Early Postoperative Home Exercise Program After Cervical Spine Surgery

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Surgical treatment of a cervical degenerative condition (cervical stenosis,
spondylosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, disc herniation) using anterior cervical
discectomy and fusion procedure;

2. English speaking due to feasibility of employing study personnel to deliver and assess
the study intervention; and

3. Age older than 21 years (younger individuals do not typically have a cervical
degenerative condition)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients having surgery secondary to trauma, fracture, tumor, infection, or spinal
deformity;

2. Patients undergoing cervical corpectomy;

3. Diagnosis or presence of severe psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or other
psychotic disorder, including but not limited to Brief Psychotic disorder and
Delusional disorder;

4. Documented history of alcohol and/or drug abuse;

5. Patients having surgery under a workman's compensation claim; and

6. Unable to provide a stable telephone or physical address