AAOS 2026

March 2-6 | New Orleans | Louisiana

Visit our booth, join surgeon-led sessions and experience technology that takes the limits off living. All at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, March 2-6.
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Focused on your patients’ Life Unlimited

Surgeons don’t attend global tradeshows to hear what they already know. They go to see what’s new at the leading edge of joint repair and reconstruction. We’ll be driving the conversation and demonstrating how to help patients reclaim their Life Unlimited.

Here’s what to expect

Navigate the page below to find booth demonstrations, learning opportunities and big talking points based on your needs and interests, including:

+ Handheld robotics: Find out where pre-operative planning and intra-operative control meet implant innovation in our CORITM Surgical System platform
+ Advanced implant science: Get the latest clinical data and insights on our flagship implant options for hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty (including recent additions to our portfolio)
+ Sports medicine: Find out why clinical evidence is pointing to alternative approaches to joint repair, including bioinductive rotator cuff repair and a breakthrough implant for knee cartilage repair

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Skill amplified

The place to experience handheld robotics

Nothing can replace a surgeons’ skill and intuition, but what if something could take it to another level? When you step into our booth, step into a world where knowledge and expertise are elevated by image-free or image-based pre-operative planning, advanced tools for resection and gap balancing, and an implant portfolio with a track record of evidence-based performance.

For your practice or ASC, experience the agility and freedom of our handheld robotics technology…and find out what it means to have your skill amplified.

CORI handheld robotics platform for knee and hip replacement surgery

Handheld robotics sessions and information

Knee arthroplasty

Aim to restore motion with evidence-based design

Each knee patient has their own Life Unlimited, so find out how we aim to adapt to the individual circumstances and anatomy with our legacy of implant design. Tell us what you need to restore patients’ kinematic function and move beyond the conventional, using advanced capabilities of digital pre-operative planning and handheld robotics.

+ Consider your options in the move toward medial stabilized knee surgery with our evolved LEGION◊ Medial Stabilized System

+ Ask our team for key clinical data on survivorship, and how OXINIUM◊ Oxidized Zirconium and CONCELOC◊ Advanced Porous Titanium makes a difference

+ Build your cases on a foundation of implant performance, combined with the future of personalized planning and handheld control

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Hip arthroplasty implants

From best in class to dual mobility

Versatility and efficiency in hip arthroplasty are key, but implants need to deliver for surgeons and patients. That’s why we’re inviting you to compare your current implant choice to something that checks all the boxes. Stop by our booth and take a closer look at technology that takes the limits off living for your patients.

+ Re-evaluate primary hip cases to include a modular, efficient tray layout and automated impaction with our CATALYSTEM◊ Primary Hip System

+ Make a move toward dual mobility that answers the call for modular flexibility and diffusion-hardened bearing science. Ask for OR3O◊ Dual Mobility

+ Explore the surgical workflow and possibilities for personalization using computer-guided navigation on our CORI System platform

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Shoulder arthroplasty

Elegant design, elevated experience

For the complexities of total and reverse procedures, find the options you need−all in one range, all in one booth. Find out why we set out to make our total shoulder implant technology stand out from the rest…because that’s the only way to help patients reclaim a Life Unlimited.

+ See the new stemless options for our AETOS◊ Shoulder System

+ Assess your workflow and implant options for TSA/RSA conversion

+ Personalize your cases with advanced ATLASPLAN◊ 3D planning and patient-specific instrumentation

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Sports medicine

Expect more than the status quo

We’re inviting sports medicine surgeons to explore bold, alternative ways to look at joint repair, purposefully designed to surpass conventional methods. From next-generation technology to high-quality data that’s hard to ignore, this really is technology that takes the limits off living…with the evidence to back it up.

+ Embrace the future of rotator cuff repair with brand-new Tendon SeamTM Technology (first look at AAOS 2026) and an even stronger case for using the REGENETEN◊ Bioinductive Implant

+ Hear why your peers are adopting different approaches to rotator cuff and cartilage repair, told by surgeons who have seen a difference.

+ Learn why a new standard of evidence-based knee cartilage repair is emerging with the CARTIHEAL◊ Implant

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Continue learning on Academy Online

Go from one Academy to another for more tips and guidance after AAOS. Sign up now for instant access to our comprehensive range of medical education content, surgeon-led courses, and clinical literature. All based on technology that takes the limits off living.

  • Led by leading experts in orthopaedic reconstruction and sports medicine
  • All online and on-demand for your convenience
  • Industry accreditation on select courses, to support your continual professional development
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Disclaimers

*Over 2 and 4 yr follow-up; standard of care = microfracture or debridement.

Products may not be available in all markets because product availability is subject to the regulatory and/or medical practices in individual markets. Please contact your Smith+Nephew representative or distributor if you have questions about the availability of Smith+Nephew products in your area. For detailed product information, including indications for use, contraindications, precautions and warnings, please consult the product’s applicable Instructions for Use (IFU) prior to use.

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