Patricia Raskin, host, interviews medical professionals from Southcoast Health and patients with first hand accounts.
The goal is to help and inspire listeners to navigate their health journey with knowledge, comfort and ease.
The Healthy Aging with Southcoast Health podcast helps listeners to manage their health to live a longer and healthier life.
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Patricia Raskin, host, interviews medical professionals from Southcoast Health and patients with first hand accounts.
The goal is to help and inspire listeners to navigate their health journey with knowledge, comfort and ease.
The Healthy Aging with Southcoast Health podcast helps listeners to manage their health to live a longer and healthier life.
Tech Meets Spine: How a Neurosurgeon Integrates Computer Assistance in Modern Spinal Surgery
Healthy Aging Podcast
25 minutes 43 seconds
1 year ago
Tech Meets Spine: How a Neurosurgeon Integrates Computer Assistance in Modern Spinal Surgery
In this episode of Healthy Aging Podcast, learn how technological advances have provided neurosurgeons with the ability to be aided by a computer via stereo tactical navigation, allowing physicians to perform surgery more accurately. Dr. Steven Cobery, a neurosurgeon at Southcoast Health who was born and raised in Fall River, explains the benefits of using a computer to aid in surgery such as patient recovery time being expedited due to smaller incisions made possible by the computer system. He appreciates how the images on the computer provide a realistic view of the anatomy that he is operating on, especially when operating in such narrow spaces and cavities like the spine. This episode was eye-opening in what is going on in the world of Neurosurgery!
Dr. Cobery envisioned working in pediatrics, but his engineering brain and hands steered him towards neurosurgery. After serving our country in the United States Navy, he came home and now gives back to the community that gave him so much! At the end of the day, it is very important to him that he has done his job to translate all the information effectively and to gain the confidence of his patient. He has a “never give up” attitude that he learned in first grade; years later he applied that same attitude allowing him to save the life of the teacher who taught him that value.
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Healthy Aging Podcast
Patricia Raskin, host, interviews medical professionals from Southcoast Health and patients with first hand accounts.
The goal is to help and inspire listeners to navigate their health journey with knowledge, comfort and ease.
The Healthy Aging with Southcoast Health podcast helps listeners to manage their health to live a longer and healthier life.