Rehabilitation after cervical and lumbar spine surgery

Abstract

Overall, the indications for operating on spinal disorders are increasing as reflected by the total number of spine surgeries. Spine surgery usually involves decompression and/or fusion of one or more spine levels (1, 2, 3). However, regardless of the pathology and surgical technique used, there is a variable percentage of patients who remain symptomatic and with functional disability (2, 4, 5).

Keywords

• postoperative rehabilitation
• physical therapy
• lumbar spine surgery
• cervical spine surgery
• post-surgery
• pain management
• physiotherapy