Brain, Spine and Nervous System

Acute Spinal Cord Injury

Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) is a traumatic injury that results in a bruise, partial tear, or a complete tear in the spinal cord.

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, neuro-degenerative ailment that occurs when nerve cells in the brain die often resulting in symptoms such as impaired memory, thinking and behavior.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal neurological disorder characterised by progressive deterioration of nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain.

Aphasia

Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage in a specific area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension and leaves a person unable to communicate effectively with others.

Ataxia

Ataxia causes a failure of muscle control in the arms and legs which may result in a lack of balance,coordination and possibly a disturbance in walk.

Bell's Palsy

Bell's palsy is an unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis that begins suddenly and worsens over three to five days. This condition results from damage to the 7th (facial) cranial nerve and pain and distress usually occurs on one side of the face or head.

Brain Tumours

A brain tumour is an abnormal growth of tissue in the brain. The tumour either originates in the brain itself or come from another part of the body and travel to the brain (metastasize). Brain tumours may be classified as either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) depending on their nature.

Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is long-standing pain that persists beyond the usual recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition, such as arthritis.

Craniosynostosis (Craniofacial Anomaly)

Craniosynostosis is a condition in which sutures close too early causing problems with normal brain and skull growth.

Epilepsy and Seizures

Epilepsy is a neurological condition involving the brain that makes people more susceptible to having seizures.

Gastroparesis

Gastroparesis is a stomach disorder in which the stomach takes too long in emptying its contents.

Gaucher's Disease

Gaucher disease is an inherited Lysosomal storage disorder.

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Guillain-Barré syndrome is a neurological disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system.

Head Injury

A head injury is a broad term that describes a vast array of injuries that occur to the scalp, skull, brain,and underlying tissue and blood vessels in the head.

Headache

A headache is pain or discomfort in the head or face area.

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

Landau-Kleffner syndrome (also called infantile acquired aphasia, acquired epileptic aphasia or aphasia with convulsive disorder) is a language disorder characterized by the gradual or sudden loss of the ability to use or comprehend spoken language.

Menieres Disease

Ménière's disease is a balance disorder caused by an abnormality found in a section of the inner ear called the labyrinth.

Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. It is thought to be anautoimmune disorder. It is an unpredictable condition that can be relatively benign, disabling, ordevastating.

Muscular Contraction and Tension Headaches

Tension headaches are the most common type of headache. Stress and muscle tension are often factors in tension type headaches.

Myasthenia Gravis

Myasthenia gravis is a complex, autoimmune disorder in which antibodies destroy neuromuscular connections. This causes problems with the voluntary muscles of the body, especially the eyes, mouth,throat, and limbs.

Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a chronic, genetic neurological sleep disorder with no known cause. It involves the body's central nervous system.

Neurocutaneous Syndromes

Neurocutaneous syndrome is a broad term for a group of neurologic disorders that can cause tumors to grow inside the brain, spinal cord, organs, skin and skeletal bones.

Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease is a slowly progressing, degenerative disease that is associated with symptoms such as tremor or trembling of the arms, jaw, legs and face, stiffness or rigidity of the limbs and trunk,bradykinesia (slowness of movement), postural instability or impaired balance and coordination.

Restless Legs Syndrome

Restless legs syndrome is a sleep disorder in which a person experiences unpleasant sensations in the legs.

Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is a serious breathing disorder that causes brief interruptions of breathing during sleep.

Snoring

Snoring is the sound that occurs during sleep when flow of air is obstructed in the area where the tongue and upper throat meet the soft palate and uvula.

Spasmodic Dysphonia

Spasmodic dysphonia also called laryngeal dystonia is a voice disorder. It is characterized by involuntary spasms or movements in the muscles of the larynx, which causes the voice to break and have a tight,strained or strangled sound.

Stroke

Stroke also known as brain attack, occurs when blood flow to the brain is disrupted.

Stuttering

Stuttering sometimes referred to as stammering or diffluent speech, is a speech disorder.

Vascular Headaches and Migraines

This throbbing type of headache is distinguished by the fact that symptoms other than pain occur with the headache.