Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery, in other words , surgery of the brain and nerves is a medical speciality concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with injury to or diseases/disorders of the brain, spinal cord, spinal column, and peripheral nerves within all parts of the body.

As neurosurgical specialists the neurosurgeons provide surgical and non-surgical care for multitude of conditions including ;

⁃treatment of tumors resulting from brain and spinal cord tissues and/or causing compression to these structures ,

⁃slipped/herniated discs of lumbar and cervical regions ,

⁃injuries to the head and spinal cord ,

⁃diseases affecting brain vessels such as narrowing (stenosis), clot formation (thrombosis), artery blockage (embolism) , rupture (brain hemorrage), aneurysm ( a bulge/ballooning in a vessel ),

⁃vessel narrowings in the neck area ,

⁃neurological developmental disorders of newborn babies ,

⁃epilepsy not responding to medical treatment ,

⁃selected patients with Parkinson’s disease/gait disturbances ,

⁃PAIN MANAGEMENT :  treatment of chronic pain syndromes has an important place in neurosurgery. Science of pain or Algology is a medical discipline concerned with the causes of pain and its origins. It is primarily used to detect the etiology of chronic pain and deals with pain syndromes exceeding 3 months  and their diagnoses and treatments.

⁃Algology aims at diagnosing the cause of pain and implementing the  therapy processes  in patients suffering from chronic pain .

⁃Applications for pain management include (but not limited to) epidural injections , and selective nerve root injections in situations originating from vertebral column .

⁃Procedures employed in treatment of headaches are often used .

⁃Applied with local anesthesia in the neck and upper /low back regions, epidural injections are extremely reliable and among the most commonly performed procedures in patients with spinal stenoses and herniated discs.