How long after nasal fracture surgery can I do physical activity?

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I study Drama, which involves 6 hours a day, 5 times a week of physical activity including contemporary dance, acrobatics, jumping, and partner lifts, among other things. A week ago I got hit, and broke my nose, and had emergency surgery. Right now, I'm on a 10 day bed rest, with a cast on it, but I'm not sure if I should go back this semester to class, for fear of something happening to it. What do you think?

William Numa, MD, FACS · Answer

After surgical repair of a nasal bone fracture patients usually return at one week for a post-operative follow-up and to have the cast remove. Once the cast is removed patients can resume most normal physical activity with few exceptions and about two weeks after surgery there are no limitations. Of course, however, patients should limit exposure to activities that could lead to injury such as contact sports.Feel free to call your surgeon with any and all post-operative questions and concerns.

Julian Rowe-Jones, MBBS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (ORL) · Answer

If you had an MUA, which is having the bones pushed back into alignment I think you can resume normal physical activity after 24 hours. If your nose throbs then you should only undertake exercise that is not strenuous until you find the throbbing no longer occurs.  The important thing is to avoid physical activity that risks contact with the nose for 6 weeks as it takes this long for the bones to knit together again.  If you had septal surgery / septoplasty you should avoid strenuous activity for two weeks and contact sport for 6 weeks.

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