I usually ask patients to spend at least a week at home after the surgery, taking it easy, not really moving around the house too much, not going out too much. After about a week to ten days they might want to go out, visit some friends, go shopping, but you wouldn’t be carrying heavy bags. Even at two to three weeks you might find heavy lifting a little uncomfortable. I enforce a strictly no sport for a full six weeks, and even at that time you gently build up your activity: no stomach crunches straightaway, we slowly build up to the heavy core strengthening exercises. And it’s a full three months before you can return to all normal activities.
