What Can Go Wrong If You Don’t Follow Your Spine Surgeon’s Post-Op Instructions
Category: Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: August 12, 2025
Spine surgery is a major step in helping decrease pain and increase function in your spine, but it’s only one important aspect of your recovery journey. Perhaps the most important part of your rehab are the weeks that follow your surgery. This will be a crucial time when healing is taking place, strength is being […]
Patients Who Make The Strongest Recovery After Back Surgery Do These 5 Things
Category: Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: June 9, 2025
Making a strong recovery after spine surgery doesn’t happen by accident. If you want to become the most functional version of yourself following a spinal procedure, you’ll want to follow the lead of patients who have achieved similar results in the past. In our experience, although they will all face their own challenges and work […]
How To Help Someone Recover After Emergency Back Surgery
Category: Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: June 28, 2023
The majority of spine surgeries are elective, meaning that the patient and their support team have had weeks and months to prepare for the operation and the impending recovery. However, every day there are people who are involved in traumatic accidents that require emergency spine surgery. As you might imagine, these cases are a bit […]
Early Signs Your Spine Surgery Was A Success
Category: Spine Surgery, Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: March 22, 2023
We live in a world where we want to know information as soon as possible, which is why one of the most common questions we get after a procedure is in regards to whether or not the operation was a success. From a technical standpoint, we can tell you if the underlying issue was corrected […]
6 Tips For Putting On Clothes After Spine Surgery
Category: Spine Surgery, Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: September 8, 2022
The process of physically getting dressed for the day is something that we oftentimes don’t pay much attention to unless we can no longer do it as easily as we once did. For many people who undergo a minimally invasive or open spinal procedure, it becomes evident rather quickly that getting dressed isn’t as easy […]
What to do if You’re Afraid of Painkillers After Spine Surgery
Category: Spine Surgery, Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: January 27, 2022
Regardless of whether you have a history of opioid abuse or you’re just worried that you may end up addicted to them following your operation, it’s not uncommon to want to avoid or limit your painkiller intake following a spine surgery. Opioids can be extremely addictive, and every year thousands of surgery patients end up […]
5 Tips For Recovering After Spinal Stabilization Surgery
Category: Spine Surgery, Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: July 22, 2021
Years of wear and tear or an acute injury to the spine can lead to degeneration and shifting of the spinal column. As discs or vertebrae shift, they can no longer provide as much support as they could previously. In essence, your spine starts to act like a Jenga tower as a game progresses. Certain […]
5 Things Every Patient Needs After Spine Surgery
Category: Surgery Recovery | Author: Stefano Sinicropi | Date: October 15, 2020
Spine surgery is a very individualized experience for the patient and surgeon, and while some aspects of your recovery will be unique, there are a number of standard protocols that everyone will have to follow after a spinal procedure. In today’s blog, we take a look at five things every patient will need to do […]
