Dr. Josh Siegel of New Hampshire's Access Sports Medicine is Honored for Keeping His Athletes "Stable" and Injury-Free

Cambridge, MA, February 12, 2002: Shoulder1.com, a leading Internet Web site for shoulder health information, is honoring Dr. Josh Siegel of Exeter, New Hampshire, as its most recent Shoulder Care Hero, recognizing him as a world-wide leader in orthopedic shoulder care.

Dr. Siegel is involved in a variety of innovative developments in shoulder arthroscopy and has lectured nationally on these developments. He works closely with the University of New Hampshire Women's Hockey team. "It is interesting that the number of shoulder injuries we see coming out of women's hockey has been increasing over the past 2-3 years," says Siegel. "Shoulder instability is generally a subjective diagnosis … Once the diagnosis is made, however, quite a bit can be done to help prevent both future instability episodes through an aggressive physical therapy and conditioning program." For the full article, see "Dr. Josh Siegel: Keeping His Athletes Stable and Injury-Free" on the Shoulder Care Hero page at www.Shoulder1.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. The Shoulder Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading shoulder surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.