2025 ANZLRS ASM

Back to Basics, Fast forward to the future

You are invited to join us in Melbourne for the Inaugural ANZLRS ASM. Be part of history as we regroup, share knowledge, and shape the future of limb reconstruction in Australia and New Zealand.

This landmark event will feature:

• Case discussions and “How I do things” presentations
• An ethics symposium exploring key topics
• Insights into the latest advances in limb reconstruction

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The provisional program has been confirmed with 2 focal scientific sessions: one acting as a forum for case planning and deformity analysis in this contemporary era, and the second relating to all things bone defects: from fragmental to segmental. Each session will include a review of contemporary literature, expert opinion, and cases for discussion.

These sessions will be complemented by an ethics forum, as well as speakers talking on novel advances in the limb reconstruction arena. The day will conclude with a difficult cases roundtable and attendees will be invited to submit cases for presentation. In this new era of ANZLRS, we are also fortunate to have engaged several major sponsors, four of which will be briefly presenting as part of the meeting.

Please also pass on this link to your registrars and fellows with a limb reconstruction interest.

We look forward to gathering once more as a society, and aligning our goals in this most novel of orthopaedic fields.

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ASM Recap

The inaugural meeting of ANZLRS, the relaunched Society For Limb Reconstruction in Australia and New Zealand. took place on 22nd March 2025 in Melbourne. The packed program covered deformity planning, the difference between torsion and rotation, the utility and implementation process around new technologies such as 3D printing, osseointegration, extramedullary use of motorised lengthening nails, and the complex interrelationship between external tibial torsion and hindfoot varus. Sessions included talks from our allied health membership, touching on the complex nurse and physiotherapy considerations in managing patients with complex reconstructive problems.

An ethics forum was spearheaded by Drs Kevin Tetsworth and Leo Donnan, as well as a case discussion section chaired by Dr Chris Harris and Noelle Coleman, were discussion provoking highlights of the day.

We are especially grateful to the major and minor sponsors of the conference, particularly those whom elected to use their stage podium allocations to further showcase work being done by specific surgeons both nationally and internationally.

We look forward to a meeting in Brisbane next year with a provisional date of 28th March. This will take a similar format, but perhaps an increase in the case discussion section due to its popularity, as well as picking one or more specific themes around which to focus the meeting. We will advise the membership of details as they arise!

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