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Brain and Spine Foundation
7 Winchester House
Kennington Park
Cranmer Road
London
SW9 6EJ
Tel (helpline): 0808 808 1000 (run by neurosciences nurses)
Tel (office): 020 7793 5900
Fax: 020 7793 5939
Web: www.brainandspine.org.uk
Best time to telephone: helpline: 9am - 1pm, Monday - Friday. Office: normal office hours
The Brain and Spine Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people with brain and spine conditions and to reduce neurological disability by providing a national focus for information, education and resources. Their main objectives are to:
- Expand access to quality information and support for patients and carers.
- Improve the skills of medical and educational professionals and delivery of services to the public.
- Raise the profile of neurological conditions and disabilities.
- Increase the level of resources for neurological conditions.
The BSF produces a large number of publications (available from the above address - small charge applies) on neurological conditions including the following:
- Angiogram
- Back and neck pain
- Brain tumour
- CJD - Patients and carers
- Coiling of Brain Aneurysms
- Craniotomy
- CT Scans
- Dizziness and balance problems
- Epilepsy
- Face Pain
- Headache
- Headstrong - information for children and young people with brain tumours aged 7-9 years and 10 - 12 years
- Head Injury and concussion
- Meningitis and Encephalitis
- Motor Neurone Disease
- MRI Scan
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Neurophysiology
- Paralysis - loss of muscle power
- Parkinsons Disease
- Recovering from a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage
- Speech, language and communication difficulties
- Spinal Tumours
- Stroke
- Sub-arachnoid haemorrhage
- Transient ischaemic attacks
- Transverse Myelitis
- Vascular malformations of the brain
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