Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-09-01 22:56
FWIW, about 10 years ago I had a bout of fairly severe pain going down my right arm all the way down to my wrist and into my 4th and 5th fingers. When I finally went to see an orthopedist about it, he left the examining room to look at my X-rays, and the first words out of his mouth when he came back into the room were, "How long ago were you in your auto accident?" Apparently, my cervical spine looks like a disaster of some kind happened to it.
There wasn't in my case anything as definitive as an old fracture. Just a lot of desiccated disks, degenerated vertebrae and at least one seriously pinched nerve. I didn't have surgery, but I did spend several weeks in PT and had a couple of steroid epidurals in the area.
The point of my relating all this detail is to say that once the pressure on the nerves is relieved by whatever method the doctor thinks will be most effective, there's really nothing to stop you from continuing to play. I'm not quite your age (I've only just made it to 72), but it sounds to me like your surgery, if it goes well, should have you back to playing fairly quickly.
Karl
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