Neuronavigation guided brain tumor surgeries
Consider yourself in an unknown town and you lost your way. Ancient days it used to be celestial bodies like pole star to guide sailors. Modern days it is google maps and GPS technology. Similar is the situation, when a neurosurgeon enters brain. Earlier days crude guidelines like bony prominences were utilized to mark the extent
Trigeminal Neuralgia: the suicide disease
Pain is an indicator of disease and signifies something irritating the well-being of human body. Persistent pain often brings disruption in daily living and most of the times prevents delivering performance in activities of daily living and work place. This also causes loss of money and absenteeism. Trigeminal neuralgia is one such pain, which comes
Migraine: How to Cope with an attack?
A 44 years old lady walks into my clinic. She sits in the chair besides and starts with tears in her eyes. “My headache is killing me.” On further questioning, she told she has been having such type of headache as if something is hitting inside her head for last about 12 years. Every time
Low Back Pain
An estimated 75 to 85 percent of general population will experience some form of back pain during their lifetime. In about 90 percent of all cases, pain improves without surgery. Fifty percent of all patients who suffer from an episode of low back pain will have a recurrent episode within one year. The common causes
Ergonomics for Office
Computers, desks and chairs have become integral part of our lives and so the back pain and neck pain. Many a times we all would have experienced back pain. Most of the times, it subsides. But what makes the back pain originate when we sit for long hours? It has been proposed that sitting increase
PILLOW – Does it really matter?
In my practice of spine surgery, I see almost about 50 patients a month with neck pain. The eternal question – “Doctor, Should I use a pillow or not?”. The question seems to be very logical since eight hours of a day we spend in bed; one-third of a day indeed. To understand the importance