Brain Tumor and Medical Experts Neurological Surgery P.C. of Long Island, NY, Announces Services for 2007
Neurological Surgery P.C. (www.neurosurgeryli.com) of Long Island, NY, has announced its 2007 services in advanced treatments of brain and spine disorders. Neurological Surgery's physicians are recognized in the medical community as experts in minimally invasive procedures, including Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Microdiscectomy, Kyphoplasty, and X STOP. The practice provides diagnosis and treatment for brain tumors, spine tumors, face pain, back pain, herniated disc, and all other neurological and spinal symptoms.
Great Neck, NY (PRWEB) February 2, 2007 -- Neurological Surgery P.C. of Long Island, NY, has announced their 2007 services in advanced treatments of brain and spine disorders. Neurological Surgery's physicians are recognized in the medical community as experts in minimally invasive procedures, including Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Microdiscectomy, Kyphoplasty, and X STOP.
Steven Burstein, Michael Brisman, William Sonstein, Jeffrey Brown, and Benjamin Cohen also serve as Chiefs of Neurosurgery in the best hospitals in Long Island, New York. The practice provides diagnosis and treatment for brain tumors, spine tumors, face pain, back pain, herniated disc, and all other neurological and spinal symptoms.
Neurological Surgery has now opened two Long Island neurosurgery facilities - a Great Neck, NY office at 600 Northern Blvd., and a Rockville Center, NY office at 100 Merrick Road. Through these facilities, the practice offers diagnosis and treatment options including the latest in Standup MRI scans and Open MRI scans, and a post-operative physical rehabilitation and physical therapy facility. The MRI facility provides the neurosurgeon with a patient's brain tumor pictures, even when dealing with brain tumor early symptoms.
Neurological Surgery is a national leader in several aspects of neurology and neurosurgery, including:
- Brain tumors, spine tumors and spinal surgery
- Trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain
- Stereotactic radiosurgery
- Spinal stimulation, spinal stenosis and XSTOP
- Kyphoplasty and back pain
Trigeminal Neuralgia is a disease in which patients suffer from sharp intermittent pains in their face. There are several different treatment options available for treating this disease including medication and five different surgical procedures: percutaneous rhizotomy (radiofrequency, glycerol and balloon technique), stereotactic radiosurgery, and craniotomy (microvascular decompression). Patients go home the day of surgery, except in the case of craniotomy, which requires a brief hospital stay. Any one of these procedures may be the best choice for a particular patient. Patients with intractable face pain other than trigeminal neuralgia now have reason to be hopeful as well. Neurological Surgery, P.C. has been at the forefront of neurostimulation procedures (trigeminal nerve stimulators and motor cortex stimulators) that can now relieve these other types of facial pain. Dr. Michael Brisman and Dr. Jeffrey Brown perform all the different procedures for trigeminal neuralgia, and are leaders in the field of face pain surgery.
Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) is a minimally invasive technique for treating diseases of the brain and spine. SRS involves superfocusing radiation beams to treat a target with the effectiveness of a surgeon's scalpel. Neurological Surgery, P.C. is one of the few programs in the country, along with The Barrow Neurological Institute and the University of Pittsburgh, to offer both Gamma Knife and Cyberknife Radiosurgery treatments. Neurological Surgery, P.C. has one of the busiest radiosurgery practices in the Tri-State region, and offers the most advanced treatments available for brain tumors, spine and spinal cord tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, and AVM's (arterio-venous malformations). Dr. Michael Brisman and Dr. Jeffrey Brown are widely recognized for their expertise in the field of stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery.
Spinal Stimulation, also known as dorsal column stimulation, is a minimally invasive technique which can offer pain relief for patients with intractable pain in the spine or extremities, particularly pain in the low back and legs. The stimulator, which is a flexible tiny wire, is placed percutaneously just under the spinous lamina in the epidural space, and sends signals up to the brain which can cancel out sensations of pain. Two recent important advances have made this procedure more effective than ever. One is the development of the percutaneous "Octad" lead. This lead, with eight stimulation electrodes, (compared with the usual four) makes the procedure easier, faster, and more effective than ever. The other development is the rechargeable pulse generator. This device, which looks like a small pacemaker battery, powers the stimulator lead, and now can be recharged externally, without requiring replacement for nearly a decade. Dr. Michael Brisman and Dr. Jeffrey Brown have more than twenty years combined experience with implantation of percutaneous spinal stimulators.
X STOP is a titanium implant that can provide relief from the pain of spinal stenosis without a traditional laminectomy. Patients with lumber spinal stenosis (LSS) can suffer from pain in the low back and legs as a result of compression of the nerves in the spinal canal. The pain is classically worse when patients walk, and better when they stop walking and flex forward. This is because flexion tends to open up the spinal canal. The XSTOP is a minimally invasive procedure in which a small metal implant is placed between the posterior spinous processes of the affected levels (usually L3/4 or L4/5), and effectively produces a permanent slight flexion, which in turn can provide symptom relief. Dr. Stephen Burstein, Dr. William Sonstein and Dr. Benjamin Cohen are three of the few neurosurgeons in New York that offer this new procedure.
Kyphoplasty surgery is a new technique for repairing spinal compression fractures in patients with intractable pain. A special needle is inserted into the fractured vertebral body under fluoroscopy, a balloon is inflated, which restores vertebral body height, and cement is injected into the space left by the balloon. Patients go home the next day, and pain relief usually occurs within 48 hours. Dr. William Sonstein and Dr. Benjamin Cohen have experienced great success utilizing this procedure.
Neurological Surgery, P.C. is also at the forefront of complex spinal surgery. Dr. William Sonstein and Dr. Benjamin Cohen are two of the few neurosurgeons regionally who are fellowship trained in spine surgery. Whenever possible, they try to treat spine disease with minimally invasive treatments like microdiscectomy, kyphoplasty, and X STOP. However, when complex spinal fusion surgery is necessary, Dr. Sonstein and Dr. Cohen have routinely teamed up with orthopedic spine surgeons. The expertise of both surgical disciplines is thus utilized. As a result of this collaboration, spinal fusion patients spend fewer hours in the operating room, lose less blood, and recover more rapidly than if only one surgeon had been involved.
Neurological Surgery, P.C. offers patients the most advanced treatments of brain and spine disorders, using minimally invasive procedures like Gamma Knife, Cyber Knife, Microdiscectomy, Kyphoplasty, X-Stop, Carotid Stenting, Aneurysm Coiling and Interventional Pain Management, rather than major surgery whenever feasible. Their 15 physicians provide compassion combined with knowledge and experience.
Neurological Surgery, P.C. (www.neurosurgeryli.com) is one of the largest private practices for neurological surgery in the NY/NJ/CT Tri-State area. They now operate four locations including their new office in Forest Hills, "The Pinnacle" Suite 200, 112-03 Queens Blvd. They can be reached at 516-255-9031, or by email at info @ neurosurgeryli.com.
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