Dr. Vokshoor's neurosurgical team delivers the highest level of care with compassion and empathy. Through a fusion of scientific innovation and surgical expertise, we have composed state-of-the-art algorithms to treat the full spectrum of adult brain and spinal disorders.
My name is Anna, age 61, Asian. I lived with intermittent back pain for 9 years, was physically active for most of that time. The pain increased in intensity and duration with each passing year until the pain finally limited my ability to sit, stand or walk without a shooting, stabbing pain in the lower back down to my toes which had become numb 24/7. I had tried chiropractic decompression, acupuncture, physical therapy, yoga, pain medication without relief. Surgery seemed the only answer.
Read more...You were able to schedule surgery to take place just 10 days after my initial office visit, and I felt better immediately after surgery. I was back to work the following week. A month after surgery, my wife and I were on vacation on Madeira Island, hiking anywhere from 8 to 12 miles a day! It felt so great to feel great again!...
Read moreI wanted to write an old fashioned thank you as the circumstances we have journeyed through together deserves more than an email. I am so deeply grateful to be to be in your care, to receive your talent and skill, and intentions directed solely to help ease my pain and improve the quality of my life. You have proven to be man of great integrity and humility – a quality rarely found in your profession. And your warmth and kindness are inestimable. I’ve seen too many Neurologists and Neurosurgeons and know of what I speak...
Read moreDear Dr. Vokshoor,
I wanted to tell you how grateful I am to have met you. For months I was practically unable to walk, crawled into hospital emergency rooms on four different occasions, and despite trying everything from acupuncture, chiropractic methods, massage therapies, numerous prescription pain medications, weekly pain shots and eventually three epidurals, I continued to live with chronic spinal pain.
Read moreWhen people think of back surgery they cannot help but also think of the imminent risk of serious side effects or even paralysis. Back surgery does not have to be a frightful journey toward the downward spiral of slow physical deterioration. Getting a correct and comprehensive diagnosis as well as finding a knowledgeable, experienced and highly skilled surgeon, such as Dr. Amir Vokshoor, is the key to excellent results.
Read more…there is an intangibility which is gifted to a few lucky individuals. It's not measurable or quantifiable, or readily even definable… you have that. You engender a feeling of trust, a feeling of "We are in this together…"
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