Neurology
Neurology is a branch of medicine whose activities are aimed at studying, diagnosing, preventing and treating congenital and acquired diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurology studies the mechanisms of occurrence and development of pathologies, their symptoms.
A specialist who represents this
Neurology is a branch of medicine whose activities are aimed at the study, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of congenital and acquired diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurology studies the mechanisms of occurrence and development of pathologies, their symptoms.
A specialist who represents this field of medicine is a neurologist.
Symptoms that require you to see a neurologist:
- dizziness;
- chronic pain in the neck, back;
- chronic headaches;
- periodic loss of consciousness;
- numbness, weakness of the limbs;
- tinnitus;
- deterioration of hearing, vision, smell;
- sleep disorder, memory, concentration;
- convulsions, tics;
- general weakness;
- fast fatigue.
Diseases studied by neurology:
- neuralgia;
- neuritis;
- migraine, headache;
- vegetative-vascular dystonia;
- stroke;
- sclerosis;
- cerebral palsy;
- epilepsy;
- encephalitis;
- insomnia;
- Parkinson's disease;
- Meniere's disease;
- cerebral aneurysm;
- stuttering and others.
Diagnostics and therapeutic measures in neurology
To make a diagnosis and determine the cause of the pathology, a neurologist prescribes a number of diagnostic procedures:
- computer tomography of the brain and spinal cord;
- ultrasound of the brain;
- electroencephalography;
- electroneuromyography;
- radiography;
- duplex scanning of the main arteries and vessels of the head.
For the treatment of neurological diseases, drug therapy, non-drug methods (diets, aromatherapy, acupuncture), physiotherapy procedures, and surgical intervention are used.
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