While surgery is rarely the first choice of treatment, it sometimes becomes the only option when all other non-invasive treatments have failed. By using minimally invasive techniques in all aspects of neurosurgery, hospital stay and recovery time are shortened, while patient discomfort is minimized.  A few examples:

·      Most lumbar spine interbody fusion and instrumentation patients go home the next day with two 1 inch incisions.

·      Carpal tunnel syndrome surgery done endoscopically through a 3/8 inch incision, with no sutures to remove, no incision on the hand, no bandage or splint to wear, and no activity restrictions. Most patients go back to work the next day.

·      Pituitary tumor removal patients have no incisions, have no nasal packing to remove, and can go home the next day.

·      Brain tumors and trigeminal neuralgia treated through keyhole approaches or endoscopically, with hidden incisions, without shaving the head. Many go home the next day.

·      Non-coilable brain aneurysms clipped using non-invasive 3D CTA rather than transfemoral angiography.

My colleagues and I provide neurosurgical coverage for Norman Regional Hospital 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I also have operating privileges at Community Hospital and Physician's Surgery Center. I am accepting new patients with any of a variety of neurosurgical problems such as back pain, neck pain, carpal tunnel and other nerve entrapment syndromes, brain and spine tumors, pituitary tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, brain aneurysms and hemorrhages, Chiari malformations, and hydrocephalus.

*If you are a new patient, and you have been told there is more than a one week wait to be seen, please email me.