Recovery, day by day.

Your surgeon gave you 0 minutes. 0 months to recover.

Stride is the recovery companion for Achilles tendon rupture. Personalized to your surgery date, your stage, and your goals — and built to keep showing up on the days the clinic doesn't.

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Daily, automatic
Tendon strength · Week 6
23 others with you
The information gap

Surgery is the easy part. The next 240 days are the hard part — and almost nobody walks them with you.

What you get from the clinic
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The average post-op surgeon visit. A handful of generic instructions, a PDF, a follow-up scheduled in six weeks. Then the door closes.

What recovery actually takes
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The window your tendon needs to rebuild. Boot transitions, weight-bearing milestones, exercises that change every two weeks, and the daily question you can't text your surgeon at 11 p.m.

Stride fills the gap. Every day, on its own.
Week 1Boot. Bed. Couch.
Week 6Boot transition.
Week 18Single-leg work.
Week 32Return to running.
Eight months. Day by day.
Week 1. The boot is on. The clinic is gone. Week 6. Boot off, indoor walking. Week 18. Single-leg work begins. Week 32. The return to running.
Stride opens with the day's safe range, the four exercises that match this stage, and a line from your cohort. No app to open. The ring crosses 35%. Stride knows it's transition day and walks you through what's safe — before you have to ask. Strength at 65%. Today's plan adds a single-leg progression. Stride times each set, listens for setbacks. Strength at 92%. Pace, mileage, and re-injury risk all calibrated. The companion goes from daily to weekly.
How it works

A briefing arrives every morning. No app to open. No question to ask.

01 · Onboard

Tell us your surgery date and stage.

Ninety seconds. Stride builds your personal recovery timeline around the calendar — surgical or conservative, partial weight-bearing or full, athlete or weekend runner.

02 · Wake up

The day's briefing is waiting.

What's happening inside your tendon today. What's safe and what isn't. The exercises that match your stage. A note from people in the same week of recovery.

03 · Get nudged

Stride speaks first.

No chatbot to interrogate. When something matters — a boot transition, a milestone test, a swelling change — Stride brings it up. You answer when you want.

Why people stay

Built for the 240 days the clinic isn't there.

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Calibrated to your week, not "average recovery."

Stride knows what Week 3 looks like and what Week 18 looks like — and adjusts every exercise, every cue, every milestone to where you actually are.

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Know what's safe. Today, and every day.

Plain-language updates on what your tendon can take. The exercises that help. The ones that set you back. The signs that should make you call.

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Walk it with people who get it.

A small cohort of people whose surgery date is within a few days of yours. The questions you don't want to ask your surgeon, somebody else already asked.

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Proactive, not reactive.

Stride brings up boot transitions, weight-bearing changes, and progression tests before you have to remember them. No chatbot to interrogate.

A week of recovery
0 hours of recovery happen between PT visits.

A typical PT visit is one hour. Recovery has 168 of them in a week. Stride is the other 167 — the practice that doesn't have a session number.

1 hr · PT 167 hrs · you, alone
A quieter problem

More than half of people show signs of depression in the year after Achilles surgery.

It isn't talked about much. You go from running, lifting, walking your kid to school — to a boot, a couch, and a calendar that suddenly looks empty. Stride won't fix that on its own. But seeing the next small step every morning, and knowing other people are walking the same week, helps more than people expect.

Source: Davison et al., Foot & Ankle International (2021).
Frequently asked

Questions about Stride.

If something here isn't covered, early-access members get a direct line — first message is to a human.

What is Stride, in one sentence?
A daily recovery companion for people recovering from an Achilles tendon rupture. It tells you what's happening inside your tendon, what's safe to do today, and walks the eight months alongside you.
How is this different from the PDF my surgeon gave me?
A PDF is a snapshot of week zero. Stride is calibrated to your surgery date and changes every week with your stage — the exercises, the cues, the milestones. It also nudges you when something matters, instead of waiting for you to remember to look.
Who is it for?
People recovering from an Achilles tendon rupture — surgical or non-surgical, athlete or not. The first cohort is focused on adults under 60 doing structured rehab. We're expanding from there.
Is this medical advice?
No. Stride is a recovery companion, not a replacement for your surgeon or physical therapist. It's designed to make their plan easier to follow, not to override it.
Is my data safe?
We treat your health data with the same care a clinic does — encrypted in transit and at rest, never sold, never used for advertising. You can export everything or delete your account at any time.
When does it launch?
Closed beta is rolling out to early-access members through the rest of this year. Public launch is on the way. Joining the list is how you skip the line.
Can I cancel?
Anytime, from inside the app. You keep your recovery log even after you stop using Stride.

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