About Steady

what this site is, and how the data is sourced

What Steady is

Steady is a post-surgery recovery tracker. It places your recent pain against published recovery data for your procedure and week, and links every figure to the study it came from. It also publishes free week-by-week recovery timelines for common orthopaedic and spine surgeries, and a free recovery calculator that places you on the curve from three inputs.

The paid daily tracker compares your average pain over the past week with the published pain band for your current week. It does not yet chart your full history against the curve, and it does not compare you with other users.

How the data is sourced

Every figure on the site is read from a published, peer-reviewed study or rehab protocol, and links to it. Where a study prints no range, or a week falls between two measured weeks, we estimate it and label it as our estimate. Where the literature is silent, we leave a gap. The full dataset — every pain point and milestone, each traced to its study and labelled with how it was sourced — is public on the recovery data index and free to quote with a link back. Steady reflects published measurements; it is not a medical device and gives no medical advice.

Who runs it

Steady is a small, independent project run by one person, based in Paris, France. There is no support queue and no sales team — email hello@growsteady.me and you reach the person who builds it. See also support, privacy and terms.