Dr. Pierce Scranton, Jr. is Recognized as a Knee1.com Knee Care Hero for His Work with Athletes from High School to College to the NFL and Beyond

Cambridge, MA, June 1, 2002: Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, recognizes Dr. Pierce Scranton, Jr., as its newest Knee Care Hero. From 1980 until 1997, Dr. Scranton was the team physician for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and served as President of the NFL Physicians Society from 1995-1996. His NFL experiences led him to write his new book, Playing Hurt: Evaluating and Treating the Warriors of the NFL. "There was a huge spectrum of change in the 18 years from combines to the delivery of health care to the involvement of agents … (and) no one knows what happened except for the 'Old Guard.' I thought I should write about this." Dr. Scranton is currently the President of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society and is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Washington. He is a well-recognized expert in the OATS procedure for replacing defective articular cartilage in knees.

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.