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How quickly can I expect to recover from surgery? |
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This depends on what you get done. Decompression surgery such as laminectomy is a shorter procedure with shorter recovery. Patients usually take a few weeks to recover from a laminectomy procedure. This means that you will be up and walking the day after surgery but will feel sore and not walk very well. Every day you will feel better and by the end of couple of weeks you will feel almost back to yourself and be walking fairly well. A fusion is a more extensive procedure and a patient may require a month or two to recover. The recovery time also depends on the number of levels you have surgery. Each additional level laminectomy or fusion adds time in the operating room and adds to the number of days you many need to recover. If you are also older and have many medical problems require longer recovery. The recovery also does not mean being in the hospital the whole time or being forced to rest in bed the whole time. Patients are expected to move around, ambulate and become more and more pain free and normal over the course of the recovery time.
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