Injury Recovery Tracker Spreadsheet | Daily Pain and Training Load Log for Excel and Google Sheets | Gates, Not Dates

Rest is not the plan. Load is.

The instinct is to stop until it stops hurting, then go back to what you were doing. That is why the same thing comes back in the same month the following year. You did not come back too soon. You came back with no record — and with no record, the week before the flare is gone. Nobody remembers it. That is the whole problem.

So this file keeps it. Two numbers a night, ten seconds, and eighteen weeks later you can see the shape of your own recovery instead of guessing at it.

WHAT THE FILE FINDS — from the shipped sample profile (Priya Raghunathan is written sample data, not a customer)
· 131 days logged, 111 sessions, 18.7 weeks since onset. One row per day.
· Pain settled by the next morning after 85 sessions and did not after 46 — 65% across the record, 89% across the last 28 days.
· Three setbacks. Before the worst, weekly load went from 1,075 to 1,960 in seven days, a jump of 82%, while morning pain had already failed to settle twice in the three days before. Both halves of the rule broken in one week: in the file, not in memory.
· 5 of 10 return-to-run criteria are met, each with its source and date beside it.

WHAT'S INSIDE — 15 connected tabs
· Start Here — three steps, the tab map, and the red-flag card, above all else.
· Your Profile — sport, training history, weekly volume before this, clinician, cover.
· Injury Log — site, side, onset, mechanism, free text for what you were told.
· Daily Monitor — the engine: session, pain during, pain next morning, sleep, load. You pick which published pain model you work to; each is labelled and cited.
· The Next-Morning Rule — did it settle by morning, is the weekly trend flat or rising.
· Training Load — RPE by duration, weekly totals, ramp rate, load ratio and its critique.
· Rehab Programme — sets, reps, load, tempo across four blocks, each gated.
· Return-to-Run Gates — every criterion with its source, date, and how validated.
· Return-to-Sport Ladder — steps 24 hours apart, judged on the morning after.
· Energy Availability — screening prompts and a referral route. No target, no score.
· Sleep & Recovery — hours and quality, against next-morning pain.
· Appointments & Costs — visits, copays, visits used against your cap, mileage.
· Setback Log — every flare, with the seven days before it rebuilt for you.
· Dashboard — days since onset, phase, gates met, 7-day and 28-day load.
· Reference + Red Flags — every figure with its body, date and URL, plus escalation.

WHO THIS IS FOR
Runners, lifters and team-sport athletes in the middle of something that has lasted longer than they expected. People doing physical therapy who want to arrive at the next appointment with data rather than an impression. Anyone on their second round of the same problem.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
A printable log gives you boxes to tick. This has a formula engine and an argument. It records both pain numbers, not one, because the number that carries information is tomorrow morning's. It keeps both clauses of the 24-hour rule, including the week-to-week clause almost every tool drops. It computes the load ratio every competitor sells as science, then prints the mathematical critique and the null randomised trial next to it and refuses to emit a verdict. And every gate reports criteria met or not met, with sources.

This file does not clear anyone to do anything. It has no cell that can. Clearance belongs to the person who examined you, and the point of the gates tab is to hand that conversation numbers.

WHAT YOU GET
· Injury-Recovery-Command-Center.xlsx, plus the same workbook in Light, Dark and Editorial
· Quick-Start-Guide.pdf — three steps, tab by tab, and where every outside number came from
· ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE.pdf — one click opens your own copy in Google Sheets
· README - Start Here.txt and LICENSE.txt

HOW IT ARRIVES — instant download, four colour themes, one file that opens in Microsoft Excel and in Google Sheets. No add-ons, no subscription, nothing that reaches the internet. Lifetime updates.

STEP ONE IS TWO NUMBERS
Tonight, before bed: pain during whatever you did today. Tomorrow, pain on the first few steps out of bed. Ten seconds. The profile and the injury row can wait.

HONEST ENGINEERING
4,182 formulas · recalculated clean · 779/779 independent math checks · every screen in this listing is the real file. The sample data types over in one pass when you are ready for your own.

PLEASE READ
This is a record-keeping tool. It is not medical advice, not physical therapy, not a diagnosis and not a medical device. It does not name what is wrong with you, it does not tell you when you can run again, and it never clears you to return to training, running or sport. Those are decisions for a clinician who has examined you. The load ratio it prints is descriptive only and is not a validated injury-risk indicator. Unverifiable figures ship blank for you to set. And the first tab carries the red-flag list: night pain, pain at rest, pinpoint bone tenderness, inability to bear weight, pain worsening despite less load, calf pain with swelling, or any new symptom after a head impact. Stop and see a clinician.

WATCH THE FULL WALKTHROUGH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/iEJeaJLNQN0

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