing Remarks

Closing

Course summary, take-home messages, participant feedback, and invitation to the next ISCO meeting.

Faculty allocation per session is being finalised. The programme structure and timings above are confirmed; speaker names will be published as they are confirmed.

Present your own case

Six rapid-fire participant cases are selected from submissions for the concurrent sessions.

Submit a Case