Abstract
It is a great honour to write the editorial for this month’s CME component of the SAMJ. Functional neurosurgery is a subdivision of neurosurgery that does not always receive the recognition we feel that it deserves among general medical practitioners. It is definitely the less ‘sexy’ component of neurosurgery compared with vascular and skull base neurosurgery, but it is an important and highly specialised part of our field. There are currently only one academic unit and about five private sector units that perform functional neurosurgery procedures on a regular basis in South Africa. This, unfortunately, leads to many patients and their medical caregivers not knowing about the options available to them on their doorstep. Patients do not need to leave the country to search for help in other countries.
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