Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch: Neurosurgery department

Thanks to the latest medical technologies, the neurosurgeons at Helios Berlin-Buch Hospital will help patients with diseases of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves.

Spine treatment

German neurosurgeons are of the opinion that about 90% of degenerative diseases of the spine are better treated conservatively than surgically. Only if there is no result from physiotherapy and pain reliever, they carry out:

• minimally invasive procedures,
• microsurgical procedures,
• open surgical procedures.

Various therapies

With the help of neurosurgical operations, complaints from back pain, herniated discs and spinal tumors can be relieved. It performs the TESSYS endoscopic procedure and offers various types of spine stabilization and fusion procedures.

Experienced neurosurgeons perform intervertebral disc prosthetics with the installation of artificial intervertebral discs.

Periradicular therapy (PRT)

PRT relieves chronic pain in the cervical and lumbar spine. Medicines are injected directly into the area around the affected nerve root. It uses the anti-inflammatory drug cortisone at a very low dosage. It eases inflammatory changes:

• edema,
• pain,
• violation of blood circulation in the nerve.

PRT is performed up to three times and takes 15-20 minutes.

Below are other innovative spine treatments offered by Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch:

• dynamic interspinous stabilization,
• endoscopic disc surgery,
• surgery of the posterior interbody fusion (PLIF),
• an artificial disc for the cervical spine.