Prior to undergoing surgery, it is useful to consider the postoperative recovery period. This helps to plan your postoperative recuperation.

It is not possible to exactly predict any one patient's exact recovery time, but the information contained in the following pages should help by giving rough guides to when it should be safe to start various activities and what to look out for during the early days after discharge from hospital.

Remember some people will recover at slightly faster rates than those described, whilst others will find they take a little longer to achieve these goals.