The spine surgery recovery app that keeps your whole care team in the loop.
EasySpine is a free daily check-in for spine surgery recovery: pain in one tap, walking auto-filled from Apple Health, wound photos your care team can review, and milestones week by week. Works with or without a clinic.
EasySpine and SpineOS are made by a company founded by Chad Tuchek, MD.
Get EasySpine
EasySpine for iPhone is in early-access beta. Joining takes a couple of minutes — and the web portal works in any browser today.
Install TestFlight
TestFlight is Apple's free app for early-access apps. Install it on your iPhone first.
Request an invite
Email us and we'll send your EasySpine beta invite.
Install EasySpine and build your baseline
Answer a 5-minute baseline so your recovery trend starts on day one.
EasySpine and SpineOS are made by a company founded by Chad Tuchek, MD.
Android: email us and we'll let you know.
Free · Works without an account · Self-guided mode keeps your data on your phone.
A check-in you can finish in seconds.
Illustrative previews of the app.
One loop, two surfaces.
For patients
- Answer a 5-minute baseline. Seven plain-language questions build your personalized tracking plan.
- Check in once a day. Pain 0–10, walking auto-fills from Apple Health, wound status — done in seconds.
- See your trend. Daily check-ins become a recovery timeline — and if your clinic uses SpineOS, your care team sees it too.
For clinicians
- Measure. Cobb, SVA, and PI–PT–LL with guided landmarking.
- Document. Medical-necessity evidence packets and RTM reports.
- Monitor. Check-ins, wound photos, and an alert inbox.
SpineOS: the workspace behind the app.
The difference between SpineOS and EasySpine: EasySpine is what patients see; SpineOS is the clinician workspace it reports into — measurement, planning, documentation, and monitoring for the whole episode.
X-ray measurement & guided landmarking
Cobb, SVA, PI, PT, SS, LL, and PI–LL, computed live as you drop landmarks — with guided workflows and every value reviewed and confirmed by you.
Structured MRI/CT finding review
Pfirrmann, Modic, and stenosis grading in a structured review queue — every candidate finding is adjudicated by the clinician before it goes anywhere.
Prior-authorization evidence packets
Medicare contractor guidance names undocumented conservative care as the most common fusion denial reason — SpineOS assembles the dated record: conservative care, reviewed imaging, PROMs, and alignment, in one medical-necessity packet that supports your documentation.
RTM documentation
Remote therapeutic monitoring reports for CPT 98975–98981, with the 16-day rule tracked from real patient check-in data.
PROM collection without chasing patients
ODI, NDI, and 12 more instruments, answered on the patient's phone and interpreted with MCID-aware trends.
EasySpine is free for patients. SpineOS is sold to spine service lines as an annual platform subscription — ask what it costs for your practice.
- Decision support, not autonomous diagnosis
- No FDA clearance yet — 510(k) pathway being evaluated
- Row-Level Security + audited PHI workflows
- HIPAA readiness in progress
Guides for every week of recovery.
Plain-language answers to the questions patients and spine teams actually search for. Your own surgeon's instructions always override anything you read here.
For patients
For clinicians
Questions, answered plainly.
What should I track during spine surgery recovery?
Most care teams want a handful of signals: pain (0–10), how much you're walking, wound status, sleep, and any new symptoms. Tracking them daily turns scattered notes into a trend you can bring to follow-up visits. Your own surgeon's instructions always come first. Learn more →
How much should I walk after spinal fusion?
Most surgeons encourage walking early and often — short, frequent walks typically help recovery more than one long walk. Research in lumbar fusion patients has used a benchmark of roughly 3,500 steps a day, but the right amount for you is whatever your surgeon sets. EasySpine fills in your walking automatically from Apple Health so you never have to count. Learn more →
How do I know if my incision is healing normally?
Mild redness, swelling, and itching are common early in healing. Increasing redness or warmth, new drainage, wound edges opening, or a fever are reasons to call your care team promptly. Daily wound photos help your care team watch for signs of infection between visits. When in doubt, call — that's what they're there for. Learn more →
When can I drive after back surgery?
There's no universal date. Most surgeons look for three gates: you're off narcotic pain medication, you can move well enough to brake and check blind spots, and your surgeon has explicitly cleared you. Ask at a follow-up visit before you get behind the wheel. Learn more →
How should I sleep after spinal fusion?
Most people do best on their back with a pillow under the knees, or on their side with a pillow between the knees. The log-roll technique — moving shoulders and hips together — typically makes getting in and out of bed easier. Follow your surgeon's positioning instructions over any general advice. Learn more →
Is EasySpine free, and do I need my clinic to use it?
EasySpine is free, and no — you don't need your clinic to use it. Self-guided mode gives you full tracking with your data kept on your phone. If your surgeon's practice uses SpineOS, clinic-linked mode lets your care team see your check-ins, wound photos, and outcome scores. The iPhone app is in early-access beta; the web portal works today. Learn more →
Is my data private?
In self-guided mode, your tracking data stays on your device — it isn't sent to us at all. In clinic-linked mode, your data lives in your clinic's tenant-isolated workspace protected by Row-Level Security and audit trails, and wound photos are visible only to your care team. Learn more →
What does SpineOS do for clinicians?
SpineOS is the clinician workspace behind EasySpine: X-ray measurement with guided landmarking, structured MRI/CT finding review, prior-authorization evidence packets, RTM documentation reports, PROM collection, and recovery monitoring with an alert inbox. Learn more →
How does SpineOS help with prior authorization?
The most common reason fusion prior authorizations are denied is undocumented conservative care. SpineOS assembles the dated record — conservative-care history, clinician-reviewed imaging findings, outcome scores, and alignment measurements — into a medical-necessity evidence packet. It supports your documentation; it doesn't approve coverage or guarantee a decision. Learn more →
What are the RTM CPT codes?
Spine practices document remote therapeutic monitoring under CPT 98975, 98977, 98980, and 98981. The 16-day rule — at least sixteen days of patient data in a 30-day period — governs the monitoring codes. SpineOS generates the RTM documentation report from patient check-in data. Learn more →
Start your recovery baseline today.
Five minutes now gives you a trend for every follow-up visit later. Free, private, and yours — with or without a clinic.
EasySpine and SpineOS are made by a company founded by Chad Tuchek, MD.