Info on Arnold-Chiari I, Idiopathic Syringomyelia, and Idiopathic Scoliosis: Causes and Insights

        ICSEB implements new measures to guarantee safe medical care due to COVID-19 The new measures come according to the extraordinary actions to restrict mobility and social contact established by the different national and international health authorities, together with the indications of the Management of the Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB). New and reinforced safety, prevention and hygiene conditions have been implemented to guarantee the protection of our patients’ and staff’s health, as well as public health. We provide medical care to patients from different parts of the world at ICSEB, and we have the obligation to inform each of them of the new measures to be taken into account to guarantee their safety and reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. Our administrative team, made up of contact personnel who communicate in more than 16 languages, provides all the pertinent information to schedule m...

There is a multitude of information circulating in the professional domain as well as in communication channels that, if on the one hand it offers different perspectives, on the other, it can complicate understanding and decision making. Medical and health professionals have a responsibility commitment to the sick, to transfer information as clear and exhaustive as possible, to allow them to make the most appropriate decisions about their own health. The Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB) promotes education and the dissemination of knowledge, being aware that all this affects the patients’ decisions about her/his health and safety . It is on that account that we have prepared this open letter.  We would like to alert about the possible risks of relying on professionals who do not act with due prudence when offering a surgical treatment that they claim is the same as the one practiced by our team. As a matter of fact, they do not ha...