By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine A woman in her early sixties comes into my office holding a folded MRI report. She is calm at the front desk but unspools by the time she sits down. Her primary care doctor ordered the scan after a few weeks of...
Demystifying Brain Myths: What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Neurosurgery Movies and television have long been fascinated with the human brain. From dramatic emergency surgeries to miraculous awakenings and sudden personality changes, neurosurgery is often portrayed as...
The Role of Nutrition in Brain Health: Foods That Fuel Your Mind As a neurosurgeon, I often see patients when neurological problems have already reached a critical point—brain tumors, spinal cord compression, stroke, or degenerative disease. While surgery and medical...
Dr. Symeon Missios presents at the 3rd Annual Conference of Advances in Comprehensive Stroke Care Surgery for Ischemic Stroke: The Impact of Decompressive Hemicraniectomy on Post-Stroke outcomes.
Back surgery doesn’t have to be scary. Here’s a brief video explaining the most common Surgical Treatments of lower back pain. Surgical treatment of low back pain...
Have you been having back issues? Click on the image above to watch this video explaining Basic information and steps toward healing for Lower Back Pain.
