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A doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases or conditions affecting the brain and spinal cord (central and peripheral nervous system) is called a neurosurgeon. This includes congenital disorders, tumors, injury, and infections of the brain and spine, and stroke.
If you are suffering from signs and symptoms, such as partial or complete paralysis, muscle weakness, seizures, loss of sensation, tingling sensation, chronic unexplained pain, etc., you might need to consult a neurosurgeon.
You should consult a neurologist for nerve damage or nerve problems. After diagnosis the cause and severity of nerve damage, the neurologist will prescribe medicines or refer you to a neurologist for surgery.
The common conditions that a neurosurgeon treats are:
- Strokes.
- Brain aneurysms.
- Tumors of the brain or spinal cord.
- Head, spine, or neck injuries.
- Seizures.
- Parkinson’s disease.
If your sciatica is not relieved with the help of pharmacological treatments and other therapies, then you can consult a neurosurgeon. The surgeon will surgically treat the cause of sciatica like disc herniation and nerve impingement.
Neurosurgery helps in treating conditions that cannot be treated with the help of medicines, congenital neurological disorders, and other brain and spinal cord diseases that can have severe side effects if left untreated.
Neurology is a medical specialty that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders affecting the central and peripheral nervous system, brain, and spinal cord. While neurosurgery is the field that deals with the surgical management of these conditions.
Aneurysm repair, craniotomy, disk removal, laminectomy, and spinal tap are the common surgeries that a neurosurgeon performs.
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