You don't usually call a man "lucky" after he wipes out on a snowmobile, breaks bones, and has to be medevaced to the nearest trauma center.  You do, however, when you realize just how close he came to severing his spinal cord.  Dr. Michael G. Kaiser from the Spine Center was this man's surgeon...

A 48 year old man, we'll call Hank, fell off a ladder and broke his back.  He suffered a complete spinal cord injury and had no feeling or movement from the waist down.  Doctors were able to get him in the operating room within 48 hours of his injury where they performed an experimental new surger...

Sometimes a patient with back pain has tried everything, pain killers, physical therapy, injections, even surgery, and still has pain. This is where specialists like Dr. Christopher Winfree from our Pain Center come in.  He can surgically implant a spinal nerve root stimulator (SNRS) to block...

This year at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) they added pediatrics to their Integrated Medical Learning (IML) program.  Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center was one of the presenters during a session on the surgical management of Chiari Malfo...

The patient, “Harry”, was a 77 year old Korean War Veteran who suffered from both pain and numbness on the top and bottom of both his feet. This was caused by nerve damage he had gotten from multiple episodes of frostbite during the war. He had been treated unsuccessfully using physical therapy and a number of pain relieving drugs including ones specifically used for nerve pain.

Dr. Christopher J. Winfree of The Center for Peripheral Nerve Surgery and his colleagues describe in a paper, soon to be published in the journal Neurosurgery, how the innovative use of ultrasound can guide surgeons in the placement of a pain relieving device for a patient with intractable foot pai...

Pediatric Neurological Surgery Center doctors Neil Feldstein, MD, Director, and Richard Anderson, MD, came back from a recent conference with potentially exciting news for some of our pediatric patients. There may be a new way to help people whose nerve damage has cost them control over...

Head injuries are one of the most common causes of disability and death in both adults and children. The injury can be as mild as a bump, bruise (contusion), or cut on the head, or can be moderate to severe in nature due to a concussion, deep cut or open wound, fractured skull bone(s), or from...