About the Institute
At the Mercy Regional Neurosurgery Center, we provide care for patients affected by disorders of the brain and spine.
Care for our patient's well being is our first priority. From the initial consultation and review with your referring physician to treatment and post-treatment care, our staff of medical professionals is dedicated to your recovery and return to an active lifestyle.
Our neurosurgery treats diseases related to the brain, spinal cord and nerve roots.
We offer comprehensive care for:
- Ruptured discs
- Arthritic changes causing compression of the nerve root and spinal cord
- Nerve compression
- Injuries to the brain and spinal cord
- Bleeding within the skull, brain and spine
- Tumors of the pituitary gland and hearing nerve
- Abnormalities of spinal fluid flow
These complex problems require state-of-the-art equipment and technology. We use:
- Minimally invasive neurosurgery
- MRI diagnostic system
- Siemens 3-D computerized tomography
- StealthStation TREON computer-assisted surgical navigation system
Our StealthStation computer-assisted surgery system increases our surgeons' accuracy during delicate and complicated procedures on the brain and spine. This minimally invasive system" sees" inside the body where surgeons can't, or would have difficulty seeing, and allows smaller incisions for faster healing and a shorter hospital stay.
A neurosurgery success story
Through a procedure called decompression and fusion, Mercy's neurosurgeons use state-of-the-art surgical approaches to relieve pain, weakness, numbness and tingling caused by pinched nerves, degenerative spine disease and herniated (slipped/ruptured) discs.
In the last seven years, 95% of our fusion patients reported improvement in symptoms, and 98.5% of those patients had complete fusions one year after surgery.
Fusion success often equates to long-term symptom relief and improvement, which greatly reduces the need for more surgery.
