The New Face of Rotator Cuff Repair: Dr. Alan Curtis Honored as a Shoulder Care Hero

Cambridge, MA, June 25, 2001: Shoulder1.com, a leading Internet Web site for shoulder health information, is honoring Massachusetts Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Alan Curtis as its most recent Shoulder Care Hero, recognizing him as a worldwide leader in orthopedic shoulder care.

Dr. Alan Curtis is a pioneer in the treatment and repair of rotator cuff injuries. He was one of the first orthopedic surgeons to study how consistent, smaller loads-rather than large ones-may damage a rotator cuff repair. Several years ago, he began combining two techniques of rotator cuff repair to increase the bone tendon contact areas and make for a stronger repair. Dr. Curtis specializes in Sports Medicine and Occupational Medicine. He is on the staff of the New England Baptist Bone & Joint Institute, which was formed in 1995 through the combination of the world-renowned orthopedic expertise of Boston's New England Baptist Hospital and the superior rheumatology services of New England Deaconess Hospital. For the full article, see "The New Face of Rotator Cuff Repair: Dr. Alan Curtis and His Approach to Shoulders" on the Shoulder Care Hero page at www.Shouder1.com.

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.

Shoulder1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive shoulder information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent shoulder conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their shoulder stories and ask doctors questions. Shoulder1 is sponsored by medical technology titan Smith + Nephew. The Shoulder Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading shoulder surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.