Drug-resistant Epilepsy / Parkinson’s disease / Motor disorders
Many patients with epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, and other movement disorders may not respond to medication, even with the most modern drug combinations. Their quality of life can be significantly affected. Many of these patients are young, otherwise healthy individuals, and they need to work and, above all, live a normal life. There […]
Modern Treatment of Spasticity
Under normal conditions, our muscles are in a state of a partial continuous contraction. This normal phenomenon is called muscle tone and is necessary for our body to maintain its natural posture, as well as to keep our muscles in a state of readiness when we want to perform a movement. The control […]
Postoperative chronic pain
This category includes a number of conditions such as the so-called failed back / failed neck pain syndrome. Many of these patients continue to suffer from pain, although clinical and imaging tests (X-rays, MRI scans, etc.) do not identify any cause of their pain. Implantation of spinal cord stimulators in the spine In […]
Post-traumatic pain
This describes the type of pain that persists after an injury, and is usually identified with neuropathic pain, i.e. pain that is not due to the injury itself, but to the chronic irritation of a nerve or nerves, and that lasts after the patient’s injuries have healed. Modern neurosurgery can help in the […]
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
This is the name given to the syndrome that used to be called reflex sympathetic dystrophy and heartburn. There are 2 distinct types of this syndrome. In type I no nerve injury can be found, while in type II the nerve injury is given. It can occur in patients who have undergone an […]
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
A large percentage of the population suffers from diabetes. In a percentage of the diabetic patients, microangiopathy develops due to chronic hyperglycemia and due to the poor condition of the small vessels of the upper and lower limbs. These small vessels supply blood to the small nerves that are distributed in the arms […]
