Personally I've had 7 back surgeries in 5 years, to include 2 microdisc surgeries and a cyst removal. I'm also in the military and this is a very common injury/surgery and can tell you that I wouldn't be overly optimistic with Romo being the QB of old. These surgeries are more an indicator that Tony has a degenerative problem as opposed to a one time injury, and if that is so there is really no getting better long term. When you look at the fusions that Peyton had they were on his cervical spine which has a much higher success rate than the lumbar section. He had part of his disc cut out during this surgery, now he has less disc between whatever 2 vertebrae he had surgery on. Once herniated the likelihood of subsequent herniation's go up, and this is what I've seen in myself and coworkers where our job is more physical than the general population but no where as physical as an NFL player.
