 Hello, my name is Dr. Nishant Yagnik. I'm head of neurosurgery at Manipal Hospital Gurgaon and today I want to tell you about a very You know difficult to diagnose but often a very curable problem which is that of spinal tumors and spinal pain now a lot of patients have cervical pain back pain and Many people believe that this is just something very benign This is something that just goes on and you can treat it with a bit of exercise in physiotherapy I want to tell you that we are a center of excellence in the treatment of spine and particularly spinal tumors now What happens is that if you have a spinal tumor particularly your symptoms won't resolve they will start progressing and Once they reach a certain progression that is the time that patients usually come to us Now that is often the time when things have been delayed for so long that we are not able to Preserve their function despite the removal of the tumor So if you have a chronic back pain or if you have a chronic cervical problem Which means it's been going on for a while and it is progressing and especially if you have features such as numbness Weakness and difficulty in urination Then you need to come to us much earlier with our latest techniques of Endoscopic and microscopic approaches incision sizes The level of comfort of the patient the speed with which you can get back to normal life has become much much smoother Than it was even five or six years ago So if you have a persistent progressive Chronic and very long pain in your spine you need to come see us before it's too late. Thank you