Other specialists clost to CA? Your experience?

[Guest guest]

I have not posted for months anywhere. I went to TCI Dec'07 and was

diagnosed with:

Functional Cranial Settling - C2 instability

Chiari 1 - due to small posterior fossa, minimal herniation

Syringomyelia - thin slit

C5-6 Disc Herniation touching Cord

Tethered Cord

Hypertrophied Styloid Process (that I think is causing my Trigeminal

Neuralgia recently dx'd)

Other skull & bone anomolies, etc. Too long to list.

I never went back for Invasive Cervical Traction or the TC surgery.

Now I can't afford to go from CA to NY especially alone, as was

always the case. I did not get help at UCLA in 2006. My questions:

1. Is there another NS specialist at UCLA other than the one listed?

2. How is Dr. Oro in CO?

3. Any other new specialist on west coast beside Dr. E in Washington?

4. Any NS referrals for Northern CA?

Any feedback would be appreciated. I do not even have a NL. My PCP

has been basically managing my pain. Only now I need to start this

again because the pain & dysfunction is getting much worse...and I

must be prepared. (Eventual craniocervical fusion is up the road for

me.)

[Guest guest]

,

I have been wanting to share this doctor's name here and now is a

good reason to do it. I have a friend from Pismo Beach, CA who went

to specialist after specialist about her neck issues. I've talked to

her a lot and her issues ring so true and sometimes even parallel my

own.

she finally went to a doctor in San Fran whom she thought was

excellent in his manner, caring, and knowledge. When she told me what

he'd told her, it sounded very sensible and in line with what we've

learned from the experts here..

His name is Dr. Bruce McCormack, director of a neuro-spine institute

in SFO. Here is a link for him:

http://www.spinefracture.org/about_us.html

I found this info on the internet about him:

Bruce M. McCormack, M.D.

2320 Sutter St., #202

San Francisco, California 94115

Phone:

and this link is more info and a pic of him:

http://www.cpmc.org/ProviderSearch/?

sitecfg=49 & action=providerdetail & masterid=10994 & isLevelOne=1

I'm not sure if he'd have knowledge of CM, but he might be a good one

for TC (???)

Hope this helps

Virginia

>

> I have not posted for months anywhere. I went to TCI Dec'07 and was

> diagnosed with:

>

> Functional Cranial Settling - C2 instability

> Chiari 1 - due to small posterior fossa, minimal herniation

> Syringomyelia - thin slit

> C5-6 Disc Herniation touching Cord

> Tethered Cord

> Hypertrophied Styloid Process (that I think is causing my

Trigeminal

> Neuralgia recently dx'd)

> Other skull & bone anomolies, etc. Too long to list.

>

> I never went back for Invasive Cervical Traction or the TC surgery.

> Now I can't afford to go from CA to NY especially alone, as was

> always the case. I did not get help at UCLA in 2006. My questions:

>

> 1. Is there another NS specialist at UCLA other than the one listed?

> 2. How is Dr. Oro in CO?

> 3. Any other new specialist on west coast beside Dr. E in

Washington?

> 4. Any NS referrals for Northern CA?

>

> Any feedback would be appreciated. I do not even have a NL. My PCP

> has been basically managing my pain. Only now I need to start this

> again because the pain & dysfunction is getting much worse...and I

> must be prepared. (Eventual craniocervical fusion is up the road for

> me.)

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

I have been wanting to share this doctor's name here and now is a

good reason to do it. I have a friend from Pismo Beach, CA who went

to specialist after specialist about her neck issues. I've talked to

her a lot and her issues ring so true and sometimes even parallel my

own.

she finally went to a doctor in San Fran whom she thought was

excellent in his manner, caring, and knowledge. When she told me what

he'd told her, it sounded very sensible and in line with what we've

learned from the experts here..

His name is Dr. Bruce McCormack, director of a neuro-spine institute

in SFO. Here is a link for him:

http://www.spinefracture.org/about_us.html

I found this info on the internet about him:

Bruce M. McCormack, M.D.

2320 Sutter St., #202

San Francisco, California 94115

Phone:

and this link is more info and a pic of him:

http://www.cpmc.org/ProviderSearch/?

sitecfg=49 & action=providerdetail & masterid=10994 & isLevelOne=1

I'm not sure if he'd have knowledge of CM, but he might be a good one

for TC (???)

Hope this helps

Virginia

>

> I have not posted for months anywhere. I went to TCI Dec'07 and was

> diagnosed with:

>

> Functional Cranial Settling - C2 instability

> Chiari 1 - due to small posterior fossa, minimal herniation

> Syringomyelia - thin slit

> C5-6 Disc Herniation touching Cord

> Tethered Cord

> Hypertrophied Styloid Process (that I think is causing my

Trigeminal

> Neuralgia recently dx'd)

> Other skull & bone anomolies, etc. Too long to list.

>

> I never went back for Invasive Cervical Traction or the TC surgery.

> Now I can't afford to go from CA to NY especially alone, as was

> always the case. I did not get help at UCLA in 2006. My questions:

>

> 1. Is there another NS specialist at UCLA other than the one listed?

> 2. How is Dr. Oro in CO?

> 3. Any other new specialist on west coast beside Dr. E in

Washington?

> 4. Any NS referrals for Northern CA?

>

> Any feedback would be appreciated. I do not even have a NL. My PCP

> has been basically managing my pain. Only now I need to start this

> again because the pain & dysfunction is getting much worse...and I

> must be prepared. (Eventual craniocervical fusion is up the road for

> me.)

>

>

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