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Originally Posted by spine95
Well Doc, as usual, I agree with you. Perhaps I have had bad luck with the surgeons who have worked on me but NONE of them wanted to do post op pain. Most referred me on at four weeks post op.
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Ah... when "post-op" was mentioned, I was thinking about the first few days following the procedure to deal with pain
from the procedure.
Residual pain, once that from the surgery itself has worn off, I guess would be appropriate/logical to hand off/back to a PM specialist, physiatrist, etc. until it's determined if rehab will work or the surgery failed, or whatever. Sometimes surgery is supposed to alleviate pain; others it's just supposed to (hopefully) keep things from getting any worse.
Nothing is ever easy.
Doc