Fig. 1: Relationship between the portion of performance gain during rehabilitation, which was independent of neurological improvement during rehabilitation, and the time from spinal surgery to admission to rehabilitation.
From: The role of comprehensive rehabilitation in the care of degenerative cervical myelopathy
The majority of the patients entered into the study were within 70 days of spinal surgery. For these, the time from surgery to rehabilitation did not affect the portion of the gain in performance during rehabilitation, which was independent of the neurological improvement during rehabilitation.
