Spinal cord tumors can cause a wide range of symptoms, including pain, aches and neurological issues like muscle weakness or loss of sensation. All of these symptoms can make it…
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Intramedullary tumors, like all spinal cord tumors, can cause back pain and neurological symptoms like muscle weakness, tingling and loss of sensation. Symptoms like these can progress to the point…
An intradural extramedullary tumor is a spinal cord tumor that causes spinal cord compression — nerves in and around the spinal cord are compressed as the tumor grows in size....
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Being diagnosed with a cervical spine tumor can be frightening — there are many questions that come up, and it can often be a challenge to find the right answers….
Have you been diagnosed with a spinal meningioma? Planning the details of your spinal meningioma surgery can be more overwhelming than the surgery itself. From making sure that insurance will…
Benign nerve sheath tumors are nervous system disorders that can come in many different forms. They are very amenable to treatment, but sometimes the best option is no treatment at...
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Back pain is a condition that varies widely between patients. Everybody has a unique set of causes and symptoms, therefore everybody may respond differently to treatment. Luckily, there are a…
Chronic neck pain is not just a significant physical setback, but a frustrating (and even confusing experience) as well. If you’re one of many people dealing with chronic neck pain…
The recovery from spinal surgery used to be a months-long commitment, fraught with pain, inactivity and even resulting immobility. All of this is in the past with the more recently…
Making the right health care decisions for yourself involves knowing your options and having the information to choose the right ones. If you have been diagnosed with a spinal meningioma,…
