Craig Hospital - Rehabilitative Neurosurgery - Scott P Falci M.D.
Rehabilitative Neurosurgery
Rehabilitative neurosurgery is a subspecialty that involves specialized
surgeries on patients with traumatic spinal cord injury. These
surgeries offer treatment for syringomyelia, post-traumatic tethered
spinal cord, pain and spasticity. Craig Hospital initiated its
rehabilitative neurosurgery program in the late 1970s, and is
an international referral center for the neurosurgical treatment
of posttraumatic syringomyelia and tethered spinal cords. Over
1,000 cases of posttraumatic syringomyelia and posttraumatic tethered
cords have been treated neurosurgically at Craig Hospital.
 Scott P. Falci M.D. is the Chief Neurosurgical Consultant for Craig Hospital. Dr. Falci is a graduate of Georgetown University Hospital of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and completed his neurosurgical residency at Georgetown University Hospital in 1992. He received his undergraduate training at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Dr. Falci initiated and designed the First Transplantation of Embryonic Nerve Cells for Spinal Cord Injury Project at Craig Center for Spinal Cord Research in collaboration with the Spinalis SCI Research Unit, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, and the department of Neurosurgery, University of Uppsala in Sweden. (J. of Neurotrauma, Vol. 14, No. 11, November, 1997)
Dr. Falci credentials, publications, presentations
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Dr. Falci 2011 Lecture
Spinal Cord Injury Regeneration and Stem Cell Research
Contact Dr. Falci
If you would like to make a referral to Dr. Falci, want further
information, or have questions, please call Charlotte Indeck, RN at
Dr. Falci’s office at 303-761-5281 or e-mail cindeck@craighospital.org. Because of the high volume of requests and our busy surgery schedule,
please allow several days to hear back. If your request requires a
quicker response, please indicate that when you call. If you are
having a medical emergency, call 911.
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