Hip Resurfacing Information

You can use this community to tell your story to your family, your friends... and we'll save it in our searchable Patient Profile Registry. This Registry will share your story with others long after you've forgotten you ever had pain in that hip.

You can help others in the same way that someone,
somewhere helped you...by telling your story.

When you join the community you will be asked to create a
user name and password to protect your privacy!

The Patient Community is a great place to start collecting your Patient Profile by blogging on your experience, collecting your photos and videos, and seeing how others are telling their story.

This blog is a health journal - public or completely private - your decision. Join and start to document your story. If you do decide to make it public you can allow other members to comment on your story, get encouragement and ideas.

When you feel your story is complete enough, and decide to share - let us know and we'll begin Part three by creating a webpage for your story and connecting it to your entry in the Patient Registry Database.

How To Register:

Click on“last tab on this menu

Click on Register at the very top of the page - it's pretty small

Check “I agree to terms”

Enter a login user name--only you will know this

Enter a “Display” name--the name that will appear within the site

Enter a password and confirm it

Enter email address--this should be a private email address you actually check

Members will not see this address.

However, when you receive messages from members, you’ll be notified at this
address that you’ve received a message.

Enter the Security Code info that is visible

Check OK to receive email.

Your Control Page & Navigating the Community Site

Once you are in the Community site, you will have two sets of navigational aids:

Your Personal Guides are located on the blue bars at the top of each page on the right. Click on "My Controls" to get to your Control Panel where you can check private messages and quickly access your materials on the site. This is where you can change your password, your photo, start a blog, check messages.

The Site Guides are on the matching blue bars just below the logo and will take you to specific areas within the site: Gallery, Downloads (which has all the papers/videos), Calendar (see calendar listing for great features) and both a Search and help Feature.

Hip Resurfacing Discussions: To get to the discussions area click on the Resurfacing Discussions listed on the left of every page just below the Site Guide bars.

As you move around the site you'll notice that just to the right of the Resurfacing Discussions button a line of "breadcrumbs" will automatically generate. You can click on any site location you have visited during this session and the "breadcrumbs" will take you directly to it.

Your Blog

• When did you first notice you had a problem?

• Where did you hear about Hip Resurfacing?

• What are your symtoms now? What were they before and how have the progressed?

• How did you find your surgeon? Why this one?

These are all important questions that you can write about in your online blog.

Creating a Blog:

Log into the online Patient Community (here)

click on the My Controls link

Find the Community Blog listing in the left column, and click on the "Create a Blog" listing. (the "Blog Tracker" will let you track other patient's blogs that you are interested in.)

Agree to the blog terms and rules

Name Your blog - give a description.

Leave setting at Local Blog

If you choose to enable friendly URL's then this will allow you to send your blog to others easier.

If you want to keep your blog private - just click Private Blog - now it is you own private journal.

Hit submit and you have created a blog.

Hip Resurfacing Discussions:

Participating in a Discussion is easy and probably the most important feature of this community site.

Hip Resurfacing Discussions: To get to the discussions area click on the Resurfacing Discussions listed on the left of every page just below the Site Guide bars.

The Discussions section is organized as follows:

Catagory: The first listing is the catagory and will define what the general theme of all the forums beneath its title will follow.

Forum: Under each Catagory you'll find a listing of the Forums that fall under this topic. Beneath the Forum title you'll see a listing of topics in gray. You can reach the topics by clicking on the forum and then clicking on the now blue topic you wish to explore.

There are several ways to post to a Forum Topic:

Reply

Allows you to post to any topic and add attachments. The "Reply" option will give you tools to format your posting.

Fast Reply

There will be a fast reply button on each topic. Clicking this will open up a posting box on the topic view screen, cutting down on the time required to load the main posting screen. Click the fast reply button to expand the reply box and type the post inside of there.

Quoting Posts

Displayed below each post in a topic, there is a 'Quote' button. Pressing this button will allow you to reply to a topic, and have the text from a particular reply quoted in your own reply. When you choose to do this, an extra text field will appear below the main text input box to allow you to edit the content of the post being quoted.

Editing Posts

Above any posts that you have made, you may see an 'Edit' button. Pressing this will allow you to edit the post that you had previously made.

Find detailed Instructions for any function by clicking on the help file in the Community!
If you need assistance email us by clicking here: Admin Help! include your contact information

Videos

Locating: Videos are located in the Downloads section of the Community.

Watching: The videos are organized in categories. We use a streaming technology that will allow you to watch the movie without overloading your computer with the huge storage needs of video. The movies will be "scrubable" which means that once they are fully loaded for playing you can move the motion bar to the point you want to watch and even rewatch a clip over and over.

When you do watch them - please rate them . Overtime the aggregated rating system will become very usefull to others.

Uploading: To upload a video you would like to share simply access the DropBox located on the front page at HipResurfacinginfo.com/index or click here: Downloads

Articles:

Locating: Articles are located in the Downloads section of the Community and are organized by categories.

You can read the abstract or first page before deciding whether to read the papers online or download them for future study.

When you do read them - please rate them.
Overtime the aggregated rating system will become very usefull to the community.

Calendar:

When you log into the Calendar you will see your personal calendar. While there will be Administrative Posts placed on all Community Calendars that will be visible on yours - all entries you post to your calendar can be seen by you alone.

The calendar will provide information to all members on events/trainings/offerings related to resurfacing!

If you know of an event of general interest, please forward it to us and we'll post it to the community calendar!
Click here to let us know of an event!

Find detailed Instructions for any function by clicking on the help file in the Community!
If you need assistance email us by clicking here: Admin Help! include your contact information.

Photos

Locating: Photos are located in the Gallery section of the community. Similar to the Discussions area, they are orgazined into catagories, and then "albums". Each photo should have a title, a listing of who contributed the photo, or collection of photos, ect.

Zoom in! One of the best features in the Gallery is not only can you click on the photo to make it larger, if you click a second time you can zoom in and see every detail - the photos lose almost no definition. The quality of the photo does effect this feature but if you need to see exactly where the cut was made...this is the way to do it!

Submitting an Image
To submit an image to a category, visit the category you wish to submit your image to, and click on 'New Image'. To bulk upload images, click 'Bulk Upload'. Other file types (such as movies), can be loaded under 'New Media' - however the file size allowed is prohibative and the best way to load movies is to use the Media Drop Box.

Similarly, to submit an image to one of your own albums, you can visit your album in the Gallery and click on 'New Image' or 'New Media'. You can also go to 'My Controls' and select 'Upload Image' from the drop down next to any of your albums.

Rating an Image
You can rate images in the Gallery. Visit an image, and select the rating you wish to apply to it from the drop down rate menu, and click 'Rate'.

Managing Your Albums
Visit your 'My Controls' page, and click on 'Your Albums' (or click on the 'My Albums' link in the member bar at the top of the page after you have created at least one album). You can create, edit, delete, and upload images to albums from this page. When adding or editing an album, note that you can either create a private album to host your images within, or you can create a public album viewable to all members.

Managing to your Favorites
To add an image to your list of favorites, when viewing an image click the 'Favorite' button.

To remove an image from your favorites go to your 'My Controls' page, and click 'Your Favorites'. Click the remove image button next to any image you wish to remove. Additionally, you can bulk download all of the images in your favorites list from this page.

Sending an Ecard
You can send an ecard to someone via email by visiting the image page and clicking the Ecard link. You will be able to customize some of the properties of the ecard, and specify an email address. When the recipient receives the email, they will then be able to follow the link to view the image with your personalized message. (Note: only members can follow the link - they will have to be registered and log in before reaching the destination intended.)

Find detailed Instructions for any function by clicking on the help file in the Community.

Calendar:

When you log into the Calendar you will see your personal calendar. While there will be Administrative Posts placed on all Community Calendars that will be visible on yours - all entries you post to your calendar can be seen by you alone.

The calendar will provide information to all members on events/trainings/offerings related to resurfacing.

If you know of an event of general interest, please forward it to us and we'll post it to the community calendar!
Click here to let us know of an event.

Find detailed Instructions for any function by clicking on the help file in the Community!
If you need assistance email us by clicking here: Admin Help include your contact information

Help

There is a lot to learn - that is why this site offers full service.

The first line of help is the help feature in the Community of practice. It is surprisingly complete and easy to search.

The second line of help is to email us at the link below. We check this email constantly and will respond as quickly as possible with an answer or a phone call. Be sure to include the issue and contant information in your request for assistance.

Find detailed Instructions for any function by clicking on the help file in the Community!
If you need assistance email us by clicking here: Admin Help! include your contact information