Areas of expertise

• Stroke and Stroke Prevention
• Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIA's)
• Carotid artery Disease or Stenosis
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Seizure Disorders (Epilepsy)
• Headaches (Migraines, Tension Headaches, Cluster Headaches, Pseudotumor Cerebri, Temporal Arteritis, Occipital Neuralgias, etc.)
• Head Injuries and Neck Pain (Cervical Trauma (whiplash), Cervical Radiculopathy, cervical Degenerative Disease such as Spondylosis, Cervical Spinal Stenosis, etc.)
• Mid and Low Back Pain (Sciatica, Impingement on the Nerve Roots due to Disc Pathology, Bony Overgrowth, Thickened Ligaments, Spinal Stenosis, Nerve Root Damage or Radiculopathy, Sacroiliac Joint Arthritis)
• Pain Syndromes (Herpes Zoster or Shingles, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), Chronic Pain Syndromes of any type)
• Neuralgias (Trigeminal, Post-herpetic, or any Etiology)
• Dizziness (Vestibular Syndrome, Meniere's Disease, Cerebellar Disease, etc.)
• Parkinson's Disease With or Without Tremors, With or Without Dementia or any other associated symptoms
• Peripheral Neuropathies (Secondary to Diabetes, Alcohol, or any other cause)
• Hemiplegias, Paraplegias, Quadriplegias, Monoplegias; Brachial Plexus Palsy
• Organic Brain Disorder
• Myasthenia and Associated Syndromes
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Benign or Malignant Brain Tumors

Accurate and complex neurological testing is available in order to document and support the clinical diagnosis. The following tests are performed on the premises:

• Electroencephalogram, which is a recording of the brainwave activity.
• Visual Evoked Potentials, which record the response to visual sensory stimuli and outlines the visual pathways.
• Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials, records the response to auditory stimuli and outline the auditory pathways.
• Somatosensory Evoked Potentials, for the upper and lower extremities, which trace the sensory pathways and help to localize any abnormalities of the sensory system.
• Electromyography, measures the electrical activity of muscle fibers. It is performed by the physician.
• Nerve Conduction Studies, measures the speed of the electrical impulses through the sensory and motor peripheral nerves and allow us to quantitate degrees of severity of common neurological diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome and peripheral neuropathies.
• Color Doppler Studies, for the carotid and vertebral arteries or Angiodynography allow us to visualize the blood flow to the brain and to detect degrees of narrowing or obstruction of the extracranial vessels.
• Transcranial Doppler, detects the blood flow in the intracranial arteries and can detect narrowing or obstruction of these arteries.
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging uses powerful magnetic waves and computers in order to produce an image of the brain and spine as well as other parts of the body.
• Thermography, or medical infrared imaging which measures the skin temperature and delineates autonomic system abnormalities such as reflex sympathetic dystrophy, etc.

Physical Therapy is an integral part of the medical treatments in addition to prevention and drug therapies. The different methods of treatments used by Florida Neurologic Center are:

• Diathermy, or deep heat treatment, reduces pain and inflammation.
• Interferential Current Treatment is an electrical field treatment that reduces pain and inflammation, and stimulates healing.
• Ultrasound consists of high frequency sound waves, which are used to obtain therapeutic levels of heating within the body to stimulate circulation and the healing process and also reduce pain and inflammation.
• Cervical and Lumbar Tractions, it uses a pulling system in order to stretch the cervical and lumbar spine to try and relieve the pressure on the nerve roots.
• Decompression, Reduction and Stabilization, this treatment uses the most sophisticated mechanized, high tech pain reduction and healing system which allows a decrease in the intradiscal pressure resulting in shrinkage of the herniation and an improvement of the nerve root pressure.
• Neuromodulator Treatment, is used for stimulating the production of endorphins which are the patient's own pain fighting substances, and it is used in the treatment of muscle-contraction and migraine headaches.
• Functional Electrical Stimulation, is used for rehabilitation of paralyzed muscles and uses specific patterns and computerized programs to induce muscle contractions in patients with muscle atrophy or limb paralysis.
• Neuromuscular Therapy, is a highly therapeutic massage, which works with specific trigger points in the body, which are associated with pain.
• Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, is a pain management, which uses electrical impulses through electrodes placed on the skin to influence the underlying nerve fibers by trying to stop the pain messages that go to the central nervous system.