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As we build up our reference resources on the topic of 'arthrofibrosis', I have decided to keep them together in a 'keynote'. Here you find in one place all Dr Noyes' tutorials about arthrofibrosis, Dirk Kokmeyer's rehabilitation tutorials, all the literature reviews I have tackled so far, and several other papers of interest to readers.

This article may be of interest to readers - Prolotherapy in Knee Pain.

Prolotherapy is a treatment that has a place within the clinician's armamentarium for damaged soft tissues. It relies on injecting the local area with substances that stimulate the normal cascade of healing chemicals.

'Water-on-the-knee' should really probably be called 'fluid-in-the-knee'. The fluid is not just water, and the fluid it is IN the knee not ON it. 

The knee joint cavity is lined with a membrane that produces lubricating fluid to help the smooth movement of the knee in bending and straightening. This fluid is normally like egg white, and the knee cavity normally contains a little under a teaspoon (less than 3.5 millilitres) of this fluid. It is called 'synovial fluid' and the membrane that produces the fluid is called 'the synovium' or the 'synovial membrane'.

There are so many sites on the internet now that doing a search can be really frustrating. Especially when up comes dozens of sites with the same content or, even worse, sites with nothing but ads on them. Also one has to comb through the content to separate out the type of content a patient can understand from the type of content aimed at surgeons.

So I have put together two search engines (using a Google application) especially for you. One has patient content and the other is content for doctors. There should be very little rubbish coming up when you search.

Ergomaniac just gave me this link. It is a slideshow by Dr Anthony Schepsis  - just click through it using the 'Next' buttons or walk down the menu on the left of the slideshow.

I decided to start this new section of the KNEEguru website because I could see that something more was needed to support the core bulletin board members in their efforts to pass their knowledge and experience onto others.