Justin Brown, MD

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Paralysis Center, Parkman Street, Boston, MA, USA

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Justin M. Brown, MD is a board-certified neurosurgeon and pioneer in Reconstructive Neurosurgery – reversing paralysis in all conditions of neurological loss. Dr. Brown has received widespread international recognition for his work. He is an avid educator and a regular featured speaker at medical symposiums around the world. Dr. Brown earned his medical degree from the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia and completed a surgical internship and Neurosurgical residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Following, based on his desire to understand these problems from the perspective of another surgical specialty, Dr. Brown completed a peripheral nerve surgery fellowship in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Then, in collaboration with a notable pioneer in Restorative Neurology, Milan R. Dimitrijevic, MD, PhD, he helped establish the International Society for Restorative Neurology. Dr. Brown is also a member of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve, The American Association for Hand Surgery, the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerve, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Pan-African Association of Christian Surgeons, and Associate Professor for the Brachial Plexus International School.

Dr. Justin Brown currently serves as the Director of Reconstructive Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is the founder and Director of The Paralysis Center.

Education

  • MD: Eastern Virginia School of Medicine

  • Residency: Baylor College of Medicine

  • Fellowship: Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis

  • BS: Vanderbilt University

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Neurological Surgery

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Hemiplegia – Treatment Steps

There are two primary effects to these procedures. One is the muscle that is being targeted has it’s direct and immediate effect and the other is a more global effect of relaxing the entire limb...

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Hemiplegia – Stroke

A stroke results in an injury to the brain, either from loss of blood flow to a portion of the brain or from bleeding into the brain itself destroying tissue as a result. So our...

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Hemiplegia – Risks

So risks of undertaking such procedures are one causing excessive weakness. Sometimes we have to take quite a bit of nerve to reduce the spasticity. And in doing so we may relax the muscles so...

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Hemiplegia – Recovery

Reconstructive surgery after stroke is just a small part of the entire recovery process that’s involved in achieving the best results and function. The patient wanted to go immediate stroke care in the hospital setting....

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Hemiplegia – Patient Experience

When a patient is referred for possible reconstructive surgery for their hemiplegic limb, they will come to see us in the clinic and often the surgeons or the surgeons with the therapists together will perform...

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Hemiplegia – Non-Candidates

Some patients who would not be a candidate for these procedures would be those with severe, intractable pain, those are the significant medical comorbidities, those in whom it’s unsafe to come off their blood thinning...

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Hemiplegia – Leg and Arm Treatment

The same dysfunction that takes place in the foot can take place further up the leg, so sometimes the patient’s legs, will scissor. That is the adductors where muscles that pull the legs towards one...

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Hemiplegia – Insurance

The reconstructive procedures involved in restoring function after a stroke or Hemiplegia are typically covered by insurance, but it will be important for you to check with your particular insurance carrier to be sure that...

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Hemiplegia – Functionality

So these procedures do not result in a complete cure that is the hemiplegic limb that has been repaired doesn’t look identical to the way it looked before surgery or to the other limb, but...

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Hemiplegia – Foot Treatment

So when a patient suffers hemiplegia the body can do some recovering on its own over time. The brain develops what’s called plasticity and it can find other pathways to accomplish some of the tasks...

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