Minimally invasive spine surgery, also known as MISS, has no specific meaning or definition. It implies a lack of severe surgical invasion. The older style of open-spine surgery for a relatively small disc problem used to require a 5-6 inch incision and a month in the hospital. MISS techniques utilize more modern technology, advanced imaging techniques […]
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Awake craniotomy is a neurosurgical technique and type of craniotomy that allows a surgeon to remove a brain tumor while the patient is awake to avoid brain damage. During the surgery, the neurosurgeon performs cortical mapping to identify vital areas, called the “eloquent brain“, that should not be disturbed while removing the tumor.
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WHAT IS PHYSIOTHERAPY? Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession that considers the way the body moves as being central to health, fitness and well-being. Physiotherapists aim to identify the exact cause of your symptoms through a thorough assessment, leading to a diagnosis and a treatment plan. This could include mobilization and manipulation, electrotherapy, specific strengthening and
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The term ‘Medical Tourism’ is coined to combine both medical treatment and tourism, so that people traveling from on country to another country for the sole of medical treatment require both services under one roof. Neurowellness provide high quality brain and spine care at affordable cost in comparison with the other medical treatment options world
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Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition causing facial pain, usually it is unilateral, right sided or left sided, characterised by sharp, electric shock like pain, which will be having trigger points. Pain lasts for few seconds. Pain is aggravated by chewing, talking, brushing teeth, shaving etc. Initially the condition can be managed with medications. We need
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CTS is a peripheral neuropathy of the median nerve. It causes compression of the median nerve in carpel tunnel at wrist. It causes pain, numbness, paresthesia in the distribution of the median nerve (Thumb, index and middle finger). Some of the predisposing factors include: diabetes, obesity, pregnancy, hypothyroidism and heavy manual work or work with
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Seizures or epilepsy is a common neurological disease. It affects about 1-2% of population. Epileptic seizures result from abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Most of the patients having seizures have no identifiable cause (idiopathic). Common cause for seizures or epilepsy are brain infection (TB or Neurocysticercosis), birth trauma, head injury, brain
Brain Tumor usually presents with chronic headache, vomiting, seizures, weakness of limbs and sometimes loss of consciousness. The brain tumour could be benign or malignant. The Most common beningn tumours are meningiomas, dermoids, pituitary tumours, CP angle tumours. The Malignant tumours include Glioblastoma, anaplstic astrocytomas, metastasis. Tumours can occur in childhood and the most common
Stroke is third most common cause of death. Stroke also known as cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the rapid loss of brain function due to interruption in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood flow) caused by blockage (thrombosis, arterial embolism), or a haemorrhage (bleeding). As a result,
Headache is the symptom of pain in the face, head, or neck. It can occur as a migraine, tension-type headache, or cluster headache.[1] There is an increased risk of depression in those with severe headaches.[2] Headaches can occur as a result of many conditions. There are a number of different classification systems for headaches. The most well-recognized is that of the International Headache Society which classifies it into more
