Other Charities, Medical Centres & Support Groups

We’ve pulled together a selection of other charities, medical centres and support groups that we think may be of use to anyone interested in CSF Leaks and Intracranial Hypotension.

They’re not our webpages, so we don’t control the content and including a link does not mean that we automatically agree with any or all opinions expressed on the associated website.

Charities (Elsewhere)

Spinal CSF Leak Canada A charity for spinal CSF leaks established in 2019

Spinal CSF Leak Foundation The USA’s spinal CSF leak charity.

Spinal CSF leak Australia The Australian spinal CSF leak charity.

Asociación AHIFUGA (Asociación de Hipotensión Intracraneal y Fugas de LCR – Spain)

AHIFUGA is The Spanish spinal and cranial CSF leak charity.

CSF Leak Website - France

Les Ébréché(e)s  is the French platform to inform the public, patients & healthcare professionnals about CSF leaks. 

Created by a patient, it covers educational information as well as testimonies and a directory of Expert centres treating CSF leaks in France. 

 

Charities (UK & Ireland)

Aspire – Supporting people with spinal injury

Brain and Spine Foundation

CSF Leak Association

Headway

IIH UK / Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension UK

 

www.les-ebreches.org 

Counselling & Support

Breathing Space Scotland

Samaritans

CSF Leak / Intracranial Hypotension Resources

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center CSF Leak Pages

Claire Hubbard's Blog – My life with Intracranial Hypotension

Les Ébréché(e)s  is the French platform to inform the public, patients & healthcare professionnals about CSF leaks. 

Created by a patient, it covers educationnal information aswell as testimonies and a directory of Expert centers treating CSF leaks in France. 

www.les-ebreches.org 

CSF Leak Association

Educational Presentation: Intracranial Hypotension

Johns Hopkins Medicine – What are CSF Leaks?

Medicine Plus – What is a CSF Leak?

Mont Sinai Hospital – CSF Leak

The Management of Cranial and Spinal CSF Leaks

CSF Leak Organisations

CSF Leak Association

Spinal CSF Leak Foundation

Doctors with CSF Leak Experience (UK & Ireland)

List of doctors

Doctors with CSF Leak Experience (USA)

Dr Ian Carroll

Dr Linda Gray-Leithe

Dr Wouter I. Schievink

Medical Journals & Research

Barrow Neurological Institute

British Medical Journal

Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Imaging

Chiari Malformation & Syringomyelia Foundation Research

High-Resolution Single-Slice MR Myelography

Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)

National Library of Medicine

Miscellaneous

British Society of Neuroradiologists

Headache Specialists in the UK

Health Improvement Scotland – Stepped care for functional neurological symptoms

NHS Choices

Scottish Head Injury Forum

The Neurological Alliance of Scotland

Online Communities for CSF Leak / Intracranial Hypotension

Canadian CSF Leak Support Group

CSF Leaks (Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak) & IH – Facebook Open Group

CSF Leaks (Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak) & IH – Facebook Private Group

CSF Leaks (UK & Others) – Facebook Open Group

Inspire Spinal CSF Leak Community

Related Medical Conditions & Resources

Arnold Chiari Malformation

Brain and Spine Foundation

Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea

Connective Tissue Disease

CSF Flow Issues

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

Hypermobility

I Have IIH Foundation

IIH UK / Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension UK

Intercranial Hypertension Research Foundation

Marfan Syndrome

Meningitis

Shine Charity (IHH)

Syringomyelia

Therapies & Relaxation for Leakers

Craniosacral Therapy Association (UK)

The Shiatsu Society (UK)

UK NHS Hospitals (with CSF Leak Experience)

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London

Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester

Southern General Hospital, Glasgow

The Walton Centre, Liverpool

University Hospital of North Staffordshire

USA Hospitals (with CSF Leak Experience)

Cedars-Sinai, California

Duke Medicine, North Carolina

Stanford University, CA


Last reviewed: 2021

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