I had c6-7 fusion February last year.I couldn't raise my arms above my head without a lot of pain.
I did the P.T. thing for a while without improvement and the surgeon was talked into doing the fusion.
He said at the outset there are no guarantees of a substantial improvement.
But after a year it's great and was well worth doing.
this is an ortho surgeon in the hospital I worked in as an RN who has a fantastic reputation that's well
deserved.
Later I had trouble with T 3-4 and my sternum ,we did a bone scan and they basically said you're old
and you have arthritis in the symphysis of your sternum and deal with it.
I couldn't pee after surgery and have had a green light laser of the prostate as well so I think I'm done
with surgery for a while.
It took about six months for my neck to feel right.
I was allowed to ride after three months but I walked miles before that.
Also I'm seventy-one and back riding mountain and road but road position is a moving target and one of
these days I'll nail it.
Good luck to you and do what the dr says.