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Originally Posted by abegins
A tos specialist diagnosed me with this but I thought it was the part of same thing...How many people with tos have cervical dystonia too?
The scalene removal would resolve it right...no muscles to spasm?
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Misdiagnosed for cervical dystonia left side in 2007 and had Botox injections for that. It was a catastrophe. Things gradually got worse. Maybe this was also the blessing since I then really had to fight hard and figure out, what was wrong. As it now turned out, it was Arterial TOS and thus a secondary dystonia (so called peripherally-induced). After surgery, the symptoms are mostly gone. This is for sure a rare constellation but make sure to get the right clinical tests and appropriate treatment. Always question hard your neurolgists diagnosis.
Check this out: Spasmodic torticollis due to neurovascular compression of the spinal accessory nerve by the anteroinferior cerebellar artery: case report.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10981767