Return to Work After Surgery for Cervical Radiculopathy: Prospective Data From a Swedish Nationwide Cohort of 3929 Patients
Eighty-five percent of the patients surgically treated for radiculopathy RTW within 1 year. Higher age, jobs with greater physical demands, longer duration of arm pain, higher preoperative neck disability index and lower EuroQOL 5 dimensions scores, as well as being on full-time sick leave, were all linked to a reduced chance of RTW.
Authors
- Victor E. Staartjes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1039-2098)
- Mateo Tomas Fariña Núñez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6427-5407)
- Erik Edström
- Adrian Elmi-Terander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3776-6136)
- Victor Gabriel El-Hajj
- Marcus Roland Victor Gustafsson
Institutions
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Örebro University (SE)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- University Hospital of Zurich (CH)
- Schulthess-Klinik (CH)
- Öhlins (Sweden) (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurosurgery
- Published
- 2026-02-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000003927
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00