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Recovery After Spinal Surgery



Education video on Recovery After Spinal Surgery by Dr. Gary Simonds, former Chief of Neurosurgery at Carilion Clinic.

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  1. 10 out of 10 people who have these surgery all said after the surgery the pain is a nightmare last for months! People are not afraid of the surgery is the pain after the surgery that is what they are afraid of!

  2. I did L5 S1. And i feel like a million bucks i waited 3 years for surgery i walked in with major major pain. And i walked out of the hospital next day at 6am. On my own power no pain whats so ever. Thank you so much Dr Drew Bernard

  3. Daughter had magec rod implant early 2022 and left her with flatback-syndrome and post operative permanent neurological deficit.

    Post surgery, surgeon explained the intra operative that the neuromonitoring signal disappeared during lumbar screw implant, daughter's leg stopped moving, but they continued with the surgery until the end of the surgery.
    After the surgery, her legs started moving.
    We're wondering why they didn't perform the wake up test during the lost of the signal.

    Daughter woke up from surgery with leg numbness and swallow legs, leg jerking and shaking, hypersensitivity to touch. 

    2 months post op, loss of bowel and bladder control and it then recovered after 4 months. 

    Since she woke up from the surgery, both legs were with electric shocks pain from lower back down to both feet, daily. She described as tingling, stabbing, needles pinched pain 24/7.

    It's been 15 months post op now, she's still suffering nerve pain daily. Permanent disability as a result of this outcome. Permanently in wheelchair now.

    She's still going back to the original surgeon fevery 8 weeks for magec lengthening procedures.

    The surgeon claimed it was a successful surgery and she needed to have more PT to get back to walking. 

    The question now is how to resolve the Neurological deficit and flatback syndrome issues.

    She losses her natural lordosis curvature since the op and not able to bear weight to stand or walk upright.

    With the 24/7 tingling and electric shocks on both legs, it is extremely impossible for her to be able to stand straight to walk. 

    Appreciate any input or advice to help her to get back her life.

  4. I've had two major surgeries on L4, L5, and S1. Pain was excruciating afterwards. No one will ever touch my lower back again regardless of how much pain I'm in. Best thing to do is never let anyone operate on your back. Odds are you'll never get rid of the pain you're in. Learn to live with it!

  5. Thank you so much for this video I just had a Laminectomy and in pain. I called my Dr but it's a busy office and sometimes they don't get back too you but your video helped me a lot. Also you have a very nice calming voice.

  6. Thank you so much for this video! I have to have lower back surgery due to scoliosis and my doctor today talked to me on the phone for about eight minutes, and the phrase that he used – "The first two weeks will be very painful" – is haunting me tonight and I am very frightened and in a panic frame of mind. I know I have to undergo this procedure, but I am truly terrified. THANK YOU for this video, I broke down in tears watching it. I so wish my doctor had talked to me the way you do in this video. Watching it I feel a little bit better. I wish you were my doctor. More doctors need to see this and learn how to speak to us, their patients. You are a treasure.

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