Why Your Experience Matters

Every surgery is about more than just fixing a joint — it’s about helping you get back to living with less pain, better movement, and an improved quality of life.

By listening to patients and tracking recovery, we can learn and share what works best, and continue improving care for everyone in our community.

How We Follow Your Progress

To understand how you’re doing, we invite you to fill in short questionnaires at different points in your journey:

• Before your surgery

• One year afterwards

• Every five years following surgery

These surveys are quick, easy, and based on international standards. Most importantly, they focus on how you feel — because your experience matters most.

Helping Shape Better Care

When you take part, you’re not only keeping track of your own progress, but also helping us improve orthopaedic care for future patients. Your feedback gives us valuable insights that guide new techniques, better treatments, and even new technologies.

Together, we’re making surgery outcomes better — one patient at a time.

Our Research & Publications

Tauranga Orthopaedic Research is committed to advancing orthopaedic knowledge through robust data collection and analysis, providing valuable insights into patient-reported outcomes, surgical effectiveness, and long-term trends in joint replacement across Tauranga and Whakatāne.

Our research is strengthened by the expertise of some of the most experienced orthopaedic surgeons in New Zealand, whose extensive clinical knowledge guides and informs our studies. This unique combination of patient-centred data and surgical expertise ensures our research remains relevant, practical, and impactful.

This section provides access to our research papers and resources for clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals.