Hello barbell medicine folks. I am getting a microdisectomy in a few weeks and was wondering how long after surgery it would be okay to lift weights again. Initial plan was to wait 8 weeks, but I thought you would be good people to ask.
Hi,
Unfortunately we are generally not comfortable giving people specific post-op guidelines here. I would recommend discussing with your surgeon.
Thanks. All he told me was not to lift anything over 25 pounds for 4 weeks and nothing over 50 pounds for 8 weeks.
Yeah, these are made up recommendations not based in evidence … but we also don’t have direct evidence looking at this either, so this is what most surgeons do in post-op situations.
That’s what I thought. So if this were you getting back surgery, how long do you think you would wait?