Built by a surgeon who got tired of seeing patients wait without preparing.
Every year, over 200,000 people in England are listed for hip or knee replacement surgery. Most of them wait 6 to 12 months - some much longer. During that time, pain limits their activity. They lose muscle. They gain weight. They worry about surgery. By the time their date arrives, they're often in worse shape than when they were first listed.
That's a huge amount of wasted time. And it doesn't have to be that way.
The evidence on prehabilitation - preparing your body and mind before surgery - is clear and growing. Patients who engage in structured exercise, maintain a healthy weight, and go into surgery with confidence and realistic expectations have:
The idea behind Joint Journey is simple: use the waiting time to prepare. Turn months of frustration into months of progress. Give people a structured, evidence-based programme they can follow at home, at their own pace.
Joint Journey was created by Mr Benjamin Zucker, an orthopaedic surgeon.
Ben is training in the prestigious Bristol orthopaedic rotation. He is undertaking a doctorate in risk management and implant selection in total hip replacement, and is a graduate of both the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.
In his clinical work, Ben sees first-hand the difference that preparation makes. The patients who arrive for surgery having done their exercises, managed their weight, and understood what to expect consistently do better than those who haven't. The problem is that most patients don't have access to structured prehabilitation - the NHS doesn't routinely provide it, and private options are expensive.
Joint Journey exists to fix that. A digitally delivered, evidence-based prehabilitation programme that anyone waiting for joint replacement surgery can use.
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Always follow the specific advice of your healthcare team. If anything in Joint Journey conflicts with what your surgeon or physio has told you, follow their advice - they know your individual circumstances.
The content in Joint Journey has been developed with reference to guidelines from NICE, the NHS, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the British Dietetic Association, and published clinical research on prehabilitation for joint replacement.
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