Return to Exercise After Surgery: Recognising and Managing Problems

Written for someone who has had an operation and is trying to tell whether what they are feeling after training is ordinary. Why walking early helps, what going back too soon actually costs, the stages of a graded return and how a stage is passed rather than guessed at, the first two weeks, lifting and straining, how the limit differs between operations, soreness and swelling after activity, the warning signs and what each one means, why contact sport and swimming return last, and what happens when training has caused a problem.