004: Dr. Nucelio Lemos talks about the emerging discipline of Neuropelveology
On this episode, Michelle and Dr. Nucelio Lemos chat about Neuropelveology and how it is a new concept in medicine that is not yet a subspecialty because it is still developing.
Neuropelveology is bringing together the concept of gynecologic laparoscopy, with concept with peripheral neural surgery to approach conditions that affect the intrapelvic portions (within the pelvis, the lower part of the abdomen between the hip bones) of the lumbosacral plexus.
It can consist of nerve roots that form sciatic, the pudendal, femoral nerve. The nerves to the pelvic floor, the perineum and the legs. These nerves all originate and form in the deeper layers of the pelvis.
Neuropelveology uses advanced laparoscopic nerve surgery techniques to approach the nerve roots. With the knowledge that is learned from these approaches (which started with the goal of preserving nerves during surgery), they then learned more and more about conditions related to pain related to those nerves, such as endometriosis and a long list of other inrtapelvic conditions.
About Dr. Nucelio Lemos
Dr. Lemos did his medical training and postgraduate training in gynecology, urogynecology and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, as well as a PhD in Gynecology. He then attended a Fellowship in Pelvic Neurodysfunctions by the International School of Neuropelveology in Zurich, Switzerland.
He is currently the Chairman of the Scientific and Education Committee of the Latin American Pelvic Floor Association (ALAPP). He is also a Founding Member of the International Society of Neuropelveology and the Director of the School of Pelvic Pain of the International Continence Society Institute.
In 2017 he made his way to Canada where he was appointed Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he currently is creating the Pelvic Functional Surgery and Neuropelveology Clinic at Mount Sinai and Women’s College Hospitals in Toronto, Canada.
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