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Troy D. Payner, MD, speaks to health reporter Anne-Marie Tiernon from WTHR-TV Channel 13 News about aneurysms and the new fluorescence dye technology used by neurosurgeons at Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group to allow them to visualize blood flowing through the blood vessels in the brain. Seeing blood flow will tell the surgeon if the procedure used to block blood from the aneurysm is indeed working and also if the blood vessels around the aneurysms are still receiving blood to them. Either way, this allows the surgeon to ensure the surgery is a complete success before ending the surgery.

Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol was featured in a story by CNN that told about Dr. Cohen’s surgery on a teenager who had a brain tumor. Dr. Cohen used procedures called an awake craniotomy—brain surgery when the patient is awake during it—and brain mapping in order to ensure that vital structures in the brain were not affected by surgery. The patient is healthy and is now attending college.

In this news segment from 2006, Eric Potts, MD, a neurosurgery-trained spine surgeon with Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group, explains an advanced procedure he performed on a patient with debilitating back pain. Click here.

Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group (ING) was featured in the television special, Modern Healing, shown locally on WISH-TV, CBS, in June. ING was the only medical group offering care for back and neck pain to be featured on the show. Eric Potts, MD, neurosurgery-trained spine surgeon at ING, and Derron Wilson, MD, an ING interventional pain management physician, were both interviewed during the show that featured their mutual patient Karrie Shambarger. Karrie shared during the show that she is a radiologic technologist and because of her medical background, she knew she wanted to be seen by a neurosurgeon for her neck pain, due to neurosurgeons' extensive training to understand the how the brain, spinal cord and nervous system all function together. She was first diagnosed with neck problems seven years ago and had surgery done by Dr. Potts. When she woke up one day recently with a new neck problem and couldn't move her neck without severe pain, she called Dr. Potts immediately, who recommended she see his colleague, Dr. Wilson, for pain management options that did not involve surgery.

Stacia Matthews, health reporter for WRTV-TV Channel 6 News, sought out ING neurosurgeon Jean-Pierre Mobasser, MD, to comment about the arrival in Indianapolis of the Migun massage beds. Dr. Mobasser specializes in the treatment of back and neck pain and complex spine procedures needed as a result of trauma and other accidents.

Modern technology (e.g. the operating microscope and advanced surgical instrumentation) has transformed the surgical management of problems of the spine. This video explains more about these revolutionary developments.

After a nationwide search for help, Indianapolis residents Tom and Carrie Douglas sought out Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group to treat their 20-month old son, Cole, who suffered from 30-40 seizures per day since shortly after his birth. Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol, a neurosurgeon with Indianapolis Group, performed a hemispherotomy on Cole, to disconnect one half of the brain from the other, in an attempt to stop the seizures. Today, Cole, who previously tested at the development age of a three month old, is a healthy boy who is seizure free and who recently celebrated his second birthday, which his parents held as a fundraiser for the National Hemispherectomy Foundation, as a way to help other families in similar circumstances.

After the arrests of a mother and her boyfriend charged in the death of her ten-month old daughter, Dr. Michael Turner comments on WRTV-TV Channel 6 News about the effects of shaking a baby and how this caused the death of the child.

Strokes and ruptured aneurysms can be life-threatening events. Our neurosurgeons are experts in the recognition and management of vascular brain injuries. However, prevention is ultimately the goal, not better treatment. Learn more about what you can do to prevent these problems and what can be done when they do occur.