A pain specialist translating clinical experience into practical travel planning.
Ticked Bucket List was created by Dr Timothy Murithi Mwiti, a pain specialist and anaesthesiologist, to help travellers with pain, fatigue, and flare-prone conditions make clearer pre-trip decisions.
Clinician-founded planning support. Not medical advice, medical clearance, diagnosis, prescribing, or emergency care.
Travel is not just logistics when your body has limits.
For pain and fatigue, the risk is often hidden load: sitting, queues, walking, sleep disruption, bags, medication timing, family pressure, and recovery time.
Capacity changes
Ordinary travel tasks can cost more when pain, fatigue, or sensory load is already high.
Load stacks
Flights, transfers, walking, queues, and poor sleep can accumulate before the trip has properly started.
Plans need exits
A useful plan shows what to protect, what to simplify, and what to cut first if symptoms rise.
Clinical credibility only matters if it changes the plan.
This page is not a long biography. It explains why TBL plans trips around body-load decisions, not generic travel optimism.
Plan around load, function, flare risk, and recovery — not just destination logistics.
Treat sitting time, transfers, sleep disruption, motion, and medication access as real planning variables.
Keep the tools structured, explainable, and usable when the traveller has low energy.
Support trip planning decisions without replacing the traveller’s own clinician or urgent care.
A simple planning spine for one real trip.
Show the decision first. Explain the detail only when needed.
Trip Load Scan
Spot the parts most likely to overload the trip.
Green / Amber / Red signal
See whether the trip looks workable, pressured, or overloaded.
Trip Snapshot
Keep the important decisions visible on travel day.
Red-to-Amber planning
Change the heaviest parts before they become the problem.
Recovery Runway
Protect the return and after-travel recovery window.
The credibility is there to make the planning safer, clearer, and more usable.
Dr Mwiti’s work spans pain medicine, anaesthesia, clinical education, and aeromedical experience. TBL narrows that lens into one practical question: how can this trip ask less from the traveller’s body?
- Pain specialist and anaesthesiologist
- Former flight physician
- Active clinical pain practice
- Clinical educator and pain advocate
- International pain-science engagement
Professional profile, kept out of the way.
Use these links when you want to verify the founder’s clinical, education, research, and pain-science background.
Clinical registration and practice
Pain leadership and education
Research and publications
Public pain-science contribution
Use the level of support this trip actually needs.
Start self-guided when the trip is flexible. Use Advisory when the trip is expensive, close, fragile, complex, or hard to get wrong.
Trip Fit Check & Starter Kit
For one real trip when you want a reusable planning structure without specialist review.
- Trip Fit signal
- Trip Snapshot
- Packing, comfort, flare, and recovery guidance
- Reusable structure for future trips
Trip Fit Check + Pain Specialist Advisory
For trips that need specialist review because the cost of getting it wrong is higher.
- Includes Starter Kit structure
- Pain-specialist written review
- Prioritized changes and backup planning
- One text-based follow-up
Planning support, not medical care.
TBL sits where body-load planning and travel decisions overlap. It does not replace medical assessment or treatment.
TBL can help with
- Stress-testing a real trip
- Spotting hidden travel load
- Prioritizing what to protect or simplify
- Planning for flare moments and recovery
TBL does not provide
- Emergency care
- Diagnosis or prescribing
- Medication changes
- Medical clearance to travel
If symptoms are new, severe, rapidly worsening, or medically concerning, seek urgent or emergency care through appropriate local services.
Plan one real trip around your body.
Compare the support options, then choose the lowest level that still protects the trip.
Planning support only. Not medical advice, clearance, or emergency care.