NEUROLOGIC SERVICES

Available in my office, by appointment

Office Consultations.

 

History, physical examination, treatment recommendations. Usually takes an hour or more.

 

Hospital Consultations.

 

Emergency Room, Intensive Care and Ward evaluations for neurologic problems. These are usually requested by hospital based doctors but, HMO exclusivities aside, there is no reason patients and family can't ask for whoever they want.

 

Medical Legal Consultations.

 

Neurologists have many medical-legal responsibilities from supporting a driver's license application to evaluating the extent of injuries. I began practice somewhat skeptical of patients who had been injured in car accidents because they had lawsuits. I'm definitely more sympathetic after 15 years. Almost nobody wants to be in a car accident. Almost everyone has to take legal action of some kind or another. And concussions and whiplash cause real syndromes that follow consistent patterns. Affiliated with IME.

 

Workman's Compensation

Electroencephalography (EEG).

 

A totally safe, relatively inexpensive, screening test for epilepsy or encephalopathy, i.e. memory or other higher cognitive disturbances.

Meet Ron Concepcion, EEG tech par excellence.

 

Electrodiagnostic testing (EMG/NCV).

 

Nerve conduction (NCV) and Electromyography (EMG) have limited and specific applications. They must be interpreted in the overall clinical context. Require common sense, experience and respect for the patient's sensibilities. Moderately subjective.

Physical therapy.

 

After a diagnosis is established, treatment from a modern physician comes down to 1) talk i.e. education and advice 2) medication 3) surgery 4) PHYSICAL THERAPY. I have been proud and gratified to offer quality massage therapy in my office for more than ten years.

 

Two experienced Certified Massage Therapists:

Mary Walters...

and

 

Sharon Harris

 

Certified Massage Therapists

get results.

Massage has ancient roots: the word itself derives either from the Arabic verb "mass," to touch or the Greek word "massein," to knead.

As ancient and simple as the application of a soothing hand, this modality is "discovered" every six months only to be forgotten again for more capital intensive revenue generating high technology.

Old fashioned hands-on (we don't offer the feet-on technique illustrated above) Massage Therapy is often just as therapeutic as set-it-and-forget it gadgets. Although I use them too - specifically transcutaneous stimulators.

 

But getting back to massage, I've learned something since medical school: gentle manual neck traction (not twisting) is one of the only truly therapeutic approaches to Benign Cervicogenic Vertigo.

 

 

John M. Friedberg, M.D.

3000 Colby Street

Suite 305

Berkeley, CA 94706

510 644 2282