Mick - I had an artificial cervical disc "installed" in my neck 2 years ago. The advantage of that vs. fusion was that I retained full mobility in my neck, and was back at full work within a month, probably closer to 2 weeks. The only problem is getting your Dr. to convince the insurance co. to approve the artificial disc. Good Luck. David Heidel, RPT Heidel Piano Services Spokane, WA (509) 465-9091 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of mick johnson Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 6:39 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] neck surgery/ recovery time Hello all. At some point in the very near future I need to have surgery to fuse some vertebrae in my neck. I was curious if any of you have ever had this procedure (apparently it is quite common) and if so, how long before you were able to return to a fairly normal tuning schedule. Just trying to plan ahead. Thanks in advance for any feedback. -- Mick Johnson, R.P.T. Kearney, NE 308-237-9264 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100104/11782963/attachment-0001.htm>
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