Dr. Ernest Braxton, a neurosurgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, introduced a breakthrough procedure at Vail Health by completing a successful spine surgery with his patient awake. The ...

Are you able to stay awake while surgeons take a look inside your body? “Awake Surgery” is TLC’s newest limited series that only has three episodes. The show will premiere on Monday, December 14 ...

Neurosurgeon Dr Mazda Turel said in a video that brain surgery is mostly painless. Speaking on the thesecretsaucepod podcast, ...

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Selena Campione suffered from puzzling and debilitating symptoms for almost a year before she was scheduled to get brain surgery. "I never had any medical problems before in my life," Campione tells ...

For patients with Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, deep brain stimulation (DBS) can allow their tremors and seizures to abate somewhat. The procedure can improve the quality of life for these patients ...

The spinal surgery David B. underwent in November wasn't his first – but it was the first time he was awake for a procedure. "At first I thought 'Do I really want to be awake for this?'" said David.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Imagine being out of the country and needing life-saving surgery – it happened to one dad while on vacation with his two young boys. It turns out, the sun and fun combined with ...