Dr. Bernard R. Bach: A Knee Care Hero Using Research & Education to Help Improve the Treatment of Orthopedic Injuries

Cambridge, MA, November 14, 2001: Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, is honoring Dr. Bernard R. Bach as its newest Knee Care Hero. As the Director of the Sports Medicine program at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, he is focused on sports medicine research and education. It is that research that Dr. Bach believes has had a great impact on the care of athletes and others suffering orthopedic injuries. His current focus is on knee ligaments injuries, specifically the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL).

Body1, Inc. was founded in February 1999 to provide on-line health and wellness information to consumers. The company focuses on interactively communicating with patients by partnering with technology innovators and collecting the leading voices and experts in a specific field into one place-a Knowledge Cooperative (KnowCo). Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within five miles of Harvard, MIT and the world's largest concentration of teaching hospitals, Body1's founding group includes physicians, medical writers, business executives and computer specialists from these institutions.

Knee1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive knee information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent knee conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their knee stories and ask doctors questions. Knee1 is sponsored by medical technology titan Smith + Nephew and Genzyme Biosurgery. The Knee Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading knee surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.