What to do if your leg still hurts after cervical spine surgery and you can’t walk properly?

After cervical spine surgery, the leg still hurts and walking is unsteady, you need to consider that the nerve edema or lower limb muscle strength is insufficient, etc. Usually, you can apply medication and rehabilitation exercises. After cervical spine surgery, the leg still hurts and walking is unsteady, this situation is considered before the surgery, the spinal nerve compression is more serious, the nerve or spinal cord edema, and it takes several months to recover after the surgery, you can apply the dehydration and swelling medication, such as sodium heptadecyl saponin or mannitol injection. You can also apply postoperative drugs to nourish the nerves, such as methylcobalamin dispersible tablets, with the gradual recovery of the nerves and spinal cord, leg pain and unsteady walking will gradually improve. If the muscles of the lower limbs are atrophic, rehabilitation exercises are needed, such as doing straight leg raising exercises or squatting against the wall to increase the strength of the quadriceps muscles, and when the strength of the lower limbs is enhanced, the unsteady walking will gradually improve. So after cervical spine surgery or leg pain walking unsteadily, you need to go to the hospital to review the MRI film to see, if the surgical part of the film examination is not obvious abnormality, slowly can be recovered. The use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s advice.