How do I keep working sustainably after coming back from an injury?

You did something a lot of people are too proud or too scared to do. You came back on your own terms, with the accommodations and pacing that let you last. That is not settling. That is wisdom. You chose a career you can sustain over one that would break you again. The pressure now will be to quietly drop the very things keeping you whole, to prove you do not need them anymore. Resist that. The accommodations are not training wheels to shed; they are the reason you are still standing. Pacing yourself is not doing less. It is doing enough for a long time instead of too much for a short one. Protect your limits like they are part of the job, because they are. When someone pushes or you feel the old urge to overdo it, remember why you set the pace you did. You are not the person who got injured, and you are not pretending the injury never happened. You are the one who learned from it and built a way to keep going. That is the stronger move.