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ISPO UK MS ASM 2025 - IT’S A WRAP!

This week’s ISPO UK MS Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 brought together brilliant minds at the Trent Conference Centre, Nottingham.

United by our shared mission to advance prosthetics, orthotics, rehabilitation, technology, and human mobility. The theme of this year’s conference — “Human Recovery Augmented: Technology in Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine” — captured our aspiration: to blend human resilience, clinical insight, and technological innovation in ways that make a real difference to people’s lives

ISPO UK Chair Stephen Seccombe opened the meeting with an address that reminded us that as we look ahead, we face both opportunities and responsibilities. Advances in wearable sensors, robotics, AI-driven rehabilitation, remote monitoring are more than buzzwords. They have the potential to reshape how we think about recovery, independence, and quality of life for people with long-term conditions, amputation, neurological damage, musculoskeletal disease, pain, fatigue, burns, and more. However, technology is not a panacea. Its promise is only fulfilled when combined with human-centred design, clinical insight, patient voices, and rigorous evaluation. We must ensure equity in access, meaningful outcomes, and sustainable models of care.

Highlights from the meeting included:-

Engaging Free Paper Presentations from all disciplines that included: diabetes-related re-amputation prevention, prosthetic usability studies, the clinical efficacy of MPC-KAFOs, a retrospective analysis of primary assessments timings and a retrospective review of recreational prostheses usages. Additionally an interesting case study showing how innovative orthotic solutions has taken an individual from possible amputation to fully deployable active military service. 



Thought-provoking Blatchford Lecture by Prof. Dr. Carlos A Cifuentes on the future of robotic using is assistive devices and how his team are co-creating innovative health technologies to empower users, foster independence, and reduce the burden on carers and healthcare systems.

A fascinating case study session with guest bilateral upper limb amputee, Cesar Vargas-Razo, who demonstrated a high level of functionality and a helpful reminder that great clinical outcomes can be achieved with ‘lower-tech’.

The day and presentations allowed for very interactive discussions with all speakers, delegates as well as the poster presenters.

Thank you to all presenters: Nouf Alharbi, Vikranth Harthikote Nagaraja, Rob Green-Buckley, Vanessa Walters, Samir Al-Mitwally, Kirsten Porter, Prof Dr Carlos A Cifuentes and Cesar Vargas-Razo.

Thank you to those who presented or shared their posters at our meeting.

Thank you also to our sponsors: Blatchford, Steeper and Otto Bock and the organising committees from ISPO UK and BSPRM.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to make this event a success.  

We hope to see many of you ... and more ... at our next ISPO UK ASM in Cardiff in October 2026!