General Practitioners

• Fibromyalgia
• Medical Weight Loss
  Brian Koch, M.D. specializes in Pain Medicine within the Culicchia Neurological Clinic. He strongly believes that effective treatment of chronic and recurrent pain of the neck, back and joints is best accomplished utilizing a broad range of modalities including procedures such as injections, medical management, physical therapy, exercise and weight loss.
• Stroke Rehabilitation
• Ear Infections
  Patients suffering from an inner ear infection people will have often severe vertigo spells. Often the infection will clear up but patients are still left with an imbalance. Also, patients suffering from Meniere’s Disease also benefit from vestibular therapy.
• Sleep Disorders
  K. David Khoobehi, M.D., Neurologist, treats patients suffering from a wide range of disorders including headaches and migraines; concussion and traumatic brain injury; stroke;  neurological sleep disorders, cognitive disorders, dementia and seizure disorders.
• Emergency Care
  Rebecca Winchell of Mandeville had just finished playing tennis when she began suffering from what felt like a sinus headache. “All of sudden that night I felt fluid rushing to my head and my neck felt very sore,” she recalls. “I was coherent enough to speak but in a lot of pain so I went to the emergency room.”

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Dr. Khoobehi  is a graduate of the LSU School of Medicine and completed both a neurology and internal medicine internship at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans. He received the resident teaching award while at Tulane Medical Center. While a medical student at LSU in New Orleans, he received the Neurology Clerkship Outstanding Medical Student award. He attended Tulane University and earned a B.S. in Neuroscience.

Neurologists

• Neurology
  Neurology is the field of medicine concerned with diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease or impaired function of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, and autonomic nervous system, as well as the blood vessels that relate to these structures.
• Multiple Sclerosis
  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system in which an inflammatory attack occurs disrupting the brain or spinal cord’s myelin.  Myelin is the fatty layer that surround nerves, providing insulation and allowing for the fast transmission of nerve impulses.  When this demyelination occurs there is disruption of the nerve’s electric transmission, which in turn can produce a wide range of symptoms such as visual loss, numbness, weakness and lack of coordination and balance.
• Epilepsy
  Neurology is the field of medicine concerned with diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease or impaired function of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, and autonomic nervous system, as well as the blood vessels that relate to these structures. The neurologist is a consultant to other physicians but also is the principal physician and may render all levels of care commensurate with his/her training. Common conditions treated by a neurologist include: stroke, aneurysm, dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, brain tumors, migraines, head and spinal injuries, vascular malformation of brain and spinal cord.

Psychiatrists

• Psychiatry

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Culicchia Neurological Clinic was proud to offer carotid artery screenings as part of the Aces Against Aneurysms fundraising tennis tournament. A carotid artery ultrasound is a screening test that detects blockages that could cause a stroke. It uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the inside of the two large arteries in your neck that supply your brain with oxygen-rich blood.
• MRI
• Radiology
• Interventional Radiology

Surgeons

• General Surgery
• Sciatica
  Fitness Expert Mackie Shilstone’s sciatica flared up after training Serena Williams for the U.S. Open. He turned to the Culicchia Spine Team for relief, including Dr. Stephen Rynick, for a lumbar epidural steroid injection. He wrote about his treatment in his weekly column on nola.com. “My pain, originating on the left outer hip then migrating to the mid-thigh and lateral calf, followed this exact path and was originally thought to be a hip bursitis — the product of the plyometric jumping we did to increase Williams’ acceleration to the ball,” he wrote.
• Pinched Nerve
  Culicchia Neurological Clinic Neurosurgeons John Steck and have used the Mobi-C to relieve patients of pain and discomfort.   In the video below, Dr. Owen describes how a patient suffering from radiculopathy emanating from a pinched nerve was relieved by the Mobi – C artificial cervical disc, which allows for a faster recovery time than disc fusion surgery.
• Neurosurgery
  The team of neurosurgeons at Culicchia Neurological is affiliated with the LSU Department of Neurosurgery in New Orleans. Dr. Frank Culicchia serves as chairman of the department and is trusted to teach the neurosurgeons of tomorrow.
• Otolaryngology
  She returned to New Orleans in 1995 where she worked for LSUHSC and Kresge Hearing Research labs. In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, she was able to help construct multiple clinical sites with limited resources in order to be able to continue to serve the hearing impaired public during the difficult recovery time. All during her career, she has educated new Audiologists, Audiology students and Otolaryngology Residents.

Plastic Surgeons

• Botox
  Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin used to treat spasticity, a condition caused by any damage to the brain or spinal cord. Spasticity causes increased muscle tone and extreme tightness that prohibits use of the muscle. The commercial medical drug, marketed as “Botox” or “Dysport” are highly purified forms that can be injected directly into the muscle to relieve the tightness.  By making sure the injections are in just the right spot, botulinum toxin can provide very effective treatment with few side effects.

Physical Therapists

• Physical Therapy
  Vestibular Rehabilitation is a highly-specialized form of physical therapy that helps patients maintain their focus while moving so they can better control their balance while standing, sitting, walking, or moving around. “All of those movements are influenced by the inner ear and the brain. Think of it as our body’s central processing center, which sends signals to the eyes to stabilize balance and focus,” explained CNC Hearing and Balance Center Vestibular Therapist Carrie Black, PT, DPT, C/NDT.  “Our vestibular therapists work to re-training patients to process that movement so they no longer experience subjective dizziness or imbalance.”
• Occupational Therapy
  “The tears were about losing who I was before,” Abrusley said. Months of physical and occupational therapy were ahead.
• Neck Pain
• Neuro Rehabilitation
  Dr. Khoobehi participates in all phases of patient care including recovery. He frequently treated patients in the neuro-rehabilitation unit during his residency at Tulane.