Spine surgery recovery time varies depending on the type and manner of surgery, the patient’s condition and physical fitness, and the outcome of the surgery. Typically, spine surgery requires at least three months to recover, but can take up to a year or more if the spinal injury is more severe. If the type of surgery is minimally invasive, such as endoscopic anterior cervical spine surgery, patients can be discharged from the hospital as soon as the next day. However, for major surgeries such as scoliosis correction surgery, it will take at least a week before the patient can be discharged from the hospital. If healing of tissues is required, such as fractures and fusions, it usually takes six months, but if the preoperative nerve damage is more severe, the recovery period can take years or even a lifetime. Three months after spinal surgery is the prime time for recovery, during which time the body undergoes a stress response to the surgical trauma, cells proliferate and gradually repair the surgical wounds, and spinal function is eventually restored.