Spine surgeons are used to talking about outcomes that live on radiographs and PROMs. Fusion rates. Adjacent segment disease. Neck Disability Index. Arm pain scores. Reoperation curves at five and ten years.
Patients, however, often ask a much simpler question: “Doc, when can I go back to work?”
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