Surgical/Diagnostic Procedures

This link has been provided to inform new patients, existing patients, as well as the community of Kern County about certain procedures carried out in this office.  Futhermore, at the bottom of this page you will find a list of Neurosurgical Conditions our office manages. These practices whether surgical, invasive or non-invasive, conservative, and diagnostic procedures are categoriezed below which are done not only at BNSI, but carried out by our physicians and PA's at our affiliated institutions and hospitals.

Neuro: Surgeries

-Anterior Cervical Diskectomy/Cervical fusion with bone graft and plate
-Cervical fusion with bone graft and plate
-Complex Spine Surgery
-Cervical Corpectomy
-Cervical Fusion with cages
-Cervical Laminectomy
-Craniectomy
-Craniotomy
-Cranioplasty
-Kyphoplasty
-Laminoforaminotomy
-Lumbar Decompressive laminectomy
-Lumbar Corpectomy
-Lumbar Microdiscectomy
-Microsurgery with tubular retractors
-Neurolasty:
     *Carpal Tunnel release
     *Ulnar nerve--decompression/transposition
-Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation
-Sterotactic Brain Biopsy
-Thoracic Corpectomy
-Thoracic Fusion
-VP Shunt

Neuro: Diagnostics

-Brainstem Auditroy Evoked Responses (BAER)
-Chemodenervation
-Electroencephlogram (EEG)
-Electromyography
-Epidural Steroid injections
-Evoked Potential (EP)
-Intervention SPine Pain Management
     *Selective nerve root injections
     *Trigger point injections
-Nerve Conduction Studies: Motor/Sensory

Neurosurgical Conditions
(some of the things we treat for)

-Aneurysms
-Brain Tumors
-Bulging Discs
-Carotid Blockages
-Carpal Tunnel
-Cervical Disk
-Epilepsy
-Fractures
-Hydrocephalus
-Instability of Spine
-Pediatric Neurosurgery*
-Pinched Nerves
-Ruptured/Herniated disc induced by injury
-Spinal Chord
-Stenosis
-Sterotactic Brain Biopsy
-Ulnar Nerve Entrapment
-Vascular Blockages