Archive for the ‘spinal surgery’ Category
July 29th, 2010 | 
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Eric Nottmeier, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic in Florida, shares news about an intraoperative device that enhances complex spine surgery and improves outcomes for patients. Known as the O-Arm, this new device allows the surgeon to view clear, real-time images of the body during surgery and then use the images generated to navigate safely through the spine during an operation.
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An athlete all of her young life, Courtney began experiencing neck and joint pain that soon made it difficult to walk. With her mother Muriel’s support, Courtney received major spinal surgery at BWH.
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Low-cost treatment abroad in Croatia – http://www.spine-surgery-croatia.com/ . SED is a method of spinal surgery that announced the beginning of the period of minimally invasive spinal neurosurgery in the nineties of the past century. An American neurosurgeon Parviz Kambin was the first who in 1991. published the results of the treatment he called arthroscopic microdiscectomy. Since then, with the advance of technology and acquiring new knowledge about disc ailments, endoscopic spinal neurosurgery has been rapidly evolving worldwide. The concept of this type of operative procedure has derived from relatively unfavorable results of present conventional spinal surgery and the fact that patients who have undergone traditional surgeries have difficulty with prolonged return to work and to their normal activities. The main principle of this method is minimally invasive approach that enables painless surgeries performed under local anesthesia, surgeries performed on all types of disc hernia, outpatient surgery, rapid recovery and timely start of physical therapy and prompt return to normal activities.
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Laser spine surgery in India has made a revolution in the field of sophisticated medical services. Indian doctors have proved themselves globally with emphatic results. Some people can get better with time if back pain not much severe but getting better isn’t always easy, and it can be very difficult to overcome such back pain problem. But some of the techniques for spine surgery take less time for recovery. So the best way to overcome this difficulty that too at an affordable price is to experience a spine surgery in India. Laser spine surgery is a process in which herniated intervertebral discs are treated by decrease of intradiscal pressure through laser energy. This is introduced by a needle inserted into the nucleus pulposus under local anesthesia and fluoroscopic monitoring. Laser spine surgery in India would definitely prove beneficial for the international patients who are deciding to take low price laser spine surgery in India. Indian spine surgery hospitals at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad are assisting international patients for getting successful laser spine surgery in India. Laser spine surgery in India would be more beneficial to patients because it takes lesser time for completion and still has less to pay at the laser spine surgery and treatment hospitals in India. Laser spine surgery in India with world class medical tourism can be described as a healthy holiday. In most cases, medical tourists are not your average vacationers opting for medical or cosmetic treatment, just because it is available, but patients with significant health concerns for whom the cost of their health-care is a primary concern and the vacation aspect a secondary one. Indeed, someone needing medical or cosmetic treatment would not go out of country if the ‘affordable healthcare’ factor-quality of treatment, cost savings and wait time did not justify it. As long as you are healthy enough to travel, you stand to benefit from medical tourisms offerings. Medical Tourism in India is a combination of wellness and healthcare coupled with leisure and relaxation which is aimed at rejuvenating a person mentally, physically and emotionally, drawing away from his/her daily routine to a relaxed environment in an exotic location. Medical Tourism in India is there to provide abroad patients superior medical and cosmetic care by highly skilled surgeons at some of the most modern and state-of-the-art medical facilities in India. Patients can put the money they are saving on the procedure into turning their journey into a magnificent, world-class retreat. A quality health treatment with much lower cost price assures another attraction to those who visit India; the country offers countless possibilities of making this experience the vacation of your dreams. Due to our large and diversified territory, India provides uncountable options of leisure. That means you and your family can enjoy an extraordinary stay in India while taking care of your health. All hospitals in India have an excellent English speaking staff and communication is superb.
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http://www.nspc.com
Ramin Rak, M.D. is a Neurosurgeon who specializes in Brain and Spine Surgery. He specializes in brain tumors, cerebrovascular and skull base diseases, stereotactic radiosurgery, as well as complex and minimally invasive spinal procedures. Dr. Rak is an expert in micro-neurosurgical techniques which he utilizes to perform most of his brain and spinal surgeries.
For more information, please visit www.NSPC.com.
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