6 months after spine surgery - L5-S1 fusion as a dancer
It's been a few weeks since I last posted as I have been very busy with the end of term, but I've now broken up for summer so I have a bit more time to write some more posts! In my last post, I talked about my recovery in the first few weeks after my spinal surgery, how it affected me immediately post op and a little bit about my initial recovery. In this post, I want to focus more on how my body has specifically been affected now that I'm at the 6 month recovery mark, and how this has impacted both my training and my work life. Like I said in my most recent post, I am astonished at how well my body has recovered from the surgery. While the first few weeks were very very hard, with even just trying to walk normally being a real struggle, over time things got much easier and my improvement was getting more and more obvious as days went by. At the 6 week mark I was allowed by my surgeon to start carefully exercising again, meaning a small amount of cardio and stretching whe...