Or read below to find out the benefits of licensing Your Orthopaedic Connection for your practice.

Licensing Your Orthopaedic Connection
What do I get by licensing Your Orthopaedic Connection?
Customized Patient Education Links for Your Web Site

Customize the peer-reviewed, physician developed information on the Your Orthopaedic Connection (YOC) website with your practice information.  With this feature, articles that appear on the YOC website through links from your practice’s website will include your name and practice information.

It’s easy. Simply register, select the articles you want to link to, click a button, and the html code is generated. Your web programmer can add this code to your website, and the links are ready to go!

Click here to see how this works.

When using these links to get to YOC, your patients will be taken to a page that includes your name and practice information along with the patient education content.

Of course, you can always link to YOC under the free linking policy described in the What is Your Linking Policy? section below. With this option, your patient will see only a generic version of the articles that does not include your name and practice information.

Customized Patient Education for Your Practice

Printed articles can be customized with your practice information. Register, use the customized links, and print patient education materials. Have customized patient education materials onhand to give to your patients or to have on display in your waiting room.

Printing patient education "on demand" reduces the amount of space that you need to store patient education materials.

The patient education articles will be regularly reviewed and updated automatically.

Click here to see how this works.

Customized Lists to Direct Your Patients to Information You Choose

When you link to Your Orthopaedic Connection (YOC) through the customization program, you get access can create and print any number of customized lists of YOC patient education material. that allows you to create, name, and print any number of customized lists of YOC patient education material.

Photocopy these lists and have them on hand to check off specific YOC articles you would like your patients to view at their leisure on their own computers.

Click here to see how this works.

Who may license Your Orthopaedic Connection content?

Individuals and medical practices may license the content through this program. Medical practices must subscribe through individuals, rather than as an organizational customer.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is currently reviewing its corporate and institutional licensing programs. If you would like to be contacted regarding corporate and institutional licensing, please contact us.

Does it cost anything?

Yes. Various types of licensing subscriptions are available. Contact us for more information.

What do I need to do?

Simply click here to subscribe to this service. Once you have subscribed, click here to log into the site in order to

  • select articles and generate html links to them to paste into your own web pages
  • select articles and print out checklists of patient education materials to copy and have on hand to give to patients
  • update practice information

Use the links created above (log in is not necessary) to produce and print patient education materials that includes your practice information

Who can I talk to if I have more questions or special circumstances?
Technical Issues

For answers to technical questions, contact Your Orthopaedic Connection technical support:

Special Licensing Requests & Other

For special licensing requests, contact Jane Baque, Senior Manager, Online Publications

What is your general linking policy?

Any web site is encouraged to link to either the homepage of Your Orthopaedic Connection (OrthoInfo.aaos.org) or to any of the interior pages and documents of Your Orthopaedic Connection, adhering to the following rules:

  1. Any web site may link directly to Your Orthopaedic Connection or any interior page. Using this method, control is transferred from the originating web site to the web site maintained by the AAOS.
  2. Any web site may link to Your Orthopaedic Connection or any interior page by opening a new browser window that displays the AAOS's content. Using this method, two (or more) browser windows are open (one from the originating web site and one or more containing information from Your Orthopaedic Connection).
  3. Web sites may not link to Your Orthopaedic Connection using frames, in which material in Your Orthopaedic Connection would be framed within the originating web site.
Do you have any other materials for educating my patients?

Click here for a list of other patient education materials from the AAOS.