ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book

Niek C. van Dijk, MD, PhD, is Professor of Orthopaedics and Head of the Orthopaedic Department of the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. Dr. van Dijk is a specialist in arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery of the knee, foot, and ankle and sports medicine, and his department has treated many professional athletes from all over the world. He undertook his professional training in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Academic Medical Center of the University Hospital of Amsterdam and in 1994 completed his PhD on diagnostic strategies in patients with severe ankle sprain. In 1998 he founded the Orthopaedic Research Center Amsterdam (ORCA), and he has been Director of the Center since then. He became a full professor in 2002. Dr. van Dijk is a past President of the Dutch Orthopaedic Society, the Dutch Arthroscopic Society, and the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation. He is currently a board member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopaaedic Sports Medicine and President of the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery, and Arthroscopy. Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for chronic ankle injuries have been a prominent focus of his research. Dr. van Dijk has published more than 250 scientific articles in indexed publications and on average presents 25 international invited lectures each year.

Tips and tricks in arthroscopic surgery.- Management and consequences of the rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy.- Biceps pathology, evaluation and treatment option.- Unicompartmental knee prostheses: basic technique.- Posterior ankle arthroscopy: what are the limits?- Basic concept in PCL evaluation.- Revision ACL.- Massive rotator cuff tears and cuff arthropathy.- Multiple ligament injury management.- Patient matched cutting blocks, navigation and 3-D rotation.- Study design and research methodology.- The role of wrist arthroscopy in traumatic and post-traumatic injuries.- Lateral compartment injury of the knee.- Conservative treatment of chronic shoulder pain in overhead athletes.- Algorithms and flow-charts for the treatment of cartilage pathology.- Total knee arthoplasty: BASICS gap balancing, various approaches: femur first, tibia first, rotation, varus knee, valgus knee, getting the patellofemoral joint right.- Elbow arthroscopy.- Navigation in orthopaedic sports medicine.