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Spinal fractures are different than a broken arm or leg. A fracture or dislocation of a vertebra can cause bone fragments to pinch and damage the spinal nerves or spinal cord. Most spinal fractures occur from car accidents, falls, gunshot, or sports. Injuries can range from relatively mild ligament and muscle strains, to fractures and dislocations of the bony vertebrae, to debilitating spinal cord damage. Depending on how severe your injury is, you may experience pain, difficulty walking, or be unable to move your arms or legs. Many

Failed back surgery syndrome occurs when back pain persists after spine surgery—beyond normal post-surgery pain while recovering. Instead, the surgery did not provide the expected results or, in fact, created additional back pain.Treatment for failed back surgery syndrome may include physical therapy, nerve blocks, medications, injections or surgery.

Causes of Chronic Post-Surgical Spinal Pain

Spinal pain that occurs right after surgery is from sensitized nerves, while chronic post-surgical spinal pain is often from spinal instability but can have many different causes.

Surgery caused arachoiditous:a condition of acute inflammation of the arachnoid membrane that

A stroke is a medical emergency that happens when the blood flow to your brain is interrupted. Without blood, your brain cells start to die. This can cause serious symptoms, lasting disability, and even death.

There’s more than one kind of stroke. Keep reading to learn about the three main types of strokes, their symptoms, and treatments.

There are three main types of stroke: transient ischemic attack, ischemic, and hemorrhagic. It’s estimated that 87 percent of strokes are ischemic.

Transient ischemic attack

Doctors also call a transient ischemic

Cluster headache is pain that occurs along one side of the head. It’s frequently described as pain that occurs around, behind, or above the eye and along the temple in cyclic patterns or clusters. The pain of a cluster headache is very severe. Many patients describe a “drilling” type of sensation. For classification as a true cluster headache, associated autonomic features such as tearing/watering of the eye, redness of the conjunctiva, rhinorrhea or nasal stuffiness, eyelid drooping, sweating on one side of the face, or changes in pupil

A herniated or “ruptured” disc is a common source of neck pain and arm pain.  Discs are the shock-absorbing pads that are between vertebrae, the series of small bones that make up your spine.  Your cervical spine is located in your neck.  At the cervical spine, the discs and joints allow your neck to move and provide stability for your head.  The discs also act as a cushion to protect the cervical vertebrae.

An opening in the center of each vertebra forms the spinal canal.  Your spinal

Astrocytoma is a type of cancer that can form in the brain or spinal cord . Astrocytoma begins in cells called astrocytes that support nerve cells.

Astrocytoma signs and symptoms depend on the location of your tumor. Astrocytomas that occur in the brain can cause seizures , headaches and nausea. Astrocytomas that occur in the spinal cord can cause weakness and disability in the area affected by the growing tumor.

Astrocytoma can be a slow-growing tumor, or it can be an aggressive cancer that grows quickly. The

An aneurysm occurs when an artery’s wall weakens and causes an abnormally large bulge. This bulge can rupture and cause internal bleeding. Although an aneurysm can occur in any part of your body, they’re most common in the: Brain, aorta, legs and spleen.

Aneurysm are a very serious condition. They occur when a blood-filled bulge forms on the wall of a weakened area in an artery. Aneurysms commonly occur in the abdomen and brain and if not treated can lead to serious health conditions. Stroke

Spinal fusion is surgery to join two or more vertebrae into one single structure. The goal is to stop movement between the two bones and prevent back pain. Once they’re fused, they no longer move like they used to. This keeps you from stretching nearby nerves, ligaments, and muscles that may have caused discomfort.

why is spinal fusion done?

Spinal fusion permanently connects two or more vertebrae in your spine to improve stability, correct a deformity or reduce pain. Your doctor may recommend spinal fusion to treat the following

A spine MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, uses powerful magnets, radio waves, and a computer to make very clear and detailed pictures of your spine. You may need this scan to check for spine problems such as Low back pain, Neck pain and Numbness, tingling, and weakness in your arms and legs. The MRI may scan your whole spine or just a part of it. Unlike X-rays and CT scans, it doesn’t use damaging radiation.

Anatomy of the spine 

The spinal column is made up of 33 vertebrae that are separated by spongy disks and

A metastatic brain tumor (also known as brain metastasis or secondary brain tumor) is cancer that begins elsewhere in the body and spreads to the brain. The metastatic brain tumor usually contains the same type of cancer cells found at the primary cancer site. For example, cancer cells in the lung, breast, skin, colon or kidney can move into the brain through the bloodstream and cause a metastatic tumor. Brain metastases can be a single tumor or multiple tumors.

Metastatic brain tumors currently have the fastest growing rate of incidence of