Is it time?
Your Guide helps you explore your options, clarify your goals and prepare for a conversation with your surgeon.
Start your Fit Score See how your decision comes together- Your situation — answered
- Daily life — answered
- Pain source — answered
- Your imaging — answered
- Your goals — answered
- Recovery — answered
- Joint health89
- X-ray severity48
- Joint-problem match88
- Quality-of-life impact66
- Pain pattern70
- Treatment history85
A score is not a verdict: it states what your evidence supports, and names what is missing.
DECISION · YOUR NEXT STEP
Your Fit Score
Understand your fit. Explore your next step.
Your Fit Score brings your symptoms, daily life and treatment history into the conversation.
Start your Fit ScoreA starting point for discussion, not a diagnosis or a decision to have surgery.
A LOOK INSIDE DECISION
Clear Choices. A Decision That Fits You.
Your Guide helps organize the details. Your care team sets your medical plan.
01Is Surgery Right for Me?
Start with the life you want to live.Consider how joint pain affects your everyday life, what you have already tried and which options remain.
Symptoms · daily life · nonsurgical care · timing
Full guide — paid Voyage membership
02Realistic Expectations
Know what the commitment means.Talk about the improvement you hope for, the support you will need and the time recovery may take. A replaced joint may still feel different.
Your goals · recovery commitment · long-term outlook
Full guide — paid Voyage membership
03Risks & Your Health
Make the discussion personal.Your health, medicines and previous operations matter. Ask your surgeon how they affect your options and your individual risks.
Health history · previous surgery · benefits & risks
Full guide — paid Voyage membership
04Choosing Your Surgeon
Find experience and a conversation you trust.Ask about experience with your procedure, outcomes, follow-up and who will help when questions arise.
Relevant experience · communication · second opinions
Full guide — paid Voyage membershipTHE SHORT VERSION · 30 SECONDS
One assessment.
Your next conversation.
Understand how the Fit result connects Voyage and Your Joint Options.
Silent visual explainer · captions included
Read the explanation
- Start with your symptoms and goals.
- Your Fit result helps guide the next conversation.
- Explore nonsurgical care, surgical evaluation, or further review.
- Urgent symptoms need prompt care. Your clinician confirms treatment suitability.
Explore your options.
Bring your priorities to the conversation, including care without surgery and a second opinion.
Explore nonsurgical care on Your Joint Options ↗Your Joint Options is our companion site about treatment without surgery. Nothing from your Voyage record is sent to it, and its pages cite their own sources.
Explore a written opinion ↗Find a surgeon near you.
Enter a surgeon name, practice, city, state, or ZIP.
Illustrative footage. You’ll meet your own Guide.
A PERSON IN YOUR CORNER
Lingering Questions
or Thoughts?
It’s not uncommon for questions to pop up as you weigh your options.
We gotcha!Your Guide will bring your questions to the surgeon team and get the answers back to you, so you know what comes next.
Connect with your GuidePersonal Guide support is part of paid Voyage membership.
THE FULL DECISION EXPERIENCE
Your GuideYour VoyageYour Details.
These are the highlights. Paid Voyage members receive the detailed decision guides alongside their personal record and Guide support.
View member accessMedical instructions and clearance come from your surgical and anesthesia team.