Many of the neurosurgical diseases can be treated without surgery. Chronic pains can be adequately treated with a short-term medication, with drug injections around the pain area (without or under fluoroscopic guidance) or with exercise and physical therapy.
Hearing about the specialty of Neurosurgery, each of us thinks that the work of a Neurosurgeon is purely surgical, i.e. performing surgeries. This view is only partially correct. After a series of tests, each clinician judges the severity and specificity of each patient’s condition and chooses the treatment method. I have a lot of experience in conservative methods of treating neurosurgical diseases, I consider it my ethical duty to perform surgery only when it is necessary. So, there is no need for a visit to the Neurosurgeon to be immediately associated in our minds with the surgery.
– Injections in the area of nerve roots of the spinal canal (Periradicular Therapy – PRT)
– Injection of drugs into the spinal canal (Epidural injection)
– Peri-articular injection of drugs into the small joints (facet joints) of the spine
– Peri-articular injection of drugs in the sacroiliac joint
– Thermal elimination (denervation) of the sensory nerves supplying the joints