NEUROSURGERY: UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES

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The implantation of spinal stimulators and even deep brain stimulators are examples of the merging of technology and that most sophisticated of neurochemical devices — the human brain and nervous system.

However, all too often patients are subjected to unnecessary and sometimes harmful procedures because pain is still thought of in a very simplistic way. In some cases the operation is done technically with brilliance but still fails to resolve the suffering. It must always be remembered that surgery once performed is difficult to reverse.

Neurosurgeons may be involved in the treatment of such difficult pain conditions as phantom limb pain, trigeminal neuralgia and central pain following strokes.

The major involvement of neurosurgeons together with anaesthetists at pain clinics is to perform nerve blocks — or to cut nerve pathways when there is no other choice. In many cases, patients obtain temporary pain relief. With the onset or recurrence of pain six months later, the problem is again posed as what to do to help such patients.

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