What can i expect in a cervical spine surgery?

Depends: This depends on a variety of factors including your age and health as well as other medical issues and habits such as being a smoker. It also depends on the specific reason for the surgery and what rype of surgery (decompression, fusion or both) and the extent of the surgery as well as what approach or approaches used. Is it a first time surgery or a revision surgery or an adjacent level one.

It varies: There are a host of cervical spine surgeries that we do, some very minimally invasive and highly successful, and others that are more extensive. Among the two most common- an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion or disc replacement are both relatively successful with a low complication rate in the properly selected patient. Thank you for your question.