What Is Intraoperative Monitoring in Spine Surgery?
Intraoperative monitoring tracks spinal cord and nerve function in real time throughout an operation, alerting the surgeon to a problem before it becomes a permanent deficit. Electrodes placed on the patient measure electrical signals travelling along the cord and...
What Is Microdiscectomy and Who Needs It?
Microdiscectomy removes the herniated part of a lumbar disc that’s pressing on a spinal nerve root. It’s minimally invasive, done through a small incision, and most patients go home the same day. Leg pain relief tends to be immediate. Back pain and nerve...
AVM vs Aneurysm vs Cavernoma: What’s the Difference?
Three conditions, one label covering all of them: brain vascular malformation. But the similarities stop there. An AVM is an abnormal tangle of arteries and veins connected directly, bypassing the capillary system, high flow, high pressure, lifelong rupture risk. An...