What happened to Carson Daly? Did Carson Daly Have Back Surgery?

Carson Daly a television host, radio personality, producer, and television personality underwent an Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) procedure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in late August 2022.

The procedure was an attempt to alleviate the back pain he’s had for years, stemming from a T12 compression fracture that he sustained in the snowmobile accident in 1997 while working for MTV.

Carson told TODAY that the procedure was a last-ditch effort, but it didn’t work as well as he had hoped, leading him to his Mount Sinai medical team.

Carson shared that he’s now reassessing his relationship with eating, drinking and exercising. “I realized that I needed to sort of reassess my relationship with some of these things that I was masking the pain with,” he said. “And that becomes the complexity of healing.”

Carson shared he’s in physical therapy as part of his recovery, so there’s still work to be done, but that he’s very optimistic for the future.