Driving, lifting, stairs and exercise
The usual advice is more arbitrary than it sounds.
The common advice is no driving for about two weeks, no lifting more than the baby for a few weeks, and no strenuous exercise for six. Much of this is convention rather than evidence.
Sensible tests: you can drive when you can perform an emergency stop without hesitating because of pain, and when you are no longer taking opioids. You can increase activity when doing so does not cause increasing pain the next day.
Stairs are fine. Walking is encouraged from the first day.
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