Enjoy the heart warming story of Joanna, who after suffering some strange symptoms, discovered she had a tumor growing in her spine.
Her local doctor recommended a neurosurgeon, who he said “wrote the book” on her condition: Dr. Paul McCormick, director of The Spine Hospital at The Neurological Institute of New York.
Watch the video and find out what happened after Joanna took her doctor’s advice. Hint…her story has a very happy ending.
Learn more about Dr. McCormick at his bio page here.
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In his latest installment to the Total Spine series of instructional videos, Dr. Paul McCormick describes retropleural thoracotomy, a surgical technique used to treat complex spinal conditions of the thoracic and lumbar spine. “Retropleural thoracotomy is an important...
https://www.neurosurgery.columbia.edu/news/columbia-neurosurgeons-named-new-yorks-super-doctor
Synovial Cysts are a benign and fairly common condition in adult patients. They can arise in most joints throughout the body. In most cases they are asymptomatic but in the spine they can enlarge to produce severe spinal stenosis and pressure on the spinal nerves...
Dr. McCormick was a featured speaker at the recent 37th Annual Joint Spine Section Annual Spine Summit meeting held in San Diego. He presented at the Innovative Technology Special Session: Operative Video Segments. His presentation was entitled “Intramedullary Tumor,...
