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Jeffrey Raskin is a Neurosurgery provider in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Raskin and is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Rhizotomy. His top areas of expertise are Spasticity, Arachnoid Cysts, Brain Abscess, Rhizotomy, and Posterior Fossa Decompression.
Kristian Aquilina practices in London, United Kingdom. Aquilina and is rated as an Elite expert by MediFind in Rhizotomy. Their top areas of expertise are Selective Mutism, Posterior Fossa Tumor, Hydrocephalus, Rhizotomy, and Laminectomy.
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Tom Novacheck is an Orthopedics provider in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Novacheck and is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Rhizotomy. His top areas of expertise are Spastic Diplegia Infantile Type, Beukes Familial Hip Dysplasia, Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), Rhizotomy, and Osteotomy. Dr. Novacheck is currently accepting new patients.
Summary: Little is known about the peripheral and central mechanisms of action of selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery for the treatment of spasticity. A better understanding of these mechanisms will enable us to improve the surgical procedure. This will require cortico-medullo-radiculo-muscular recordings never before performed and published in the literature, and the identification of variations in connect...
Summary: The study intervention is to perform standard somatosensory evoked responses limited to the face during rhizotomy procedures of the gasserian ganglion (trigeminal ganglion) for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. The evoked responses will be measured at two locations before and after the clinical rhizotomy including: the standard contralateral scalp (EEG) and at the gasserian ganglion through a...