[Noah930]

I don't know if your 2-day downtime expectation is realistic. I'd think you'd be mostly on the couch for about 1-2 weeks. And no significant strenuous activity for about 6 weeks.

During residency I actually got to perform this surgery on a roommate. It just worked out that his surgeon was one of my attendings, and I was on that service at that time. It took about 2-3 months before my roommate was back to playing soccer (Irishman living in Brighton--go figure), and he said about 8 months before he was entirely painfree. Just one anecdote, but I think his experience was fairly typical.