I’ll have to get a band ligation in the near future for piles. How long post-op should I wait before returning to lifting? The guidance from the doc has been fairly boilerplate and overcautious: weeks, not days, of avoiding anything heavier than X pounds, etc.
There aren’t established guidelines on this, and any sort of post-operative restriction is going to be more or less made-up based on the comfort/experience of the surgeon, and factors specific to the patient.
I don’t think you need to spend weeks without touching some arbitrarily low weight (often something like 10-20 lbs), but I’m not able to give you more specific guidance either. It’s going to be a matter of starting low, and going slow - like a rehab-type approach.
Thanks. Does the rehab-type approach apply to all lifts, or just certain ones?
I’d use it for everything at first, then probably transition the upper body work back towards normal, followed by the rest.