We are pleased to announce this intracranial hypotension research grant to Principal Investigator, Timothy Amrhein, MD and Co-Investigator, Linda Gray Leithe, MD, neuroradiologists at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Development of a Novel Flexible Needle...
Katie’s spontaneous spinal CSF leak seemed to heal on its own, but several years later, a minor car accident resulted in a relapse. She needed surgery to get her life back. There was nothing that precipitated Katie’s headache. No accident, no warning. It just came...
Emily’s brain MRI led her doctors to think she had a pituitary tumor. Instead, what she really had was a spinal CSF leak. Emily was a couple weeks into a one-month trial of Cross-Fit when the headaches started. Driving home after a workout, she found herself...
Aiza’s spinal CSF leak was misdiagnosed for five years. Under the guidance of her doctor, she began trying every possible migraine medication, but nothing worked—because Aiza did not have a migraine headache. What she had was spontaneous intracranial hypotension due...
We are now accepting proposals for research grants up to $25,000 on the topic of INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION.Please download the Request for Proposals Document for details. RFP-2019-Spinal-CSF-Leak-FoundationDownload
Alex played in a softball league with other fathers from his children’s school. After one particularly strenuous game, he began to feel a nagging ache in the back of his head. By the next morning, it had intensified into a knife-like pain, a terrible headache unlike...
