In June 1978, a small group of surgeons, physiatrists and therapists met in Edinburgh for what was to become the First International Conference on Surgical Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb in tetraplegic patients.

The conference set the bases of functional restoration of the paralysed upper limbs in cervical spinal cord injury patients. At that meeting, a surgical classification was developed, which was subsequently established in its current form as the ‘International Classification’, during a second conference held six years later in Giens, France (1984).

Due to growing awareness of the potential of upper limb surgery in tetraplegia, many conferences followed, with increasing number of participants, and the last conference held in Philadelphia in September 2007 was very successful.

We invite you to attend the 9th Tetraplegia Hand Conference, which will take place in Paris, next September 20-22, 2010. The meeting will be hosted by the prestigious Institution Nationale des Invalides, and will take place in the historic Musée National des Invalides, right next to Napoleon’s tomb.

We will try our best to make your visit memorable, and we are looking forward to welcoming you in Paris.