 Hello, I am Dr. Murli Krishna, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. The pain of the controlled fracture of the bone is very less and since the no bone cutting is involved and since we go only through the intercostal space, there is not much pain. Even postoperatively, some patients will bounce back very fast, say around 4 to 5 days after surgery. They will be back to normal. They are put on very minimal analgesics and to another 6 to 7 days, they will be normal as anything before surgery.