Breaking new ground with e-patient resources

The KNEEguru website is a resource for patients who want to know more about their own knees – knee problems, knee surgery, knee arthritis and knee rehabilitation.

Founded in 1994 as an independent resource for a global audience the KNEEguru website encourages patients to take an active role in the management of their conditions. The site has a vibrant and growing community of over 15,000 members and it is currently the top ranked site for a UK Google search on ‘knee’. Increasingly, patients are being directed to the KNEEguru website by their GP or orthopaedic consultant.

The Internet provides an exciting moving platform for education and the KNEEguru website offers information at many levels – from a simple dictionary, through structured general information, then a bulletin board and in-depth reviews – all the way to tutor-led courses. Recent contributors to the site include orthopaedic surgeons Drs Ronald Grelsamer, Frank Noyes, Peter Millett and Angus Strover; UK physiotherapists Karen Hambly and Lesley Hall; USA physical therapists Holly Silvers and Dirk Kokmeyer; and research director Sue Barber-Westin. Topics have included such areas as arthrofibrosis, rehabilitation modalities, nutritional supplements, articular cartilage repair, prevention strategies, arthroscopies and patellofemoral issues.

Physiotherapist Karen Hambly states – “The KNEEguru website keeps the person on the street in touch with the latest research without confounding them with medical jargon.” KNEEguru’s commitment to offering both sides of issues is unquestionably breaking new ground.

Bringing the site right up to date, surgeons can now have their own mini-site on KNEEguru with web-blogs (online commentaries) and RSS feeds have been set up to notify you whenever new KNEEguru material is posted. So, where next for KNEEguru? Well, if you fancy listening to some knee topics on your way to work you will soon be able to do so with the launch of a new series of KNEEguru podcasts.

Further Information:

The KNEEguru website intends to support and not replace medical consultation.

www.kneeguru.co.uk

info@kneeguru.co.uk