Kurt Schroeder, MD

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Center for Neurosciences, East River Road, Tucson, AZ, USA

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Dr. Schroeder earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado and completed his internship in general surgery at the University of Michigan, where he also completed his residency in neurological surgery. Dr. Schroeder was a clinical fellow in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Schroeder is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He held the position of Chief of Neurosurgery (1989-1991) and Chief of Surgery (1992-1994) at Tucson Medical Center and is the Chief of Neurosurgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He has been with the Center for Neurosciences since 1993.

Education

  • MD: University Of Colorado School Of Medicine

  • Internship/Residency: University of Michigan

  • Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Neurological Surgery

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Lumbar Stenosis – Potential Interventions

There were some other intervention surgically that have been tried and are currently, let’s say being thought about. And one of those is to take those patients and sort of prop them forward so that...

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Lumbar Stenosis – Surgery

Probably the definitive treatment for Lumbar stenosis is going to be surgical, and the tried and true treatment has been what’s called decompressive laminectomy. This involves taking this circle of the spine with the Vertebra...

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Lumbar Stenosis – Physical Therapy

Physical therapy for Lumbar stenosis. It’s interesting, it was within the last six months a year, marvelous paper in Spine, which is a journal that crosses all sorts of different specialties, chiropractic, physical therapy, neurosurgery,...

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Lumbar Stenosis – Diagnostics

But if the anti-inflammatories fail, then the next step is the diagnostic tests and that generally in a patient who’s a nonsmoker, non-diabetic without hyperlipidemia is going to be an MRI of the lumbar spine....

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Lumbar Stenosis – Treatment

So spinal stenosis and its treatment. The first treatment is simply anti-inflammatories and a fair number of people will actually get better with anti-inflammatories. Again, it’s Ibuprofen, two or three, maybe three or four times...

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Lumbar Stenosis – Symptoms

Generally people start having the symptoms that, gee, I’m having troubles getting through Costco. I can’t get through the grocery store without a grocery cart. I’m cutting up the vegetables and I got to sit...

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Lower Back Pain – Conclusion

Thank you for watching and listening to this discussion today of lower back pain and all its different facets. Of course it’s not totally complete, but hopefully it’s helped you and you’ve gotten something out...

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Lower Back Pain – Organizations

Well, you’d think there ought to be organizations for low back pain, but I don’t know of any really that I can think of off the top of my head. And part of one of...

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Lower Back Pain – Insufficient Insurance

Then of course we have people who come in who either may not be insured at all or maybe under insured. And one of the things that really isn’t talked about much even with the...

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Lower Back Pain – Potential Insurance Issues

The problem with some of this is is that someone doing the deciding may not be well versed in this particular medical problem. They may be a lay person who’s occupied a desk at an...

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