The 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
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EDITORIAL
The 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Mitsuo Ochi
Published online: 13 March 2013 Ó The Japanese Orthopaedic Association 2013
It is a tremendous honor to host the 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (86th JOA) in Hiroshima. The meeting will take place from May 23 to 26, 2013, in four venues that are all within 10 minutes’ walk of the city center: Hiroshima Green Arena, the Rihga Royal Hotel Hiroshima, NTT Cred Hall, and Mielparque Hiroshima. Hiroshima is a thriving, vibrant city, having risen from the destruction of the atomic bomb in WWII, and today serves as a city that is dedicated to permanent world peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons. As Japan looks to the future and aims to revitalize itself in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the opportunity to host the 86th JOA carries a profound significance and sense of mission for us. The earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 took many precious lives and triggered the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. How well did we apply experience gained in the Kobe earthquake of January 17, 1995 and other past disasters to this event? While such lessons were put to good use in many aspects of the response, I understand that this was not always the case. The process of disaster recovery has only just begun, but I believe we need to verify past facts and remember new and painful experiences so that we can make use of them in the future. Over the course of history, humans have had the opportunity to learn a great many things. Have we made sufficient use of such lessons? The theme for the 86th JOA is ‘Let’s learn from history,’ by which we mean shedding
M. Ochi (&) Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Integrated Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan e-mail: [email protected]
light on the past and understanding the present to seek new solutions for the future. In orthopaedics, too, we hope to clarify changes from past practice and learn from the lessons of the past to address the pressing issue of anticipating future treatments for locomotive organ disorders. During the 20th century, Japan made remarkable contributions to medical care. The long list of achievements includes developments in minimally invasive surgery using arthroscopy, tissue transplant via microsurgery, and advances in cervical laminoplasty. Endoscopes for examining the body cavity via the mouth, anus or urethra were developed long ago, but Professor Kenji Takagi and his team at the University of Tokyo were the first to devise a method for inserting an endoscope into a closed cavity via a scalpel incision [1]. They began researching arthroscopy in 1918, and by 1931 had successfully conducted arthroscopy of the knee. Dr. Masaki Watanabe of Tokyo Teishin Hospital improved the technique, introducing the Watanabe no. 21 arthroscope in 1959 and conducting the first meniscectomy under arthroscopy in 1962 [2]. In 1968 Dr. Shigeo Komatsu and Professor Susumu T
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