09:00 – 09:15 Registration Housekeeping and registration

09:15 – 09:30 Presentation & Discussion Outline of the day – Course objectives & an introduction to the tutors

Rules of the lab!

09:30 – 09:45 Presentation & Discussion Types of injections – we will cover joint, tendon sheath, bursal and nerve injections plus more advanced procedures including barbotage, high volume injections, hydrodistention, tendon stripping and dry needling techniques

What should we inject and when? – a review of the evidence and tutors experience

The evidence base for US guided injections – is it worth it?

09:45 – 10:15 Presentation and practical demonstrations Injection technique – How to carry out an in-plane and out-of-plane injection – technical considerations and top tips on how to manipulate the probe and your machine parameters to optimise the needle

10:15 – 11:30 Cadaveric lab – demonstrations & practical workshop Knee – Intra-articular, infra-patellar and superficial bursa and high volume patella tendon, fat pad injection, aspirations, semi-membranosus tendon, Bakers cyst

11:30 – 13:00 Cadaveric lab – demonstrations & practical workshop Ankle & Foot – talo-crural, sinus tarsi, FHL & tibilais posterior sheath, medial and lateral recesss, posterior impingement, Mortons neuroma , 1st MTP, seasamoiditis, Achilles high volume injections and tendon scrapping, plantarfasciitis

13:00 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 – 14:45 Cadaveric lab – demonstrations & practical workshop Hip & groin– Intra-articular hip injection, psoas sheath, ilioinguinal nerve, snapping hip syndrome & common adductor tendon.

14:45 – 15:00 Presentation & Discussion Procedural consideration of US guided injections – discussion around sterility, aseptic technique, probe covers and the use of sterile gel and anti-bacterial agents.

15:00 – 17:00 Cadaveric Lab (the cadavers will be moved onto their sides) Demonstration & Practical Workshop Hip – gluteus medius and minumus, trochanteric bursal injections

Knee – ITB friction syndrome, pes anseurine bursitis

Ankle – peroneal tendon injection, ST joint and sinus tarsi injection

Revision from Day 1