Cataract Boxers

I recently saw on an ophthalmology forum that a 25-year-old boxer had a cataract.

Cataracts can easily form at younger ages in cases of trauma to the eye. In a boxer in the third decade of life, it’s a virtual certainty the cataract was formed from blows to the eye.

Apparently, he is curious when he can get back to boxing. The answer, when someone has had cataract surgery and is asking about the timeline to return to activities prone to injuring the eye, is never. The incisions never “fully heal” to the point that the post-operative eye can be treated like an unoperated eye.

Never.