Comprehensive Care You Can Count On
When an illness or injury affects your brain, spine or nerves, you may have symptoms ranging from pain or weakness to seizures or memory problems. Sometimes you can manage these symptoms with medicine or other nonsurgical therapies. But in other cases, your best treatment option might be surgery.
St. Joseph’s Health is a leader in evaluating and treating the full range of brain, spine, and nerve problems, from the common to the most complex and challenging – including conditions ranging from emergent brain trauma and strokes to brain and spine tumors, to complex spine disorders, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. Using advanced technology, our neurosurgeons are leaders in the latest surgical techniques, offering the full range of brain surgery procedures, including minimally invasive surgical techniques performed through small incisions — or, in some cases, no incisions at all. Minimally invasive brain surgery offers excellent outcomes with less pain, less time in the hospital, fewer complications, and faster recovery. In addition, our neurosurgeons use computer-generated images of the brain, taken before surgery, to create a 3D brain map. This helps them pinpoint the precise area of the brain they need to reach and find the best way to get there.
Our skilled neurosurgeons provide exceptional, comprehensive care, from initial consultation and diagnosis through treatment and follow-up, and work closely with you to create a personalized treatment plan that fits your lifestyle and best meets your needs.
Conditions We Treat
- Brain aneurysms, blocked arteries, or other problems with the blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord
- Brain tumors, such as meningiomas and gliomas
- Brain bleeds (subdural hematoma, intracranial cerebral hematoma)
- Craniofacial deformities
- Degenerative spine and disc disorders
- Epilepsy
- Herniated discs, sciatica, and pinched nerves
- Hydrocephalus
- Movement disorders — including Parkinson’s, essential tremors, dystonia, and facial pain disorders
- Neurological trauma
- Pituitary tumors
- Skull-base tumors
- Spina bifida and other congenital brain and spine disorders
- Spinal injuries
- Spinal tumors
- Spinal stenosis
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
- Trauma to the nervous system
Advanced Treatment Options
Neurosurgeons at St. Joseph’s Health are experienced in the latest neurosurgical techniques and treatments, including:
- Awake craniotomy (awake brain surgery) and brain mapping
- Brain tumor surgery for meningiomas, gliomas, and metastatic tumors
- Cerebrovascular surgery
- Deep-brain stimulation (DBS)
- Endoscopic (minimally invasive) brain surgery
- Endovascular neurosurgery
- Intraoperative (during surgery) imaging for cranial and spine procedures
- Minimally invasive and noninvasive treatments for strokes
- Minimally invasive spine and spinal cord surgery for the neck and lower back
- Neurovascular procedures to treat aneurysms, including traditional and minimally invasive options
- Radiosurgery, a noninvasive treatment that sends targeted beams of radiation into you brain to shrink tumors
- Shunt surgery (a procedure to treat hydrocephalus)
- Transsphenoidal surgery (minimally invasive brain surgery that we perform through the nose)
- Trigeminal neuralgia treatment, including microvascular decompression (Jannetta procedure), injections, and other treatment options
