I am two weeks post surgery and went to my first training yesterday, am I pushing it? I was careful that everyone knew to be sure to pull there punches to my midsection. I also did a couple falls but that did tended to be a little painful so stopped doing falls after that. Thoughts, should I wait a bit longer?

I do krav, and had the surgury almost a year ago. I am still very cautious of my port, but I grapple and roll around and spar without any problems so far. I really do worry that I will flip my port, though. but no problems so far

Thanks for the replys. I have recieved 1 reply in the intro. I have to lay off Krav. for > 1-year post ACL recon. last year. I am back to work but I miss it.

Layne.

Hay guys,

I have been banded for a while. prior to banding I did martial arts and after banding continued. I am still in it, sill no direct hit on the port. I am still waiting for the accident to happen. I have had people walk all over my stomach and take direct hits to the stomach on a regular basis. not direct hit yet on the port. if anyone has had the direct hit yet, I would love to here about it.

I have been doing several martial arts. I was banded on Nov 18th. I started working out again, mostly weights and oblique twists and stuff like that. I went to the new boxing gym by the house...one of my past students is teaching MMA there. I've been training with him for several years now.

Anyway, yesterday Dec 4th, i sparred for the first time since being banded. I wore the big muy thai abb pad and it went well. One of the guys thought I was wearing it so he could practice his knees. Good thing he was new and not very good with the knees!

I train in Limalama, Aikido, and still do some Shotokan. Mostly MMA now though. I haven't done any aikido yet. Still a little cautious. I have a seminar in January that I'm going to try and make. We'll see how it turns out.

Hey Snowman...ever hear of Limalama?

where's your port snowman?

Mine's on my upper left abdomen (some ppl are getting them on their chest?) and... it's caused me a bit of pain before.

I've always been fine for rolling, but watch the body shots. I've gotten "discomfort" from being hit on the port a couple of times. One time it hurt for days afterwards, and it was enough to kind of make me favor the spot defensively for a few weeks.

Other than that I would think everything would be fine. I wouldn't suggest any rubber guards or anything of the such : P. I waited 2 month before going back to any training at all, but felt fine rolling after that.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that posted here. I'm currently pre-op and have been thinking about going back into martial arts aikido, krav, bjj, etc afterwards but have been wary b/c of the port and everything. My doc said I should be okay, but I didn't really feel comfortable with the answer, probably fear related, but listening to y'all makes me feel better about this and the possible outcomes. I also promise that if I take a direct port hit to let everyone know how badly it hurt. :redface:

I use to do combative jui jitsu and sedakon many years ago but I couldn't see going back to that training 2 weeks after surgery. I didn't even turn big valves at work for 6 weeks. They say that you can go back to work pretty much immediately after but if you're in a high stress or job that requires more physical activity than an office job I would recommend waiting. I was told after the healing etc... that you could go back to all things normal no matter stress level.