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