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Announcing New Spine Health Hubs
If you like one-stop shopping for information on back pain, you’ll like Spine-health.com’s new Health Hubs. What are these Hubs and why are we hosting them? Read on…!
What are Health Hubs and why should I use them?
The new Spine-health.com Health Hubs are incredibly convenient information centers, or “hubs”, focused on a specific topic (e.g., Better Sleep) related to back pain conditions and treatments. Each Hub brings together Spine-health’s top-rated, peer-reviewed articles along with our other patient-oriented resources to make learning about a particular topic simple. No where else on the Internet will you find this volume of spine medicine information that is medical journal quality, patient friendly, and unbiased by commercial influence.Article continues below
Why Health Hubs?
An astute reader pointed out to us that Spine-health.com has more information on a range of specific topics – such as office chairs, mattresses, pillows and sleep, spine fractures, etc. - than most sites that are dedicated to that single topic. But with Spine-health’s huge volume of information – over 2,000 pages of text – it was difficult to find all the information about a topic. The hubs bring together all the information on each topic as a “site within a site” – including peer reviewed articles, interactive surveys and questionnaires, and more.What’s included in the Health Hubs?
All the Health Hubs follow the same basic layout, with a few additional bells and whistles added from time to time. You can refer to our Ergonomic Seating Health Hub to see these features live.
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Intro: The title and introductory paragraph tell you at a glance what topic a particular Health Hub is about.
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Featured articles: In the center of the Hub, you’ll first see Peer Reviewed Articles specific to the Hub topic. Several articles will be featured – you can read an excerpt and click the link to read the full article. Links to other topic-specific articles will be next, followed by a link to the full index of articles about the topic (e.g., “Complete index of osteoarthritis articles…”).
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Interactive info: Below the featured articles, you’ll see interactive info about the spine topic. This includes the advice and experiences of our patient users (such as snippets from advice patients shared in our Community section or in a relevant message board thread) and individual viewpoints on a topic from one of our Physician Members. Look at this section as a way to get unique insights from other patients and doctors in a less formal manner.
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Related topics: This selection of links is a shortcut to other articles that are likely to be interesting to readers of this particular Hub. The articles in this list may address related conditions, conditions commonly confused with the Hub topic, or greater depth on potential treatments. These links serve as a great navigation aid to other relevant topics on the site.
What Health Hubs are available?
There are currently five Health Hubs available, with many more in development. Why not check out a few Hubs today to see what new tips for back pain relief you can try over the weekend!
We hope you find these new Health Hubs a helpful way to get the specific information you need – providing a comprehensive view of the topic and related topics, and giving you the depth you need to really understand the condition or treatment. And – as always – it’s all free... Please let us know about Health Hubs you’d like to see added soon!
Best wishes,
Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., MD, Medical Director
Stephanie Burke, President
Spine-health.com
About the Spine-health.com Newsletter: Each issue of the Spine-health.com newsletter, SpineNews Update, is written by the founders of Spine-health.com - Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., M.D., Medical Director for Spine-health.com and Stephanie Burke, President of Spine-health.com.The content in the newsletters is not peer reviewed by Spine-health.com’s Medical Advisory Board.The articles to which the Spine-health.com newsletters link have been peer reviewed by members of the Medical Advisory Board.
