In this digital age, the question of screen time for children has become a pressing concern. As a neurosurgeon, I have closely observed the evolving…
Dr Timothy SteelApril 2, 2024
When I pick up my children’s schoolbags, I can't remember a time when they were as heavy as they are today. I know I’m not…
Dr Timothy SteelJuly 18, 2022
The new Zeiss Microscope was delivered to the St Vincent’s Private Hospital in January 2019. It is a superlative piece of engineering. The new microscope…
Dr Timothy SteelJuly 10, 2019
St Vincent's Hospital Sydney has launched a dedicated YouTube channel called St V’s TV. Here, Dr Timothy Steel talks briefly about the causes of back…
Dr Timothy SteelJuly 8, 2019
Dr Timothy Steel using the new 3D Zhiem intra-operative CT scanner in action at St Vincent's Private Hospital. It has amazing image quality for such…
Dr Timothy SteelMay 22, 2019
When Timothy Steel, both a neurosurgeon and a spine surgeon, began his career 20 years ago, spine operations were risky procedures followed by intensive care.…
Dr Timothy SteelNovember 7, 2018
A schwannoma is a tumour which originates from Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system. They are usually slow-growing and benign, but can infrequently show…
Dr Timothy SteelNovember 6, 2018
A 65yr old female patient presented with severe left sided neck pain just below the skull. The pain had come on some years earlier but…
Dr Timothy SteelNovember 6, 2018
A 19-year-old construction worker was brought into hospital having been found unconscious at the bottom of a stairwell at work. He had been unconscious for…
Dr Timothy SteelNovember 6, 2018
A common story - severe arm pain from a cervical disc protrusion. This patient had right arm symptoms, and an MRI showed a right-sided C5-6…
Dr Timothy SteelOctober 30, 2018
Back pain and/or sciatica are painful conditions that affect most people at some point in their lives. Sciatica is caused by nerve root compression/irritation, commonly…
Dr Timothy SteelOctober 30, 2018
This patient with Trigeminal Neuralgia had surgery in 2012 by another surgeon at another institution. Initially, she felt well, but the pain gradually returned over…
Dr Timothy SteelOctober 22, 2018
Introduction 30% of the population will develop significant neck pain. The pain is usually due to a disc herniation. If the disc protrusion is small pain tends to…
Dr Timothy SteelOctober 20, 2018
New scanning technology is being used to help doctors operate on back pain patients with greater confidence and precision. St Vincent's Private Hospital in Sydney…
Dr Timothy SteelOctober 20, 2017
Gilbert Laurie noticed his headache when he was watching television. It came and went, growing in strength over the next few days but easing under…
Dr Timothy SteelJanuary 4, 2016
Authored by: Ching-Chun Wang (Nepean Hospital) Jennifer Turner (St. Vincent’s Hospital) Timothy Steel MBBS, FRACS (St Vincent’s Hospital) Abstract Pineal apoplexy is a rare clinical…
Dr Timothy SteelMarch 10, 2013
Authored by: Chameen Samarawickrama BSc(Med) MBBS, PhD (Sydney Eye Hospital) Ellen Frydenberg MB, BCh, BAO (Concord Repatriation General Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospitals) Matthew Wells Timothy Steel…
Dr Timothy SteelFebruary 20, 2012