Hi thanks for your message, I had my intercostal brachial nerve cut during surgery aswell. My shoulder has not felt right since the op at all. So I have been going to and from different doctors, any physio I have been referred to has not met anyone who has had a first rib resection, my recent physio knows about the surgery but again not met anyone who has had it, she is the one that found my rotacuff ligaments have been cut by doing a physical exam. Also an osteopath has backed this up. My shoulder now does not sit in the correct place and my husband has been shown how to pop it back into place, but all I have to do is move for a drink and its back out. That in its self causes alot of nerve pain as things are being composed. I'm going to a vascular surgeon tomorrow actually. I just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone else? And how common it was. Cheers