Dr Priyanka Beedasy

Qualifications

• MBChB (Cape Town)
• FC Neurol (SA)
• MMed Neurology (Durban)

Skills

• Management of adult neurological conditions (stroke, epilepsy, headache, dementia, neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, neuro-autoimmune (multiple sclerosis), neuro-ophthalmology (optic neuritis), neuromuscular (myasthenia gravis, motor neurone disease), Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders as well as inherited disorders such as muscular dystrophy, Huntington’s disease, neurofibromatosis.
• Therapeutic botulinum toxin (Botox®) injection for blepharospasm, hemi facial spasm, bruxism, post stroke limb spasticity, cervical dystonia, chronic migraine.
• Interpretation and reporting of adult and paediatric electro-encephalogram (EEG) and visual evoked potential (VEP).
• Performing and reporting nerve conduction studies (NCS) and electromyography (EMG) in adults.
• Research dissertation: non-traumatic myelopathy.

Consultations