Patient Resources
Find information about your condition, explore treatment options, or prepare for recovery.
This information is educational and not a substitute for medical advice. Every patient's situation is different: your care team will help tailor recommendations to your diagnosis, symptoms, and goals.
Find Your Condition
Start with your diagnosis or symptoms. These guides explain evaluation and possible treatments; availability and suitability are discussed at your consultation.
Movement Disorders
Primary focus: deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound for tremor, Parkinson’s disease, and selected dystonias.
Radiosurgery: Tumors & Vascular Disorders
Focused treatment for selected brain tumors, vascular malformations, and functional conditions.
Epilepsy
Evaluation may include medication and EEG review, imaging, seizure localization with SEEG, resection, laser ablation, or neuromodulation.
Psychiatric & Tic Disorders
Complex Pain & Neuromodulation
Treatment Approaches
Compare how different treatments work and prepare questions for your care team. Recommendations depend on your diagnosis, anatomy, health, and goals.
Neuromodulation
Programmable stimulation for movement disorders and selected pain conditions.
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)Adjustable stimulation for tremor, Parkinson’s symptoms, and selected dystonias.
- Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)Education about trial, implantation, programming, and recovery.
- DRG & Peripheral Nerve StimulationTargeted options for selected focal and nerve-related pain syndromes.
Incisionless & Minimally Invasive
Focused therapies designed to limit disruption to surrounding tissue.
Radiosurgery & Stereotactic Surgery
Precise treatment planning tailored to the target and clinical goal.
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery & RadiotherapyFocused radiation adapted to lesion size, location, and treatment goals.
- Functional RadiosurgeryRadiosurgery for selected pain and functional conditions.
- Microsurgical & Robotic ProceduresResection or robot-assisted targeting when surgery is the best option.
Treatment Philosophy
Many neurologic conditions have more than one reasonable option: implant-based neuromodulation, lesioning approaches, or radiosurgery. The goal is to match the approach to you.
Diagnosis
Your condition and symptom pattern
Anatomy
Your imaging and target accessibility
Health Profile
Overall health and risk profile
Your Goals
Adjustability, recovery time, long-term follow-up
Instructions for Patients
Use these guides alongside the instructions provided by your own surgical team. Contact that team about symptoms or recovery concerns.
Deep Brain Stimulation General info
Overview of the DBS procedure, what to expect on surgery day, and how programming works.
After Surgery (DBS) Post-op
Wound care, activity restrictions, recovery milestones, medication changes, and when to call your care team.
Preparing for Gamma Knife Before treatment
Eating and drinking before sedation, medicines to review with the team, what to bring and arranging a ride home.
Gamma Knife Treatment Day Treatment day
Arrive around 5:30 am. The head frame is placed with local anesthesia and sedation, followed by MRI, planning, quality checks and treatment. Most patients go home the same day.
More guides: Spinal Cord Stimulation · After Surgery (SCS)
When to Seek Urgent Care
- Call 911 in the United States, or your local emergency number elsewhere, now: for sudden weakness or numbness on one side; facial droop; new trouble speaking, seeing, walking, or staying awake; loss of consciousness; trouble breathing; a first seizure; a seizure lasting 5 minutes or longer; repeated seizures without recovery; or a sudden, severe headache or confusion.
- Contact your care team today: for fever, incision redness, swelling or drainage, medication side effects, worsening pain, or other concerns that are not immediately life-threatening.
If you're ever unsure, it's better to call your care team or seek emergency evaluation.