After back surgery you cannot and should not do any strenuous activity such as aerobic exercise, heavy lifting, weight lifting, jogging or bicycle riding.
Also you cannot and should not drive for 2 to 4 weeks after the back surgery and avoid riding in a car for longer than 30 minutes at a time for 2 to 4 weeks after the back surgery.
You can strengthen your back after back surgery by doing wall squats.
Stand with your back leaning against wall.
Walk feet 12 inches in front of body.
Keep abdominal muscles tight while slowly bending both knees to 45°.
Hold 5 seconds.
Slowly return to upright position.
Repeat 10 times.
The exercise that is best after back surgery are walking, straight leg raises, wall squats and heel slides.
A spinal fusion is worth it if you have instability of the spine, deformities and fractures.
Depending on the condition the surgery is treating, spinal fusion has a 70 to 90% success rate.
Recovery time for spinal fusion surgery varies significantly from patient to patient, but the average spans between three and six months before the patient is back to their daily routine; working, traveling, and even exercising with more freedom and less pain than they could before the surgery.
Spinal fusion surgery is painful somewhat during the recovery and healing process.
However the spinal fusion surgery itself should not be painful as you'll be asleep during the procedure but as you wake up and begin recovering you may have some back pain that will go away within a few days to a week or so.
You can walk after spinal fusion surgery and walking is a good activity you can and should do for at least the first 6 weeks after the spinal fusion surgery.
Slowly start out walking and then increase your walking to around 30 minutes twice a day after that.
You can sleep on your back after spinal fusion surgery.
Doctors actually recommend that you sleep on your side or back after spinal fusion surgery to allow you to heal better.
Sleeping on your belly is not recommended until you have healed.
A spinal fusion is spinal surgery which entails connecting two or more bones in any part of your spine.
Connecting the bones prevents any movement between them and preventing movement of the bones helps prevent pain.
During spinal fusion surgery the surgeon will place bone or bone like material in the space between your two spinal bones.
A level 2 spinal fusion is a spinal fusion that joints 3 vertebrae together.
The two vertebrae need to be fused to stop motion at one segment and an L4-L5 fusion is a one level spinal fusion.
Spinal Fusion Surgery costs between $14,000.00 to $30,000.00 depending on the hospital or surgeon who does the Spinal Fusion Surgery.
Health insurance will usually pay at least part of the cost of Spinal Fusion Surgery if the Spinal Fusion Surgery is deemed medically necessary.
So if you're in very severe pain and had your spine messed up and need the Spinal Fusion Surgery then your health insurance might pay all the cost or at least a portion of the cost of the Spinal Fusion Surgery.
If not though then you would need to pay the cost of the Spinal Fusion Surgery out of pocket.
Recovery time for spinal fusion surgery patients is around 4 to 6 weeks for partial recovery which means that you can return to a job such as an office job or other sedentary activities or Jobs.
But for full recovery it can take 3 to 6 months before you can return to more heavy work and less sedentary activities.
Spinal Fusion Surgery recovery requires you to take it easy for at least the first 6 weeks and then slowly you can get back to your normal activities.
Spinal Fusion Surgery is a pretty safe surgery as far as surgery procedures go.
Most Spinal Fusion surgeries are very successful and most people who do have Spinal Fusion have no complications afterwards.
But just like any other surgeries the Spinal Fusion Surgery can lead to complications in some people.
Some complications that come along with Spinal Fusion Surgery but are rare are the possibility of Injuries to blood vessels or nerves in and around the spine.
And there can sometimes be pain around the site where the bone graft was taken.
But the complications that happen sometimes with Spinal Fusion Surgery are rare and most people come out of Spinal Fusion Surgery and recover just fine.