Health Topics A-Z

A

• Acoustic neuroma
• Acoustic neuroma, suboccipital surgery
• Acoustic neuroma: Q & A
• Adjacent segment disease and spinal surgery: Q & A
• Adult degenerative scoliosis
• Anatomy of the brain
• Anatomy of the spine
• Aneurysm clipping
• Aneurysm coiling, flow diversion
• Aneurysm, ruptured
• Aneurysm, unruptured
• Angiogram
• Anterior cervical discectomy & fusion (ACDF)
• Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF)
• Arnold Chiari
• Arteriovenous malformations (AVM)
• Arthroplasy, Artificial disc replacement (Cervical)
• Artificial cervical discs Q & A
• Astrocytomas
• Atherosclerosis (carotid artery disease)
• Audiometry test (hearing test)
• Axial lumbar interbody fusion (AxiaLIF)

B

• Back pain
• Back pain Q& A - Video
• Balance activities for home
• Braces for your back
• Braces for your cervical-thoracic spine
• Braces for your neck
• Brain anatomy
• Brain biopsy
• Brain injury
• Brain tumors, introduction
• Brain tumors, metastasis
• Brain tumors, gliomas
• Brain tumors: Q & A
• Bursa injections
• Bypass surgery, cerebral

C

• Carpal tunnel surgery
• Carotid artery disease
• Carotid stenosis
• Cauda equina syndrome
• Cerebral bypass surgery
• Cervical myelopathy
• Cervical surgery: Anterior (ACDF)
• Cervical surgery: Posterior
• Cervical-thoracic braces
• Chiari I malformation
• Chiari decompression surgery
• Chiropractic care
• Clinical trials (current research studies)
• Clinical trials, understanding research studies
• Coccydynia
• Complex Spine Surgery
• Computed tomography (CT)
• Concussion (mild traumatic brain injury)
• Corpus callosotomy
• Craniopharyngioma
• Craniotomy
• Curvature of the spine (scoliosis)

D

• Decompression laminectomy
• Degenerative disc disease (spondylosis)
• Degenerative scoliosis (spinal deformity)
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
• Diaphragmatic Breathing to Reduce Pain & Stress
• Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
• Discectomy, anterior cervical (ACD)
• Discectomy, posterior lumbar
• Discogram
• Dry needling (VIDEO)

E

• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Electromyogram (EMG)
• Endovascular aneurysm coiling
• Endovascular surgery
• Endoscopic-assisted surgery
• Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors
• Epidural steroid injections (ESI)
• Epilepsy
• Epilepsy surgery
• Essential tremor
• Exercises: Back stretches & strengthening
• Exercises: Neck stretches & strengthening

F

• Facet arthritis, facet joint syndrome
• Facet joint degeneration & arthritis (VIDEO)
• Facet joint injections
• Facet nerve blocks
• Facet rhizotomy / radiofrequency ablation
• Facial pain, trigeminal neuralgia
• Flat back syndrome
• Foot drop Q&A
• Foraminotomy
• Fractures, spine
• Functional MRI (fMRI)
• Fusion, preparing for surgery
• Fusion, anterior lumbar interbody (ALIF)
• Fusion, lateral lumbar interbody (LLIF)
• Fusion, transforaminal lumbar interbody (TLIF)

G

• Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (framed)
• Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (frameless)
• Gliomas & glioblastomas
• Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (throat pain)

H

• Head injury
• Hearing test (audiometry test)
• Hemifacial spasm
• Hemispherectomy
• Herniated cervical disc
• Herniated lumbar disc

I

• Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)
• Intracranial artery stenosis
• Intrathecal drug pump

J

• Joint injections

K

• Kyphoplasty for spine fractures
• Kyphosis, spine deformity

L

• Laminectomy, laminotomy
• Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF)
• Leg pain (sciatica)
• Lumbar discectomy
• Lumbar puncture (spinal tap)
• Lumbar sympathetic nerve block

M

• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Meningioma tumors
• Metastatic brain tumors
• Microvascular decompression (MVD)
• Moyamoya disease
• Myelogram

N

• Neck pain
• Nerve block injection test
• Nerve block - occipital nerve
• Nerve block - sympathetic nerve
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)

O

• Occipital nerve block injection
• Oligodendrogliomas

P

• Pain, back
• Pain, face
• Pain, leg
• Pain, neck
• Pain management
• Parkinson's disease
• Parkinson's, coping with
• Parkinson's surgery
• Pelvic Floor Q&A
• Percutaneous stereotactic rhizotomy (PSR)
• Physical medicine & rehabilitation (PM&R)
• Physical therapy (PT)
• Pituitary adenoma
• Pituitary tumor surgery, endoscopic
• Positron emission tomography (PET Scan)
• Posterior cervical surgery: Discectomy, Foraminotomy, Laminectomy, Fusion
• Posture and body mechanics
• Proximal junction kyphosis

R

• Radiculopathy Q& A
• Radiofrequency (RF) ablation
• Radiosurgery: Gamma Knife (framed)
• Radiosurgery: Gamma Knife (frameless mask)
• Radiosurgery of the brain - stereotactic
• Radiotherapy of the brain - fractionated
• Rathke's cleft cyst

S

• Sacroiliac joint pain / fusion (SI joint injections)
• Sacroiliac joint: non-surgical treatments (VIDEO)
• Sacroiliac joint: surgical fusion (VIDEO)
• Sciatica leg pain
• Sciatica leg pain: Video Q&A
• Scoliosis, spinal deformity
• Seizures
• Self care for neck and back pain
• Shunt surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Spinal decompression: laminectomy
• Spinal fractures
• Spinal fusion, Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF)
• Spinal fusion, Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion (AxiaLIF)
• Spinal fusion, Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (LLIF)
• Spinal fusion, Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
• Spinal fusion, preparing for surgery
• Spinal fusion: minimally invasive outpatient surgery options (VIDEO)
• Spinal stenosis
• Spinal stenosis: diagnosis and treatment options (VIDEO)
• Spine, complex surgery
• Spine deformity, degenerative scoliosis
• Spine deformity surgery
• Spine anatomy
• Spine specialists
• Spondylosis (degenerative disc disease)
• Spondylolysis
• Spondylolisthesis
• STA-MCA bypass (cerebral bypass surgery)
• Stereotactic radiosurgery
• Stroke
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)
• Suboccipital surgery for acoustic neuroma
• Sympathetic nerve block
• Syringomyelia (syrinx)

T

• Tailbone pain (coccydynia)
• Temporal lobectomy
• Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
• Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
• Transsphenoidal surgery, endoscopic
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Trigeminal neuralgia: Q & A Gamma Knife radiosurgery
• Tumors, brain

V

• Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
• Vasospasm
• Vertebroplasty
• Visual field test

W

• Wada Test (Intracarotid Amytal test)
• Who treats spine problems?

X

• X-ray

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