Dr Biggs is a Neurosurgeon specialising in brain tumours; base of skull tumours including meningioma and acoustic neuroma; treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm; spinal surgery; and peripheral nerve surgery including carpal tunnel release, ulnar nerve decompression, meralgia paraesthetica, common peroneal nerve palsy, brachial plexus reconstruction and neurogenic tumours (schwannomas and neurofibromas).
Brain
Brain surgery is mostly done for tumours, trauma, bleeding from vascular anomalies, hydrocephalus or pain. Dr Biggs training and overseas fellowships make him an expert in surgery for brain tumours, and cranial nerve compression syndromes (trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm and glossopharyngeal neuralgia). Dr Biggs trained with Prof Peter Janetta who popularized the operation of microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia
Nerves
Peripheral nerve surgery covers all surgery on nerves outside the central nervous system (brain and spine). This includes trauma with reconstruction including brachial plexus; entrapment syndromes (Carpal tunnel, ulnar nerve, common peroneal nerve etc); and tumours (schwannomas, neurofibromas). Dr Biggs trained with Prof David Kline (peripheral nerve surgeon at Louisiana State University)
Spine
Spinal surgery is generally done for back pain and sciatica, neck pain with arm symptoms, spinal cord compression, or spinal tumours. Dr Biggs specializes in keyhole minimally invasive spinal surgery for disc protrusion, cervical (neck) fusion, and lumbar fusion, as well as all types of spinal tumours
