Here are five thoughts:
1. Recovery time is dependent on several factors:
- How old are you?
- What body part was operated on?
- Is the surgery to repair a traumatic injury or debride a degenerative one?
- Are you in good or poor physical condition at the time of the surgery?
- Are you a smoker?
- Do you have any comorbidities such as diabetes?
- What is your diet like?
- Do you eat large quantities of sugar, processed foods and/or drink soda?
2. Arthroscopic shoulder has three common types of procedures: rotator cuff repairs, labrum repairs and subacromial decompression or debridement surgeries.
3. Rotator cuff repairs can take anywhere from six to 12 months for a full recovery. Recovery time from a labrum repair can take anywhere from 16 to 24 weeks, but complete healing and remodeling of the repair site general takes a full year. Debridement or decompression surgeries can take roughly eight to 12 weeks, but can last as long as 16 to 36 weeks for a full recovery.
4. The most common procedures for arthroscopic knee repairs are debridement surgeries for minor tears and/or arthritis, meniscal repairs and ACL repairs. Debridement surgeries can typically take four to eight weeks to recover, meniscus repairs can take four to five months and the ACL repair can take six to 12 months for a full recovery.
5. Common lower back surgeries include single level lumbar discectomy, fusion surgeries and multilevel decompression for patients with advanced and degenerative spinal stenosis. Single level lumbar discectomy can typically take eight to 12 weeks to recover, spinal fusion can take up to eight months and spinal stenosis patients can recover in four to six months, unless the procedure is more complicated, in which case it can then take six to 12 months for a full recovery.
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