App Store Prepare on a timeline
Anchor a countdown to the surgery date and turn preparation tasks into reminders that arrive when they matter.
Health & wellness · Available on the App Store
Mend
A private, day-by-day companion for hip-replacement preparation and recovery.
Mend turns care-team instructions into timely checklists, daily check-ins, configurable exercises, medication reminders, milestones, and a shareable surgeon report.
- Category
- Health & wellness
- Status
- Available on the App Store
- Platforms
- iPhone
- Built with
- SwiftUI · SwiftData · StoreKit 2
The product problem
Why Mend exists.
Recovery information arrives in many forms and at exactly the moment people have the least spare attention. Mend organizes general patient education and the user’s own care instructions into one calm timeline before and after surgery.
What the product does
The useful parts, stated plainly.
These capabilities are grounded in the project’s README, metadata, source structure, and checked-in product documentation.
Check in in 30 seconds
Log pain, swelling, mood, walking aid, notes, and an optional incision photo as a simple daily habit.
See milestones in context
Follow the journey from preparation through walking-aid changes and user-recorded recovery milestones.
Follow the prescribed plan
Configure exercise sets, repetitions, sessions, and reminder times to match what a physical therapist prescribed.
Track medication gently
Use local reminders and a taper-aware log without turning adherence into a score.
Bring a readable report
Generate a PDF containing trends, exercise completion, milestones, medication history, and notes for a follow-up visit.
Designed for
People with a specific job to do.
- People preparing for total hip replacement
- People recording post-operative progress
- Caregivers helping organize a recovery
- Follow-up conversations with surgeons and physical therapists
Product choices
What makes it distinctly Orion.
- No account, cloud service, analytics, or third-party tracking is required.
- Health information is stored locally on the iPhone.
- Defaults are editable and repeatedly defer to the user’s own care team.
Product gallery
The real interface, inside the right frame.
Every image below is a clean application capture from the product repository. Orion supplies the unbranded hardware frame.
Mend research
The method and the limitation belong together.
Public-safe summaries from the project’s substantive research and product documentation.
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Source review · July 2026
Patient education without pretending to be a clinician
- Question
- How can a recovery organizer make general guidance useful while preserving the authority of an individual care plan?
- Method
- The content model separates bundled education, editable defaults, user-entered instructions, local reminders, and explicit red-flag awareness. Public orthopedic guidance was used as context, not as personalized treatment.
- Key finding
- The safest useful product is a timeline and logbook: show what the care team already asked the person to do, make progress visible, and keep escalation language direct.
- Limitation
- Recovery varies by person, surgical approach, health history, and clinician protocol. No static application can determine what is normal for an individual.
- Product implication
- Every default remains editable, the product avoids diagnosis, and urgent concerns are directed to the user’s surgeon or emergency services.
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