Recovery · for people recovering from knee or hip replacement
JointRoad is a recovery journal for people in the 12 weeks after knee or hip replacement surgery. You choose the joint and enter the surgery date, and every day gets a card with a short note on what tends to be common in that week, plus a stamp you press to check in. Pain, swelling, range of motion copied from therapy, and exercise checks collect on a 12-week road, and before an appointment the app turns them into a summary PDF you can share or print. There is no account, and nothing you log leaves the phone.
Home is a card for today, labeled with the day and week since surgery. For a knee in week 3 it reads "Swelling like this is common right now," a note about that stretch of recovery rather than a verdict on yours. Tap Check in and a stamp presses down with a haptic tap; on days when logging is too much, that one tap marks the day. A line to the warning-signs list sits under every card.
The Road tab lays out 84 days as twelve rows of seven, one row per week. Stamped days fill in, today gets a ring, and once two weeks have entries a line compares them, such as pain down 2 and flexion up 15°. Weekly charts of pain and range of motion sit underneath.
Choose the last 2 weeks, the last 4 weeks, or all time, then share or print. The PDF sets out pain and range of motion by week, your exercise log, your notes by date, and on the last page the questions you saved, each with a checkbox. The file is deleted from the phone once it has been shared or printed.
Three weeks after a joint replacement, it is easy to lie awake wondering whether the swelling is supposed to look like this. JointRoad puts a card on the home screen for that moment. It is labeled with the day and week since surgery and describes what public patient guides say is common around that point. The card changes as the weeks move on, and the knee and the hip each have their own set.
The card talks about the week, not about you. JointRoad never reads your entries to decide whether something is fine, and it has no symptom checker. Every card carries one line that opens a fixed list of warning signs worth calling your care team about, with a button that dials the emergency number for the region your phone is set to. The list is the same for everyone and says plainly that it is not a diagnosis.
The stamp is the one piece of ceremony. It lands with a press, a small spread of ink, and a haptic tap, and the very first stamp gets a bigger one. If Reduce Motion is on, it simply fades in.
Pain is a grid of numbers from 0 to 10. Swelling and bruising are None, A little, or A lot, and a note is optional. Log as many times a day as you like: the last entry counts for that day, the earlier ones stay in the history, and any entry can be deleted.
Range of motion is copied in, not measured. For a knee you enter how far it bends and how far it is from straight; for a hip, how far it bends and the walking aid you are using, from walker to crutches to cane to no aid. The app does not use the camera and does not measure anything.
Each week also brings a checklist of exercises and everyday tasks you can tick off, and you can add your own. If your physical therapist gave you a program, that comes first; the list is only for keeping track. Saving any entry stamps the day for you.
If surgery is still ahead, enter the scheduled date. Home counts down the days, and from two weeks out a prep list fills in: clearing tripping hazards, moving everyday things within reach, practicing with a walking aid, lining up help, and rereading the hospital's instructions. With reminders on, the day before surgery brings a prep reminder instead of the usual one.
When the 84 days are up, the card says the 12 weeks are done. Logging keeps working for as long as you want it, and the summary PDF can still cover the whole stretch.
Appointments are short, and the question you had at 2 a.m. is easy to lose by the time you are in the room. JointRoad keeps a separate list for those. Write a question, up to 200 characters, and it goes onto the last page of the summary PDF with an empty checkbox beside it.
Mark one I asked this and it drops out of the next PDF; move it back if you need to, or delete it. The app does not answer any of them. The answers come from your care team, and the screen says so.
There is no account and no server. JointRoad makes no network requests and carries no analytics SDK, so your pain entries and surgery date are stored only on the device.
The PDF is built on the phone when you ask for it. Before it is shared or printed, a prompt reminds you that it holds sensitive health details, and the file is deleted afterwards. Erase everything in Settings clears every log, stamp, question, reminder setting, and your surgery details in one step, after a confirmation.
The daily reminder is optional and comes at a time you pick, 8 p.m. unless you change it. Notification permission is asked only when you switch it on, and the text never mentions surgery or pain, because a lock screen is visible to anyone nearby.
JointRoad is a recovery journal, not medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat, or measure anything, and it does not replace your surgeon, physical therapist, or care team. If something worries you, call them.
The cover of every summary PDF says the same thing in print: the pages hold entries the patient recorded in the app, and they are not a medical record.
No. The daily card describes what public patient guides say is common in that week of recovery, and it is the same for everyone at that point. The app never reads your entries to judge your own recovery. Under every card is a line to a list of warning signs worth calling your care team about.
Yes. You choose knee or hip at the start. The hip has its own weekly cards and checklist, and its range-of-motion entry asks for hip bend and your current walking aid. You can change the joint or surgery date later in Settings, and your entries stay.
Yes. The summary PDF can be printed straight from the phone or sent through the share sheet. It uses Letter paper in the US and a few other countries and A4 elsewhere. If nothing is logged in the chosen period, the app tells you instead of making an empty file.
No. There is no account, no server, and no analytics. Everything is stored on the phone, and Erase everything in Settings removes it.
Yes. Enter the scheduled date and home counts down to it. Two weeks before, a prep list shows up, and you can already start writing questions to take to your pre-op appointment.
No. JointRoad is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.
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