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Originally Posted by Your Calgary Flames!
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This is my personal experience and of course these guys have the best care so obviously different.
I have had multiple spinal surgeries do to the disks in my back. Shaving down the vertebrae (decompression) and disk is relatively simple. I do however have a numb knee that will never heal do to permanent nerve damage as the process to get surgery took too long. My brother has a spinal fusion in his back. This is quite a bit more serious and does pretty much limit harsh exercise.
I had a fellow come into my work and we were chatting it up before I went for surgery and he told me that he had a serious accident and that they wanted to do a disk replacement in his neck. Was pretty rare procedure at the time and could go side ways quick. It ended up going okay and he showed me the after pictures. I never asked how active he can be from that point on however.
Anyway. My personal opinion that a neck disk replacement is pretty serious. Obviously why they are having issues agreeing as what to do.
Edit: rare procedure
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A bit off topic, but I'm curious why you said this? I broke my neck in two places, had a cervical spinal fusion Surgery 1.5 years ago and after 4 months in a cervical collar started exercising again. Within 6 months I was back to intensive 90 minute HIIT training sessions virtually everyday. I dont lift super heavy anymore but my strength is close to the level it was pre injury. I also perform some pretty intensive manual labour at work everyday (brick and stone mason).
So I have to question the advice your brother is getting. Or perhaps I need to question my own medical advice...lol.