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Moyamoya disease is a rare disease that translates to “Puff of Smoke” in Japanese. Normally, blood is taken to the brain through the internal carotid ...

An AVM or an arteriovenous malformation, is a tangle of blood vessels within the brain. Normally, blood travels to the brain by arteries and spreads ...

As we get age, plaque builds up in our blood vessels. This is caused by smoking and other lifestyle choices like poor diet. One of the most common ...

An AVM or an arteriovenous malformation, is a tangle of blood vessels within the brain. Normally, blood travels to the brain by arteries and spreads ...

Back pain: FAQ’s What is causing my back pain? Back pain is usually caused by arthritis in the spinal joints (called the facet joints) and also if ...

Being diagnosed with a brain tumor can be scary and life-altering. Part of the initial evaluation after a brain tumor is diagnosed is imaging. This ...

Surgery for brain tumors involves general anesthesia which means the patient is completely asleep for the entire procedure. In some cases, the patient ...

As we get age, plaque builds up in our blood vessels. This is caused by smoking and other lifestyle choices like poor diet. One of the most common ...

An aneurysm is a small balloon that forms on a weakening wall of a blood vessel. It is estimated that about 2 to 4% of the world’s population have ...

Disk replacement in the neck has been around for quite some time and the technology available is phenomenal. In the United States, we have FDA ...

With disk replacement, patients are usually able to get off of pain medications after surgery sooner than with fusion. They tend to get back to work ...

The traditional approach to fixing neck or arm pain that is not responding to medications or to physical therapy is to consider a procedure that I ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is therapy that delivers targeted electrical impulses to the brain to treat different neurologic disorders like ...

Overview: Herniation and disk bulges are common in people. Not everybody that has a disk bulge has a nerve that is being pinched by it and not ...

If you are reading this, it's probably unlikely that you have a fracture that is unstable since most people that have that condition usually present ...

Essential tremor is one of the most common neurologic conditions in the world. It consists of a trembling or shaking that worsens over time, and it ...

Spine surgery is a complex decision-making process. There are decompression surgeries and there are surgeries that involve both decompression and ...

The spine is made up of a series of joints which are composed primarily of a disk which can degenerate over the course of time due to the fact that ...

A glioma is a type of tumor that begins from inside the brain itself. These tumors can be either benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancerous). They ...

This seems to be a widely-researched topic by patients and while there is a lot of information out there about this topic from various non-physician ...

Overview: Herniation and disk bulges are common in people. Not everybody that has a disk bulge has a nerve that is being pinched by it and not ...

This seems to be a widely-researched topic by patients and while there is a lot of information out there about this topic from various non-physician ...

Coflex™ is a non fusion procedure that is sometimes used for indirect decompression. Essentially, decompression surgery is utilized to take pressure ...

You would only consider surgery if you're NOT getting better with the other therapies that are mentioned in my blog. If you are having persistent ...

Patients that have spine tumors are often faced with a devastating diagnosis. It can be challenging for them to find out that there is something ...

Overview: Herniation and disk bulges are common in people. Not everybody that has a disk bulge has a nerve that is being pinched by it and not ...

Treating patients with neck and back problems without the use of fusion involves replacing or fixing a disk that has been damaged rather than fusing ...

The normal anatomy of our head starts with the hair and scalp on the outside, the bony skull below, and then the brain on the inside. Between the ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is therapy that delivers targeted electrical impulses to the brain to treat different neurologic disorders like ...

Parkinson’s disease is a common neurologic disorder that affects around 1% of people over the age of 65. In the United States alone, there are close ...

One of the common clinical scenarios I encounter as a neurosurgeon is a patient who has persistent and severe pain in the back or the legs after a ...

You would only consider surgery if you're NOT getting better with the other therapies that are mentioned in my blog. If you are having persistent ...

Open back surgery can be avoided altogether when accessing the spine through the stomach. With this procedure, the disk is removed and replaced with ...

Moyamoya disease is a rare disease that translates to “Puff of Smoke” in Japanese. Normally, blood is taken to the brain through the internal carotid ...

Parkinson’s disease is a common neurologic disorder that affects around 1% of people over the age of 65. In the United States alone, there are close ...

It is important to be prepared before surgery to make sure that there is a clear understanding of which medicines can be continued and which should be ...

Spine surgery is a complex decision-making process. There are decompression surgeries and there are surgeries that involve both decompression and ...

It is important to be prepared before surgery to make sure that there is a clear understanding of which medicines can be continued and which should be ...

Back pain: FAQ’s What is causing my back pain? Back pain is usually caused by arthritis in the spinal joints (called the facet joints) and also if ...

Robot assisted spine surgery utilizes the good things about spinal navigation but significantly increases the accuracy of screw placement into the ...

The field of minimally invasive spine surgery is rapidly evolving and Robotics is one technology I utilize. This makes me more efficient in the OR ...

The spine is made up of a series of joints which are composed primarily of a disk which can degenerate over the course of time due to the fact that ...

Robot assisted spine surgery utilizes the good things about spinal navigation but significantly increases the accuracy of screw placement into the ...

The field of minimally invasive spine surgery is rapidly evolving and Robotics is one technology I utilize. This makes me more efficient in the OR ...

One of the common clinical scenarios I encounter as a neurosurgeon is a patient who has persistent and severe pain in the back or the legs after a ...

It is important to be prepared before surgery to make sure that there is a clear understanding of which medicines can be continued and which should be ...

Patients that have spine tumors are often faced with a devastating diagnosis. It can be challenging for them to find out that there is something ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a common neurologic disorder in which there are severe zaps of pain in the face. Patients often describe the pain as aching or ...