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Functional Neurosurgery

About Functional Neurosurgery

Dr. Shah specializes in functional neurosurgery and he is the ONLY Neurosurgeon in Gujarat and very few in India who have completed one year clinical fellowship in USA. focusing on
modifying brain and spinal cord activity to treat chronic neurological disorders that are resistant to medication. His expertise includes:

  • Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS): Procedure where electrodes are implanted in the brain to regulate electrical activity of the neurons. DBS is commonly used for Medically
    refractory Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia and Psychiatric conditions like treatment resistant depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tic disorder etc. Dr.
    Shah ensures comprehensive care from pre-operative evaluation to post-surgical follow-up, optimizing motor function and enhancing overall quality of life.
  • Focused Ultrasound: Without making an incision or putting an electrode, selected tremor patients can be treated on one side by delivering high frequency ultrasound to
    make a lesion by burning the involved neurons in the brain.
  • Spinal Cord Stimulation: Procedure done for patients having refractory back pain and Neuropathic pain like diabetic neuropathy not relieved by any medication.
  • Peripheral Nerve stimulation: Used for severe refractory pain in any part of the body where electrodes implanted along the peripheral nerve which modulates its activity.
  • Vagus nerve stimulation : used for the treatment of Depression, epilepsy and recent trials suggest beneficial effects on patients having hemiplegia/quadriplegia (limb weaknesses post stroke or trauma)

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