Neurologist

A Neurologist is a highly specialized doctor who diagnoses and treats conditions affecting the nervous system. Neurology is a science with many areas of specialization. It is common for a neurological professional to have an extremely narrow focus to their practice. When it comes to nerve related back pain, a neurological doctor is often the preferred care provider for many patients.

Neurologist

Neurologist Training

A Neurological doctor typically has 11 to 14 years of education and training in both general medicine, neurology and their individual specialized branch of nerve study. Most neurological professionals have an individual area in which they focus most of their practice. There are professionals who specialize in the brain and central nervous system. Other doctors specialize in peripheral nerves. Neurological doctors can also specialize in nerves contained in the autonomic system. Furthermore, there are deeper fields of specialization including: strokes, speech, sports related, spinal, hand, epilepsy and other specific neurological diseases.

Neurologist Treatment

Neurological physicians most frequently believe that neuralgia comes from a physical structural source which can be treated by mechanical or chemical means. Pain management drugs and back surgery are the 2 most common treatments provided by the majority of neurologists.

Nerves are the most sensitive tissues contained in our bodies. They are also the cells that are MOST SUSCEPTIBLE to oxygen deprivation pain. Neurologists were actually among the doctors who discovered the physical evidence left by ischemia in the nucleus of nerve cells. It is a shame that most neurologists do not include ischemia in their list of common back pain diagnoses�

Recommendation on Neurologists

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a neurologist. This shows that at one time, neurological professionals DID realize the connection between both the physical brain and the nervous system, as well as the emotional brain and the nervous system. It is a shame that this knowledge has fallen out of favor�

Physical nerve problems can be the work of some injury, disease or degenerative process. However, the majority of all treatment resistant cases of nerve related pain are actually caused or perpetuated by simple psychologically induced oxygen deprivation. This problem is an epidemic that continues to grow year by year. The answer is for these brilliant neurological professionals to use common sense and see that sometimes the problem is indeed psychological. If and when this change occurs, common back pain will be a thing of the past�

Neurologist to Back Pain Home page 2/9/07 Revised 6/11/08