Dr Alok Sharma Blog

Spinal Cord Injury is the damage of the spinal cord resulting from trauma (e.g: Road accidents) or disease or degeneration (eg: infections like transverse myelitis, cancers/tumours). It has a global incidence of 40 to 80 cases per million populations and up to 90% of these cases are due to traumatic causes. Injury to the spinal cord results in partial or complete loss of sensory function and/or motor function of arms, legs and/or body based on the level of the spinal cord that has been injured. It can also affect the systems that regulate bowel or bladder control and breathing. Earlier the prognosis after spinal cord injury was very poor. However, it has improved due to better surgical and medical management techniques which have emerged in the acute phase of injury recently. Still, there is no gold standard for the treatment of Spinal Cord Injury. Most patients with spinal cord injury live the rest of their life with residual neurological deficits in the chronic phase of injury with l...

Dr Alok Sharma Sion Hospital , is a highly experienced world-famous Professor, Neurosurgeon, and Neuroscientist with surgical expertise in Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, and Stem cells. Dr Alok Sharma acquired his degrees for MBBS, M.S., and M.Ch. from Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital of Mumbai University. Later, he gained a fellowship in two ‘neural transplantation’ departments to become a neurosurgeon and treat people for various neurological disorders. To gain thorough knowledge and proficiency, he worked at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm Sweden (1995), and the University of Colorado health sciences center in Denver, USA (1998) where the first trial for cell transplantation for Parkinson's disease was done. From being a Professor and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mumbai's Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (LTMG) and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College,  Dr Alok Sharma Sion Hospital  is now the Director and a Neurosurgeon of NeuroGen B...