Brain Awareness Week 2021: Head Pain and Spinal CSF Leak

Brain Awareness Week 2021: Head Pain and Spinal CSF Leak

Each day this week, we’ll be discussing some of the neurological symptoms and complications related to spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. Up first, by far the most common symptom (though not seen in every patient): Headache. The loss of CSF volume due to a leak...
Let’s make misdiagnosis the exception

Let’s make misdiagnosis the exception

In recent years, the awareness of spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) has increased such that more patients are being diagnosed correctly. But sadly, misdiagnosis remains the rule rather than the exception. Too many suffer for months, years, or even decades...