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The goal of restorative surgery is to repair neurological function and improve symptoms resulting from neurological disease. This medical specialty utilizes a number of devices that are implanted into the nervous system to bring about the desired affect by interrupting or blocking signals to the brain that cause symptoms.
- Deep brain stimulation.
- Cortical stimulation. This electrode device administers superficial stimulation to the surface of the brain — the cortex — to block brain signals causing symptoms
- Spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation. These devices are used to alleviate pain, numbness and related symptoms in the back, legs and other parts of the body.
- Intrathecal drug delivery pumps. These pumps are implanted into the body and deliver drugs into the nervous system in minute doses to maximize pain relief. Since drug delivery pumps are capable of delivering medication to the precise area of the body where it is needed, they can often substitute for oral medications that must be taken in much higher doses with the potential of side effects.
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