Below are a number of reasons why it is advisable to visit a specialist in Neurosurgery. The sudden onset of headaches, spinal pain or direct trauma in these areas … A consultation in time can significantly improve your quality of life.
Today there are, if you look for example at what is offered in 2019, a total of 44 medical specialties for the Medical Intern Resident (MIR) examination. In this wide range of possibilities is Neurosurgery, the field of medicine in which Dr. Bernardo Mosqueira develops his care work and one of the medical specialties less known by patients.
This important and necessary specialty can be defined as surgery of the central and peripheral nervous system. Therefore, a neurosurgeon will be a specialist in spinal pathologies, such as herniated discs and stenosis, both of the lumbar and cervical canal and spinal cord tumors.
Over time, there have been and still are many people who visit Dr. Mosqueira’s office to obtain a diagnosis of a problem that may or may not require surgery. The purpose of this article is to show which are the primary signs and symptoms that may be the consequence of a disease that may require the intervention of a neurosurgeon.
Do you know when to see a neurosurgeon?
Even the fact of not being able to remember a common word or the name of a specific object, related to memory loss, may be originated in circulation problems. However, the main reason why one should consult a neurosurgeon is when suffering sudden or chronic pain in the head, in which the entire skull and/or brain are affected; in the neck or back, affecting the spinal column.
These signs can also occur at the time of an accident in which one of these parts is directly hit. For example, low back pain is among the most common chronic problems, and up to eight out of ten people will suffer from it at some time in their lives.
Another of the causes for which it is recommended to visit a neurosurgeon is when weakness is felt in the arms and legs. In more common words, when “we are not able to pull our body”, and some kind of numbness may occur when a nerve is damaged.
In more extreme cases, it has been noticed a difficulty to articulate words, that is to say, they have difficulties to speak, the loss of vision when pressing some optic nerve, or convulsions originated by some irritation that affects the brain.
Many of these problems will not directly require surgery, such as a herniated disc or stenosis, but if you suffer from any of these symptoms can go directly to a specialized consultation to prevent the severity of these symptoms increase, receiving a comprehensive assessment that brings peace of mind to the patient.
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