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I have headaches myself which
is one of the reasons I am very
passionate about treating headaches
and seeing headache patients. It
is not an arena a lot of doctors
want to get involved in. It can
be challenging, but through my
own experiences, I have come to
realize that you really need to
study...
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One of the things
that we have learned over time
is that headaches are best treated
in the context of a headache
clinic or a headache program.
This brings together multiple
disciplines including radiology,
physical therapy, and other areas
of expertise that can be brought
to bear to treat whatever... |
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The headache center
at MidAmerica Neuroscience Institute
provides something that you cannot
get at the office of your local
neurologist, internist, or family
practitioner. As good as they
may be the headache care we provide
is more in depth. We have in
place programs and protocols
to treat... |
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At MidAmerica
Neuroscience Institute, we have
a memory loss center. Why do
that, why have a dedicated center
or a dedicated area within a
practice to deal with memory
loss. The answer is quite simple.
Memory disorders are very common
and it is often confusing for
families and patients who are
experiencing memory disorder
or other... |
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I am often asked
who should come to a memory disorders
center and why should they bother.
The answer is that if you have
a family member, a spouse, a
parent, who you feel is not thinking
the same as they used to, something
has changed that you do not like
about their behavior, their ability
to remember, their ability to
perhaps handle the... |
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You should never
depend on your primary care physician
to pick up on subtle changes
in your loved on and make a diagnosis
of dementia in a routine office
visit. My wife is a primary care
physician and her time is so
limited that she must focus on
the complaint brought before
her in an individual visit. So
unless you go to your regular
family |
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One of the cool
things about the memory disorders
center at MidAmerica Neuroscience
Institute is that we are involved
in clinical research. We are
the first kids on the block to
get our hands on brand new medications
which may turn out to be amazingly
beneficial to certain disease
processes such as Alzheimers.
We are on the cutting |
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If you have ever
had a health concern and your
family doctor told you to see
a specialist, then it is likely
that you have experienced the
long wait to get that first appointment
and diagnosis. I am Dr. John
Hunter of MidAmerica Neuroscience
Institute in Kansas City. We
have intentionally structured... |
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I'm Dr. Rowe, head of the
MidAmerica Neuroscience Institute.
People ask me sometimes why I
wanted to become a neurologist
and I tell them "Well, I
wanted to find out how the nervous
system works so I could help
patients with nervous system
disease." You treat people
and you don't treat tests, but ... |
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I was fortunate to go to
Duke Medical School and to Johns
Hopkins where I was trained in
neurology. I spent time at the
NIH in research and was in academic
medicine for several years before
I decided that I could probably
have a little more hands on,
have a little more control over
the quality of ... |
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Multiple sclerosis is a tough
disease, but there is basically
three things that you need to
do when you are taking care of
patients with multiple sclerosis.
We have learned this in our MS
Center through extensive research
and follow-up of patients over
many years. One, you need to
be picky .... |
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Sleep medicine is one of
the most prevalent, most common
problems in our country. We have
seemed to develop a macho kind
of culture around being able
to perform without sleep, even
though we know that from all
kinds of psychology experiments
that if a person does not get
enough sleep... |
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You know that it is fun to
practice neurology and to see
patients in the setting like
ours. We are a fully integrated
neurologic care facility. We
emphasize the four different
areas, but in order to do that,
you have to understand imaging,
you have to understand neurophysiology,
you... |
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I am Dr. Rowe, head of the
MidAmerica Neuroscience Institute.
I am also head of our MS Center.
Today I would like to talk with
you about if youre an MS patient
why I believe you should be followed
and treated in an MS center with
no disrespect to my colleagues
who also treat MS ... |
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Patients sometimes say to
me in disbelief "I can't
believe I didn't have to wait
for three or four months to
see you" or to see someone
in our institute. I cant explain
why wait lists for neurologists
are so long. I know there is
a great need for neurologists
in our subspecialty culture
of medicine... |
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