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Plan the road back

Recovery Timeline Builder

Choose your procedure and, if you have one, your surgery date. You get a phase-by-phase map of a typical recovery, on your own calendar, built from published patient education. It exists so the journey has a shape, not so you can race it.

Which procedure?

Generic categories; your operation may combine several.

With a date, the phases land on your calendar. Without one, they show as weeks.

Choose a procedure above to see its typical phases. Add your surgery date and the map lands on your own calendar.

Sources

  1. Arthroscopy (including recovery expectations) American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (OrthoInfo), 2024
  2. Arthroscopy: recovery NHS, 2023
  3. ACL injury: surgical treatment and rehabilitation AAOS OrthoInfo, 2024
  4. Rotator cuff tears: surgical treatment options AAOS OrthoInfo, 2024

Last reviewed: 2026-07-16

Keep going

  • New to keyhole surgery? Walk the five steps in What is arthroscopy?
  • Turn timeline doubts into consultation questions with the Question Builder.
  • Curious about the implants and instruments behind these procedures? The technology side lives at medtech.mu.

Why ranges, and why your surgeon wins

Two people can have the same operation on paper and different operations in reality: what the surgeon finds inside, the quality of the tissue, and what could be repaired versus trimmed all change the plan. That is why honest patient education gives ranges, and why the protocol sheet your surgical team hands you beats any website, including this one.

What a typical map is genuinely good for: planning leave from work, booking physiotherapy before the operation rather than after, setting family expectations, and knowing which milestone conversation to have at each follow-up.

Written against AAOS OrthoInfo procedure education and NHS arthroscopy recovery guidance. Last reviewed 2026-07-16.