This week’s blog will completely focus on Thanksgiving and skip the roundabout link to neurosurgery we usually try to include. “….and he realized as he spoke that the truth was slipping away from him, and soon he would no longer know what the truth was.” Paraphrased from Leo Tolstoy’s, War and Peace How did you…
Rocky Mountain Brain & Spine Institute has previously published blogs on stem cell therapies for back symptoms. If you haven’t read those blogs, here’s the quick “Cliff’s Notes”… stem cells don’t work. However we have always given the caveat that “if” stem cells were ever to work, then it would be a great treatment option…
The Berlin Wall separated East and West Germany from 1961 to 1989. Following World War II in 1945, what remained of Germany was divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and the USSR/ Soviet Union. Berlin was also subdivided into 4 sections, however, the city was fully within…
A tumor occurs when a cell starts rapidly replicating in an uncontrolled fashion. In some cancers in the body, as the tumor forms, the normal surrounding cells are just pushed to the side. While the patient may succumb to cancer because it metastasizes to too many areas, an individual tumor site may be amenable to…