Dr. Cummings explains
“If you have Lasik done, where a flap is created, then you can go back to things like golf, tennis, and running – those sorts of things within a day or two. If you want to do swimming you’d wait for a couple of weeks. Probably the best thing to do for contact sports – like karate or boxing or rugby, is perhaps to wait for 6 weeks. If you do Lasek or PRK which is on the surface, then there is nothing that you can’t do within a week. The moment the surface has healed you can go back to doing anything and if you do Smile – again because you don’t have the little cap – within a week you can do anything. You can go back to doing what you want to do.”