brachial plexus neuropathy

[karen]

Anyone here have brachial plexus neuropathy or thoracic outlet syndrome? I am in the clutches of these very painful and life restricting problems. I would like to know if anyone has had a rib removed to ease the pain and whether it helped.

[ordway]

hi, I do not have TOS but work with a vascular surgeon who repairs TOS, the surgery is very successful and our patients have always told me they wished they had the repair sooner, go to a peripheral vascular surgeon- have an Ultrasound with arm movements (the thech will have you raise your arm, turn your head and check the blood flow from a variety of positions- this will confirm ot rule out TOS on the spot.
there are a lot of great websites on TOS try a search on **********

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lauri