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Brain and Spine Helpline information sheets
In response to commonly asked questions, the Helpline has compiled information sheets on topics not covered in our current booklets. If there are any specific topics or conditions you would like us to add, please contact the helpline on 0808 808 1000 or email helpline@brainandspine.org.uk.
Can't find the info you need here? Call our Helpline
- A guide to health information on the Web
- Christmas preparations
- Cold weather tips for people with neurological conditions
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Different parts of the brain
- Exercise and physical activity
- Fatigue and neurological conditions
- Memory problems
- Meningioma
- Neuropathic pain
- Subdural haematoma
- Undiagnosed conditions
- Who's who in neurology
Other sources of information
If the information you are looking for is not in the Information Sheets listed above, try our fact sheets and booklets:
Fact sheets
General, concise introductions to each subject.
- Angiogram
- Brain and spine scans (information on CT scans and MRI scans)
- NEW Chiari malformations
- CJD: A guide for GPs
- Clinical trials
- Coiling of brain aneurysms
- Craniotomy
- NEW Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Hydrocephalus and shunts
- NEW Meningitis
- Migraine
- NEW Motor neurone disease
- NEW Multiple Sclerosis
- NEW Parkinson's disease
- Spinal strokes
- Stroke
- TIA (Transient ischaemic attack)
- Vestibular Rehabilitation Exercises
Booklets
In-depth, detailed publications.
- Back and neck pain
- Brain tumour
- CJD: A guide for patients
- Dizziness and balance problems
- Face Pain
- Headache
- Head injury and concussion
- Neurophysiology
- Paralysis - the loss of muscle power
- Speech, language and communication difficulties
- NEW Spinal tumours
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Transverse myelitis
- Vascular malformations of the brain
Other resources
- Headstrong: All about brain tumours (publication and interactive website)
NB Headstrong is classed as a booklet for pricing purposes.
- Educational implications of acquired brain injury (handbook for educational psychologists)
This handbook, which accompanise a training course, can be ordered for £25.
Still can't find the information you need?
Try our A-Z index of neurological topics, or contact a Helpline nurse.
