In Colorado, especially in Denver, Lasik eye surgery is being preformed more than ever before. With an increasing number of people getting the surgery done, the big question in Colorado is, “how long until I can ski after I have Lasik eye surgery?”
When you have Lasik eye surgery, you can’t go out and do physical activities for at least three weeks. This includes basketball, running, biking, swimming, and skiing, too. This is mostly because of the lack of vision and delicate pieces of the eye still healing. After the three weeks, you should make sure you can see well and have little to no soreness or tenderness to the eye. This will ensure you are ready to put your eye through a little bit of stress.
Although your eye will be able to handle some stress, damage from the wind and sun are always at risk when going out to ski in Denver. Lasik eye surgery makes the eye sensitive, so the eye is not only going to be irritated with wind blowing on it, it may also get dried out, too. Along with the wind, the sun beaming on your face, along with the sun beaming off the snow into your face, can all be caught by the eye, leading you to possibly become blind from sun rays!
To prevent most eye risks, make sure you wear eye goggles. Although goggles will not prevent all risk, because you can still fall and damage the eye, most naturally cause damage will be prevented. Speaking of falling, you should not take big risks with your Denver Lasik eye surgery on the slopes. If anything, go out there for a light run on a small hill, or even on the bunny hill. This will prevent any risk cause by possibly falling, and also most risk by those crazy snowboarders and skiers who fly at 90 mph down the hillside.
Now that you know how long to wait before skiing, what risks you will still be faced against, and how to prevent those risks in the best possible way, with goggles and taking runs on the bunny hill, you should be able to be back on the hill in only a short couple of weeks.
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