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Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline which focuses on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. Neurological Surgery provides the operative and non-operative management (prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, critical care, and rehabilitation) of disorders of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their supporting structures and vascular supply.
The conditions that they treat include:
• Spinal disc herniation
• Spinal stenosis
• Hydrocephalus
• Head trauma (brain hemorrhages, skull fractures, etc.)
• Spinal cord trauma
• Traumatic injuries of peripheral nerves
• Brain tumors
• Tumors of the spine, spinal cord and peripheral nerves
• Cerebral aneurysms
• Some forms of hemorrhagic stroke
• Some forms of pharmacologically-resistant epilepsy
• Some forms of movement disorders (e.g.advanced Parkinson’s disease)
• Intractable pain of cancer or trauma patients and cranial/peripheral nerve pain
• Some forms of intractable psychiatric disorders
• Malformations of the nervous system
• Carotid artery stenosis
• Arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spinal cord
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Moyamoya disease (rare disease involving intra-cranial vascular stenosis).
All Medical Opinions Associates neurosurgeons are Board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons. They have extensive backgrounds, often with focus on certain aspects of neurosurgery practice. For example, one expert is a lecturer on Neuroanatomy and another concentrates on carotid artery disease, cerebral physiology, and disorders of the spinal cord. Another neurosurgeon specializes in spinal surgery, including micro-surgery of the spine and research and development of spinal instrumentation. Another medical expert treats both adult and pediatric neurosurgery and is Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at a major urban medical center.
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