Post-Surgery Rehabilitation

For patients who have had back surgery, rehabilitation is as important following back surgery as it is following knee, shoulder, arm, or foot surgery. Although surgery can often times relieve the symptoms the patient was having prior to surgery, it can also result in an increase in back or neck pain as well as contribute to an increase in strength and flexibility problems.

When a patient has surgery, the lumbar or cervical muscles are weakened and lose strength. As those key muscle groups atrophy, pain and inflexibility increase. Until the strength of those muscles is addressed, the downward cycle of muscle guarding, pain, more muscle guarding, more muscle atrophy, and more pain will continue.

Med-X post surgery rehabilitation can speed recovery and return of function.