Early Postoperative Home Exercise Program After Cervical Spine Surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Patients having surgery secondary to trauma, fracture, tumor, infection, or spinal deformity;
• •2. Patients undergoing cervical corpectomy;
• •3. Diagnosis or presence of severe psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder, including but not limited to Brief Psychotic disorder and Delusional disorder;
• •4. Documented history of alcohol and/or drug abuse;
• •5. Patients having surgery under a workman's compensation claim; and
• •6. Unable to provide a stable telephone or physical address