Knee1.com Honors Dr. Michael Kelly as a Knee Care Hero: From ACL Injuries to Total Knee Replacements, Dr. Kelly is Focused on Getting the Injured Athletes Back on the Field Quickly and Safely

Cambridge, MA, May 1, 2002: Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, recognized Dr. Michael Kelly as its newest Knee Care Hero. Dr. Kelly is Co-Director of the Insall Scott Kelly Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in New York City. His practice focuses on knee injuries, specifically total knee replacement surgery. "We are focusing on several new concepts in knee replacement. One is we have designed what is called the high-flexion knee. This was spurred by areas of the world that have very significant flexion." Asked about what he considers one of the best innovations in orthopedic surgery, Dr. Kelly believes it's "our ability to restore athletes with ACL injuries back to the court, not so much get then back but get them back so much more quickly with less pain and less stiffness … I think it has been the combination of surgical techniques, instrumentation and clinical research that has facilitated the recovery."

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.