Neurosurgery (or neurological surgery) is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

Alshifa Hospital Neurosurgery department deals with all sorts of problems related to neuro & spine surgery-

BRAIN

  1. HEAD INJURY
  2. STROKE : BRAIN HEMORRAGE / ISCHEMIC
  3. DEMENTIA / PARKINSONISM and other degenerative disorders
  4. Tumors
  5. Infective : TB, MENINGITIS , ENCEPHALITIS etc

SPINE

  1. SPINAL CORD INJURY
  2. SPONDYLOSIS including listhesis
  3. Spinal tumors
  4. Spinal dysgraphism ( swelling in back since birth )
  5. Infective : POTTS SPINE ( TB) etc