Tarlov Cyst Institute

The Tarlov Cyst Institute (TCI) team uses a refined surgical treatment incorporates the newest advances in neurosurgical care, including computer-assisted image guided and minimally invasive approaches to surgery.

Many patients who are seeking help have experiences countless specialty physician visits, multiple surgeries and feel like they are at the end of their rope. With debilitating back pain, everyday life and activities become impossible. Tarlov cysts are dilations of the nerve root sheaths that create abnormal sacs filled with spinal fluid causing progressively painful radiculopathy (nerve pain). If left untreated, patients suffer incredible pain and dysfunction. Because very few surgeons can treat this disease, it is often undetected for far too long.

Using specialized techniques and outcomes research during the past few years has shown worldwide statistical improvements in patients.

Having fully trained surgical techniques in minimally invasive spine surgery (MIS), this involves making smaller incisions and reducing the amount of tissue damage beneath the skin. In neurosurgery, minimally invasive surgery is accomplished with the aid of specially designed instruments which assist in visualization of the surgical field.

With image guided surgery, it helps to keep current with new advances in computer assisted technologies for image analysis, diagnostic/preoperative planning and surgical navigation using 3D virtual image of the surgical field.