The full recovery time after minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery ranges from 1 to 3 months depending on the presence or absence of postoperative reactions.
Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery is mainly applicable to patients with simple lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, etc. accompanied by nerve root compression, and it mostly adopts minimally invasive methods such as radiofrequency ablation, vertebroplasty, and vertebral foramen decompression and fusion, etc., which is less traumatic and has faster recovery after the surgery.
Usually, 3 days after the minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery, patients can wear a brace to get out of bed and stand up, 10 days after the surgery, they can wear a brace to get out of bed and gradually resume walking, and the symptoms of lumbar pain or twitching of the lower limbs gradually disappear in about 1 month, and they can recover completely.
However, there are individual patients who have not reduced or aggravated their preoperative symptoms, or even developed new symptoms. Some patients have not fully recovered 3 months after surgery.
After minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery, standardized treatment and rehabilitation exercises should be carried out under the guidance of doctors, and the specific recovery time can be consulted with professional physicians.