Neurology
Neurology is a medical specialty that aims to diagnose and treat diseases of the peripheral and central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). The brain is the body’s motor and controls numerous vital functions.
The Neurologist treats diseases affecting the brain, spinal cord and nerves, such as:
Primary headache disorder:
- Migraine
- Horton’s headache
- Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux)
- and other neuralgia
Vascular diseases:
- Cerebrovascular accidents
- Transient ischemic attacks
- Intracranial hemorrhage
It also treats disorders related to movement:
- Parkinson’s disease
- Essential tremor
- Restless leg syndrome
- Different types of dystonia …
Neurology also deals with inflammatory and autoimmune conditions such as:
- Multiple sclerosis
- Degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease
- Motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Finally neurology is involved in the diagnosis and treatment of the peripheral nervous system diseases such as different focal neuropathies (eg. Bell’s palsy), root problems, polyneuropathy, myasthenia gravis or muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophies, polymyositis…
Services offered at the Polyclinique Centre-Ville
Polyclinique Centre-Ville offers a general neurology consultation service for an initial assessment, management and monitoring of various neurological disorders.
The care of patients with migraine and a proper guidance of the diagnosis and treatment are offered. Chronic migraine treatment with possibility of Botox injection is also available.
You suffer from migraine, here are few tips before coming to see the neurologist:
A calendar of your migraine attacks is an essential tool; write:
1- The dates of onset
2- The duration of pain
3- The severity of pain
4- Triggers
5- And the drugs used.
This tool allows the neurologist to better appreciate the severity of the migraine, to assess treatment efficacy, to better guide his therapeutic choices and follow-up modalities to implant.
Our Specialists
Dr Elizabeth Leroux did her neurology training at University of Montreal. She did a two-year fellowship in Paris at the Emergency Headache Center of Hôpital Lariboisière. She directed the headache clinic of University of Montreal (2010-2016), then the CHAMP multidisciplinary program of the University of Calgary (2017-2019). Dr Leroux is trained for Botox injections and nerve blocks. Dr Leroux is the president of the Canadian Headache Society and the founder of the Migraine Quebec and Migraine Canada. She is involved in migraine advocacy and is a well-known speaker, participating to national and international events. She has published a book for patients on migraine (Migraine: more than a headache). Current interests include therapeutic education for migraine, impact of migraine on work, vestibular migraine, and cluster headache. Dr Leroux is glad to join the team of the Polyclinique Centre-Ville.
Dr. Chibane is board certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Neurology. She studied Medicine at Laval University and completed her Residency at the University of Montreal. She completed a fellowship in Washington, DC at Georgetown University in Brain Injury Medicine with a focus in rehabilitation after a traumatic brain injury. Her interests include the spectrum of mild to severe TBI, spasticity and post-traumatic headache.
Dr Tarik Slaoui is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of Toulouse in France. After a four year residency in neurology he worked in Paris where he specialized in cerebrovascular accident. He has been practicing since 2010 in Montreal at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur and the CHUM. His areas of interest are stroke, migraines and movement disorders (Parkinson's disease)