Dr. Joel I Franck MD
Neurosurgeon
11111 Panama City Beach Pkwy Panama City Beach FL, 32407Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Joel Franck practices Neurological Surgery in Panama City Beach, FL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Franck prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Yale School of Medicine 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Input from neck afferents to the cat flocculus.
- Inhibitory interaction between labyrinthine, visual and neck inputs to the cat flocculus.
- Mossy fiber neck and second-order labyrinthine projections to cat flocculus.
- Dorsolateral pontine inhibition of dorsal horn cell responses to cutaneous stimulation: lack of dependence on catecholaminergic systems in cat.
- Lumbar dorsal root potentials elicited by stimulation of nucleus locus coeruleus.
- Functional reorganization of cat somatic sensory-motor cortex (Sml) after selective dorsal root rhizotomies.
- Changes in responses of medial pontomedullary reticular neurons during repetitive cutaneous, vestibular, cortical, and tectal stimulation.
Treatments
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Herniated Disc
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
- Lumecca
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