- After Cervical Disc Surgery
After cervical disc herniation surgery, you should make sure that no water touches your neck wound for at least three days. Since wounds are usually closed with hidden stitches today, you can remove your dressing and take a bath at the end of this period. However, if you are told that you need to have your stitches removed, then you will need to have your stitches removed on the fifth day, but your wound will need to be covered with a dressing during this time.
It would be appropriate for you to spend the first week mostly at home and generally resting; After the first week, you can leave the house and walk around intermittently, or even go to work, but not for long periods of time. When one month is up, at a center close to your work or home; You will start physical therapy again for a full month. You will make the movements they will teach you during physical therapy a part of your life from now on.
After the Physical Therapy is over, after another month of exercise; That is, at the end of the third month, you can become a member of the gym, do heavy sports and return to your heavy work. After the surgery, you will use the painkillers, muscle relaxants and antibiotics given to you for the period recommended by your surgeon and then stop.
Remember that you had the surgery to get rid of the medications and achieve a quality life.
Use a pillow specifically made for the neck, these are available in men's and women's sizes. Don't sleep on the couch or anything. While sitting, not on the sofa, but on the chair; That is, sit without leaning back. When you are a driver or passenger in a vehicle, always adjust the head support on the top of your seat so that it touches the back of your head and heed this warning throughout your life.
Protect your neck from the cold. Do not make unbalanced or forceful movements; For example, do not lift very heavy objects and do not carry weights in one hand. If you have been told to use a neck brace for a certain period of time, never take it off while sitting or standing during this period, but of course, do not use this collar for more than the recommended time.
Of course, all this you have read, your surgeon. It is valid unless he tells you anything to the contrary.
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