Simplify Your Knee Health Journey
BORIS™ Symptom Tracker
If you are living with progressive knee pain, stiffness, or difficulty managing daily activities, understanding how your symptoms change over time is one of the most powerful steps you can take.
To help you clearly communicate what you are experiencing, Dr Matthew Liptak, an established orthopaedic surgeon in Adelaide, developed BORIS™ (the Basic Rapid Orthopaedic Indicator Score). Available exclusively through the Adelaide Knee Clinic, BORIS™ is a simple, user-friendly digital questionnaire designed to help patients measure knee pain and function accurately, translating real-world experience into an actionable care plan.
Why Use BORIS™ to Track Your Knee Pain?
When consulting an Adelaide knee specialist or your local General Practitioner (GP), explaining exactly how a joint affects your life can sometimes feel difficult.
The tool looks closely at the two most important areas of your joint health
- Pain: You will rate the discomfort you have felt during daily activities over the last 7 days.
- Function: You will rate how much your knee has affected your ability to move and manage daily life over the last 48 hours.
BORIS™ Results
Once you complete these two simple ratings, your scores are combined to place you into one of three easy-to-understand ‘Symptom Zones’. These zones act as a guide for your next medical review or treatment discussion.
Traditional medical questionnaires are often incredibly long, complex, and frustrating for patients to complete. BORIS™ was built to change that by focusing on what truly matters to your lifestyle:
- Fast and Straightforward: It takes just a couple of minutes to complete.
- Easy to Understand: It swaps complicated medical jargon for clear, practical results.
- Built for Action: It helps you and your doctor figure out the next best steps for your knee pain treatment in Adelaide.
Understanding BORIS™
What It Is and What It Is Not
Real-world healthcare recognises that people are far more than just a number; therefore, BORIS™ serves as an extra piece of the puzzle to help ensure your care pathway is clear, interactive, and deeply personalised.
What BORIS™ Is:
- A structured way to reflect on and monitor your joint pain and mobility over time.
- A reliable conversation starter to bring to your next GP or specialist appointment to explain exactly how you are feeling.
- A support tool designed to improve shared understanding and guide next steps in your care.
What BORIS™ Is Not:
- A medical diagnosis or a standalone piece of medical advice.
- A replacement for a formal clinical consultation and physical assessment by a qualified doctor.
- An automatic decision-maker that takes away your choice, or a guarantee of specific treatment or surgical outcomes.
Information for General Practitioners & Healthcare Professionals
Are you a medical practitioner, physiotherapist, or researcher looking to read the full clinical rationale behind this streamlined PROM framework? You are invited to review our formal data, peer insights, and clinical methodology.
Take the first step towards better knee health
Experiencing joint pain? Managing a knee condition? Establishing a clear functional baseline is a highly effective way to begin your recovery.