Dr. Larry Armstrong
Neurosurgery
Fayetteville, AR
29 years experience male
Locations
Office
Fayetteville, AR
Phone
Practice website
About
Bio
Neurosurgery Chief, Washington Regional Medical Center
Northwest Arkansas Neuroscience Institute
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Neurosurgery
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
394 Answers
1.4K Agrees
The number of answers this doctor has agreed with.
A 63-year-old male asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Unclear: If the dr's who assessed you and determined that this is from your hypothalamus, it's difficult to disagree with them. Occipital neuralgia is usually... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.5k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 47-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Possibly: They are the best way to start and if you don't get the answer you are looking for, try a neurologist.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 40-year-old female asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Second surgery: Pro's- relieve pain, improve strength, take pressure off nerve, can be very effective.
Con's- more scar tissue, possible spinal fluid leak, remove... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.5k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Pressure: There are a few causes of sciatica during pregnancy- among these are pressure on the lumbar plexus of nerves by the uterus/baby, increased pressure on... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 37-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
No: The majority of patients do not require therapy for a compression fracture. Usually walking for exercise and wearing a brace for 3 months to allow th... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.5k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Curare: This is probably the drug you are looking for.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 43-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Yes: You can try physical therapy and injections prior to the laminectomy. If those don't make you better, the lumbar laminectomy is a great procedure wit... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 30-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Many ways: You will be placed on some sort of blood thinner or anti-platelet drug to help prevent further strokes. You will be watched for blood pressure, heart... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 43-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Yes: A ganglion cyst is just that- a fluid filled cyst which won't cause many problems other than cosmetic. You can see a hand surgeon if it bothers you f... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 43-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Doubtful: In the old days, it was called the "bible" treatment to rupture a ganglion cyst on a person's wrist. As the bible was usually the biggest book in peo... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 35-year-old female asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Pain Will guide you: If you cannot live with the pain in your current condition or you have weakness, then surgery may be the best option for you. Most microdiskectomies ... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6.1k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Children's Hospital: Find a large city with a children's hospital and they should offer a pediatric neurologist.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Many: Lack of initiative, loss of taste/smell, nerve dysfunction, facial paralysis, weakness of the extremities, change in personality, loss of vision, memo... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 43-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Absolutely: Theres the old saying that the eyes are the window to the soul. It's very true that may diseases are diagnosed by findings in the eye. If your eye d... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Carelessness: Contusion- bruising on the brain can be caused by bad luck, but more often they are a result of carelessness when people don't wear bicycle helmets, m... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Loud: The MRI makes a noise like a jack hammer.
It doesn't hurt at all, you will feel nothing. You should just close your eyes, think pleasant thoughts, an... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Years: Shunts used to fail on a regular basis- but today's shunts are more complex and sophisticated. They can work for multiple years without fail.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Depends: Ct;s used to cost around $1000.
Many ct's today are much less expensive- some can be performed for around $300-500.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Yes: There are progressive degenerative diseases of the cerebellum or those tracts from the cerebellum which can cause loss of coordination. There are al... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Unsure: I'm not sure if there's a question here or if you're talking about the three of these together. If so, it would be a very difficult situation to trea... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 43-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Neurosurgeon: Most neurosurgeons can do this surgery. Depending on the size of the pineal tumor, you may want to call around to different universities or large med... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 47-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
No: Those symptoms are not typical at all of a chiari malformation.
These would be more indicative of something with the eye, seizures, or migraines to na... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Yes: You should be able to feel the catheter and you should be able to feel the valve under the skin.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 36-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Many: Headaches, dizziness, vertigo, difficulty with balance, blurred vision, difficulty looking up, nausea and other symptoms as well.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Maybe, maybe not: If physical therapy is required after your surgery, slow stretching and strengthening exercises will be employed.
Nothing too strenuous will be used.... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.7k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
About an inch: For a single level laminectomy, the incision will be about 1 inch.
For each additional level, add about an inch. It may be a little bigger or smalle... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.7k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Pain Dr's office: Injections into the facet joints of the spine are usually done in the pain dr's office or wherever he usually does injections.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 29-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Large Head: The head is larger than normal probably due to the hydrocephalus found on the ultrasound.
A consultation with a pediatric neurosurgeon would be great ... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Recommended: The ou med center is excellent for treatment in a variety of disorders. I have many patients who have had surgery in that facility. They have an out... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 58-year-old female asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
See your neurosugeon: Go back and see your neurosurgeon again. Make sure your cerebellar decompression is still open and not causing compression. If not, see a neurolgist ... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.6k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 43-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Blow to the brain: A concussion causes pain from the impact injury to the brain when the brain strikes the skull from the inside. Sometimes it is not severe enough to c... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Curvature: Could be curvature of the lower spine or your pelvic tilt angle.
If it persists, see your family md for xrays and evaluation.
Stretching and strengthe... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Above 15 cm H2O: Normal intracranial pressure is 5 - 15 cm h2o.
Anything above 15 cm h2o is increased.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Try conditioning: Sounds like there may be some muscular weakness in your back.
Try going to your family md for eval and a referral to physical therapy to strengthen yo... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 27-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Not curable: Since cervical spondylosis is arthritis changes in the cervical spine, it cannot be cured. It is a normal degenerative process as we age.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 32-year-old male asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Therapy: If swelling is what showed on your mri, therapy is the mainstay of treatment. Therapy will include heat, ultrasound, muscle stimulation, and exercise... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6.1k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 70-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Neurologist: There are some ways to treat the symptoms of neuropathy such as lyrica, (pregabalin) neurontin, elavil, and others. Neurologists are the best doctors... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6.1k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 35-year-old female asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Common sense: Start your boxing/kickboxing slowly- striking can reinjure your arm and worsen your symptoms. If the ligaments are strained, you could do significant... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 37-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Surgery or nothing: These are treated with surgery on the base of the skull and sometimes the dura covering the brain and/or the upper cervical vertebrae. Each surgery i... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Hearing, face weak: Acoustic neuromas- also called vestibular schwannoma are benign growths on the 8th cranial nerve. Depending on the location and size, they can cause ... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Slow and steady: After a stroke, activity should begin slowly- understanding that recovery is a marathon and not a sprint.
Physical therapy, walking, and slow purposef... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 29-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
If a child, yes: Your other choices are to find an epilepsy specialist- fellowship trained after neurology residency who will see children or find a pediatric neurolog... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 40-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Location: If you can tell us where you are, i'd be happy to find you a pediatric neurologist closest to you. It may be close or several hours drive depending o... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Absolutely: Even ct scans can miss skull fractures if the fracture is small or runs along the same line as the ct image.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.7k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A female asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Difficult to answer: Family dynamics are often difficult when a family member is suffering and you want to intervene without any medicolegal right to demand anything. You... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.7k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Probably not: Most neurosurgeons today do hair-sparing neurosurgery. This allows you to simply shave a small thin strip of scalp for the incision. The infection r... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.7k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Hole in spinal cord: They can occur spontaneously, with trauma, tumors, or other conditions.
Most cause no problems or symptoms and are found incidentally.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.7k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Yes: Fluphenazine is first generation drug used as a antipsychotic and tardive dyskinesia symptoms can result from it's use.
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.8k viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 22-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Nerve symptoms : What you are describing is nerve symptoms from either nerve pressure in the neck or possibly first rib area. There could also be a disease of the ner... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
6.1k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Larry Armstronganswered
Neurosurgery 29 years experience
Weakness: Any synthetic steroid can cause a steroid induced muscular weakness. They cause proximal muscle weakness preferentially and affect large muscle groups... Read More
Created for people with ongoing healthcare needs but benefits everyone.
5.9k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
TestimonialsRecommendations and Thank you notes are endorsements given from patients or other doctors.
Recommendations and Thank you notes are endorsements given from patients or other doctors.
2
Recommendations
799
Thank you notes
HealthTap member
Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Armstrong is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
HealthTap member
Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Armstrong is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
HealthTap member
Thank you, your answer was very helpful! I was told I need to have this surgery after living for the last 5 years in pain. After pain mapping this procedure was recommended.
HealthTap member
Thank you for answering! its my best friends baby boy ..ive been worried..He has fluid in his lungs now but doing great! Healing fast
HealthTap member
thank you! i am on round 2 of a steriod taper...i have a 2 year old trying to hold off surgery as long as possible! thanks again!
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, TX
Graduated 1994MD
Awards
HealthTap Founding Doctor
HealthTap Scholar
HealthTap ClubMD
Affiliations
Northwest Arkansas Neuroscience Institute
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions, provide medical advice, write prescriptions, and more.
Answer emailed
in 24 hours or less