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. SPORTS MEDICINE : MEDICAL: INFORMATION: ONLINE AND INTERNET: Sports Medicine Advice Online Varies Widely Sports Medicine Advice Online Varies Widely Last Updated: Friday, July 2, 2010 | 3:57 PM ET Comments20Recommend4. CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/02/ sports-medicine-internet-sites.html> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/297l3hy> Sports medicine information from online sites varies widely in quality, say doctors who reviewed advice for 10 common diagnoses. Patients often come to doctors' offices with printouts of information from the web, but the quality of information has not kept up with the pace of internet use, U.S. researchers say. In the July issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Dr. Madhav Karunakar, an orthopedic surgeon at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., and colleagues reviewed the top 10 search results on Google and Yahoo for 10 diagnoses: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. Medial collateral ligament (MCL) tear. Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) tear. Rotator cuff tear. Meniscal tear. Labral tear (shoulder ligament injury). Tennis elbow. Acromioclavicular joint separation (shoulder separation). Patellofemoral syndrome (knee pain). Osteochondral defect (joint defect). Researchers reviewed the sites for completeness, correctness and clarity of the information, as well as the source of information, such as a nonprofit organization, news source, academic institution, individual, physician or commercial enterprise. <snip> Beware of net-based medicine information Saturday, July 03, 2010 5:39:02 AM by IANS <http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health1/ beware-of-net-based-medicine-information_100390024.html> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/2cpebtv> Washington, July 3 (IANS) Beware. Information you seek from the internet on physical problems arising due to sports may not be accurate. Orthopaedic surgeon Madhav A. Karunakar at the Carolinas Medical Centre in Charolotte in the US explains why it is so. <snip> Additionally, physicians should be prepared to discuss this information with their patients in order to ensure that it is not misinterpreted. <snip> The least accurate information sources were newspaper articles and personal websites. About 20 percent of the sites that turned up in the top 10 results were sponsored sites, Karunakar says, according to a Carolinas Medical Centre statement. These site owners are motivated to promote their product. So the information found there may be biased. We also found these sites rarely mentioned the risks or complications associated with treatment as they are trying to represent their product in the best possible light, he said. ----------------------------------------- The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each. James S. Starman, F. Keith Gettys, Jason A. Capo, James E. Fleischli, H. James Norton, and Madhav A. Karunakar Quality and Content of Internet-Based Information for Ten Common Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Diagnoses J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2010;92:1612-1618. Conclusions The quality and content of health information on the Internet is highly variable for common sports medicine topics. 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