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Is it possible to have neck and lumbar surgery at the same time?

Spine Health | Last Active: May 26 10:19am | Replies (6)
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@hastobekatt

I have both cervical and lumbar stenosis (both multilevel) and my surgeon was proposing lumbar surgery followed 4 weeks later by cervical surgery.

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Jennifer, Volunteer Mentor | @jenniferhunter | May 25 11:20pm

@hastobekatt Wow, that is a tight schedule. If you are having lumbar laminectomies, that may not be an involved recovery. If you are having more involved lumbar fusion or instrumented lumbar surgery, the recovery is often longer, more painful and may involve rehab. Your surgeon needs to answer what your recovery would be like. I know my cervical recovery from a single level fusion was around 6 months, that was 3 months in a neck brace and rehab after that. Of course your experience may be different.

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