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When can I drive again?

Recovery research is real — it's just scattered across thousands of studies written for specialists. Steady reads it, keeps what's actually measured, and lays it out plainly. Pick your procedure, surgery date and current pain, and see where you stand and when the milestones that matter actually come back — with the studies behind each one.

Your recovery curve

ACL reconstruction · post-op week 8

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Day one

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ACL reconstruction
12 Apr 2026
You're at week 8 — sitting inside the normal band. Driving is typically back by now; running is the next gate, around month 3–4.

milestones

Start against the milestones the literature can support.

From day one you see the usual protocol checkpoints for your surgery — off crutches, back to driving, running, return to sport — and roughly where you sit against them. A cited path, not a blank log.

Off crutches
gait normalised
~week 2–4
Driving
emergency-brake, off strong meds
~week 4–6
Running
~80% quad strength, not a date
month 3–4
Return to sport
strength + hop-test criteria
~month 9

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Thousands of studies, read for you — every week.

The calculator gives you today's read. The full tracker keeps reading the literature as your recovery moves: your pain against the normal band week by week, the milestones measured against your own data, and patterns as the days add up — every line linked to its study.

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week 8

This week

When things come back

You're week 8. Driving is usually back by now; running is the next gate, around month 3–4 — here's where you sit.
Driving · ~week 4–6
Likely there already.
Running · month 3–4
Building toward the strength gate.
Return to sport · ~month 9
Criteria-based, not the calendar.
Each timing links its study ↗

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Every week of your recovery

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  • Everything in the calculator, kept current
  • A week-by-week read — what's typical now, and what's next
  • Your pain charted against the normal band over time
  • Your milestones — driving, running, sport — checked off as you reach them
  • A 30-second daily check-in, with patterns as the days add up
  • Every read linked to the study behind it
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