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Editorial

Our Face and Tongue
     

Worldwide News

COVID-19: What is going on in Italy now? Orthopaedic surgeon perspective

COVID-19: What is going on in Spain now? What should we do as orthopaedic surgeons
to be ready for the “COVID Tsunami”?
     

News From the Head Office

New Appointments
    

SICOT Committee News

Fellowship Committee - New Look and Reorganization

SICOT Young Surgeons Committee News
     

SICOT History

The Known History of the Origins of SICOT
   

SICOT by Region

Go South

The SICOT Lebanese chapter: a new era
    

Expert Corner

Article from the SICOT Knee Arthroplasty Subspecialty Committee - Level of Constraint
in Primary Knee Arthroplasty

   

SICOT Education

Exam Corner - Paediatrics

SICOT meets SICOT Fellowship Report
   

SICOT Publications

SICOT-J: How the idea was created
   

SICOT Events

SICOT Young Surgeons’ Meeting Report, 28 February 2020
   
    

SICOT & Its Partners

The Hip Society

OrthoEvidence COVID Resource Centre

World Orthopaedic Concern Newsletter
  

SICOT Congress
 

Call for Articles 

          

 
 
Editorial

   
Our Face and Tongue

by Ahmed H. Abdelazeem

Despite the advances in social networking, the societies' newsletters, either electronic or hard copy formats, remain the cornerstone of communication and exposure. The SICOT Newsletter has gone through a lot of changes since its development. As the new Editorial Secretary responsible for the ‘Face and Tongue’ of our prestigious international organization, I have thought of many things to be done in stages, to maintain and improve this highly effective method of communication. Read more...

 

Worldwide News
 

COVID-19: What is going on in Italy now? Orthopaedic surgeon perspective
by Francesco Benazzo & Francesco Falez

The coronavirus outbreak is disrupting the routine and lives of orthopaedic surgeons in Italy, at a scaled progression across the country, and now throughout Europe, although on other parts of the continent at different speeds and levels of penetration. Read more...

 

COVID-19: What is going on in Spain now? What should we do as orthopaedic surgeons to be ready for the “COVID Tsunami”?
by Oliver Marin-Peña

I am an orthopaedic surgeon in Madrid and, for the first time in my life, I feel worried about a health problem. Read more...

 

News From the Head Office
 

New Appointments

SICOT welcomes three new members of its Board of Directors. We are pleased to announce that Mohit Bhandari from Canada is our new Research Academy Chair, Essam El Sherif from Egypt is the new Vice-President of Africa, Near & Middle East, and Ahmed Abdel-Azeem also from Egypt has been elected as the Editorial Secretary. Read more...

 

SICOT Committee News
 

SICOT Fellowship Committee: New Look and Reorganization
by Bassel El-Osta

To all SICOT members a great greeting from myself, Bassel El-Osta, the Chair of the Fellowship Committee for the next couple of years. As you are aware, SICOT is going through a change based on transparency with opportunities for every member to grow in this society. Obviously, the Fellowship Committee is part of that reform and a new methodology and approach have been applied. Read more...

 

SICOT Young Surgeons Committee News
by Karadi H. Sunil Kumar

The SICOT Young Surgeons Committee (YSC) is vibrant and comprises SICOT members in the early years of their careers. YSC has endeavoured to organise educational activities suited for young surgeons and trainees preparing for their exit exams.  Read more...

   

SICOT History
 

The Known History of the Origins of SICOT

The first reference relating to an international orthopaedic association, which eventually became SICOT, is found in a letter written by Robert William Lovett of Harvard University in Boston, United States. Lovett wrote on 25 November 1913 that he had found enthusiastic support among his American colleagues for the formation of an international society of orthopaedic surgery. His letter was sent simultaneously to Professors Hans Spitzy of Vienna and Vittorio Putti of Bologna. Read more...

 

SICOT by Region


Go South
by Essam Elsherif

Healthcare in Africa still lags behind other regions in the world. Jim K. 2014 stated that 30% of the global burden of diseases can be attributed to surgically treatable conditions. Africa bears one quarter of the disease burden, yet has only 2% of the world doctors. Read more...

 

The SICOT Lebanese chapter: a new era
by Bassel El-Osta

I am very happy to address today the issue of SICOT in Lebanon and its late development. As far as I am aware, SICOT Lebanon started many years ago and many National Delegates have taken up the role of managing this in that time. However, with such instability in the country between 2005 and 2009, it was very difficult to keep members, especially as it was not possible to arrange any activity at all. Therefore, the SICOT Lebanese chapter started to lose members to other organisations such as EFORT, AO, etc. Read more...

 

Expert Corner


Article from the SICOT Knee Arthroplasty Subspecialty Committee:
Level of Constraint in Primary Knee Arthroplasty

by Francesco Benazzo, L. Perticarini, S.M.P. Rossi

Constraint can be defined as “the state of being checked, restricted, or compelled to avoid or perform some action” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In the knee prosthetic world, means that the two components, femur and tibia, are linked together in different degrees according to the need of the knee itself, to provide the sufficient stability not given by ligaments, capsule, and extensor mechanism. The term constraint is improperly extended to unconstrained design, such as CR and PS, which dictates the way the new joint moves (kinematic), but they do not provide any additional stability, which is given by the capsule and by the level of conformity between femoral component and liner. Read more...   

 

SICOT Education


Exam Corner - Paediatrics
prepared by Mohamed Sukeik

1) Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding Myelodysplasia (Spina Bifida)? 

a) They can be diagnosed in utero with increased levels of α-fetoprotein

b) They may be related to a folate deficiency in utero

c) Type II Arnold-Chiari malformation is the most common comorbid condition

d) Sudden changes in function can be associated with tethered cord, hydrocephalus or syringomyelia

e) 20% of myelodysplastic patients have hydrocephalus

Read more...

            

SICOT meets SICOT Fellowship Report
by Rahman Rasool Akhtar

I am really privileged and honoured to have been awarded a "SICOT meets SICOT" Fellowship in 2019 at the Klinik für Unfall-, Hand- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Homburg, Germany, under the supervision of respected Prof Dr Tim Pohlemann for a period of 4 weeks (20/01/2020 to 16/02/2020). Read more...
            

 

  

SICOT Publications
 

SICOT-J: How the idea was created
by Hatem Said

In January 2015 SICOT-J started as an online open access journal for SICOT. The idea to create another Journal for SICOT besides International Orthopedics (IO) was suggested and thought of one year before. Read more...

 

SICOT Events
 

Report on the SICOT Young Surgeons’ Meeting, 28 February 2020
by Ahmed H. Abdelazeem

After the approval of the SICOT Executive Committee, it became a mission of the Young Surgeons Committee to arrange an annual international meeting for the trainees and young surgeons to run in parallel with the annual congress. Read more...

 

SICOT & Its Partners
 

The Hip Society

The Hip Society was established in 1968 by Frank Stinchfield, MD, as a by-invitation only academic society together with 20 elite hip surgeons. The mission of The Hip Society is to advance the knowledge and treatment of hip disorders to improve the lives of our patients. The vision of The Hip Society is to lead in the discovery and dissemination of knowledge related to disorders of the hip. Read more...

 

OrthoEvidence COVID Resource Centre

In support of our partnership with OrthoEvidence, we would like to share the launching of OrthoEvidence's COVID-19 Resource Centre. Read more...

 

World Orthopaedic Concern Newsletter

The World Orthopaedic Concern Newsletter has been renewed and revitalised by contributions from its members. This issue has articles describing ongoing WOC activities from Burma, Oman (WOC meeting during the SICOT Congress), USA, and India. Read more...

 

SICOT Congress

 

 

Call for Articles

   
The SICOT quarterly e-Newsletters are sent to more than 15,000 orthopaedic surgeons worldwide. The editorial team is inviting SICOT members to send their articles for publication and to be widely spread among this community. Social and scientific articles are both welcome. Our newsletter corners include: Worldwide News, Editorial, Committee News, Head Office Updates, Events and Meetings, Expert Corner, Publications News, SICOT History and Memories, and so on.  

Don’t hesitate to share your article. Please send it directly to [email protected].

Here are some regulations that will help you and us:

  1. "Copyright must be considered": Please take into consideration international copyright regulations (e.g. plagiarism, photos downloaded from the internet, and so on). For a better understanding, kindly read: 
    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/copyright.asp
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
  2. "A picture is worth a thousand words": Illustrated articles are highly recommended and appreciated (e.g. photos, drawings, graphs, and so on) - while taking copyright into consideration.
  3. Article in Microsoft Word document is recommended.
  4. Word count recommendations vary according to the type of article as well as the type of volume (e-newsletter versus hard copies). However, most often published articles are between 500 and 700 words.
  5. A nice photo of the writer(s) to be published beside their name and SICOT position is recommended (recent photo with a white background is preferred).
  6. All articles will be rechecked by an editor and the Editorial Secretary. Any major revisions or changes in the article will not be published unless the writer has approved it.

Waiting to hear from you soon!

Ahmed H. Abdelazeem

 

Editorial Department

Editorial Secretary: Ahmed Abdelazeem 
Editorial Production: Linda Ridefjord
Editorial Board: Sattar Alshryda, Aju Bosco, Temiloluwa Olufemi, Gandhi Solayar, Mohamed Sukeik, Markos Valsamis & Pavel Volotovski

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