Dr Naeem Farooqi
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spinal Surgeon
Dr Naeem Farooqi is a Senior fully British trained Neurosurgeon & Spinal Surgeon with acute & chronic pain management expertise. He comes with extensive experience at a very high level from prestigious UK’s National Health Service (NHS) & SEHA services of Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
He completed his graduation & formal General Surgical training from Pakistan. He then underwent advance Neurosurgical training via UK national training scheme (NTN) at Sheffield & Humber deanery leading to CCST. Later he completed formal post training fellowships in Functional Neurosurgery (Surgery for Pain, Epilepsy, Parkinson, Spasticity & Oncology) & dual Complex Spine fellowship from leading institutes at Liverpool & Birmingham, UK.
He was practicing as Fulltime Consultant Neurosurgeons at centers of excellence like University Hospitals of Stoke & Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Birmingham respectively, before moving to UAE.
Here he has been working as Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spinal Surgeon since 2017 & worked at renowned Al Ain Hospital & Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC). In both places he also served as an acting head of department. Since 2022 He is in private practice at Al Ain/Abu Dhabi & now decided to benefit patient with his expertise in Dubai .
PAIN
- Surgical & Non-Surgical Management of Acute & Chronic pain involving Neck / Back / Leg / Head / Face / Post Injury etc.
- Intervention for neck & back pain using U/S & X Rays as outpatient & on day care basis performing Radiofrequency ablations, Nerve blocks, Ganglion impar block for Pelvic pain, Scalp block for migraine, Laser treatment of spinal pathology, PRP therapy for chronic back pain etc.
- Peripheral nerve release & decompression including Carpal tunnel & Ulnar neuropathy.
- Trigeminal Neuralgia & Facial Neuropathy
- Surgical treatment of Headache & Occipital Neuralgia
SPINE
- He provides surgical treatment of all kinds of Spinal pathology including Myelopathy / Degeneration / Stenosis / Trauma / Tumors / Infection / Congenital / Chiari & Syringomyelia, using both Open & MIS techniques doing both instrumented (Fusion) & non instrumented operations.
- Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty for Osteoporotic Fractures
HEAD
- Neuronavigation & Stereotaxy
- Surgical Management of Head Trauma, Brain Infections, Benign & Malignant Brain Tumors
- VP Shunt & Neuroendoscopy for acute & chronic Hydrocephalus
SUBSPECIALIST NEUROSURGERY
- Neuropathic Pain procedures / Neuromodulation like Spinal Cord & DRG stimulation.
- Epilepsy surgery Insertion of VNS, lesionectomy, intra cranial monitoring etc.
- Surgery for spasticity including implantation & maintenance of pumps & Rhizotomy etc.
- Deep Brain stimulation for movement disorders like Parkinson Disease etc.
- English
- Hindi
- Urdu
- Arabic (Basic)