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Old 02-26-2016, 05:43 PM
dacello dacello is offline
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Default Coming to terms

Hello everyone, I am here looking for advice. I am coming to terms with my current condition, and I'm not quite sure what to do next. I'm a musician and suffered an injury to my left arm while performing last summer. Diagnosed with cubital tunnel, I couldn't believe it was that simple. In October my right shoulder gave out with a bicep tendinitis, and since then my life has changed forever. I wouldn't get better and in early DecemberI flew out of the country to do imaging and to see a lot of specialists. After baffling all the doctors, the physical therapist suspected thoracic outlet syndrome, nervous and possibly with vascular involvement. I believe she was quite right. Since then I have been working on my posture, but I am always in pain 5-8 with constant irritation of my nerves under my right clavicle and into my armpit. It hurts just to walk. I am based in Reno Nevada and I don't know of any doctors to see here, alsoThe health care situation the state is amazing, since I need to wait two months to see a neurologist. I have no blood flow to my arms when I raise them or doing other maneuvers. I have been going to physical therapy for about three weeks, but see very little if no improvement (very gentle manual therapy). I'm considering traveling out of town, maybe to Stanford or even to Los Angeles to see specialists there, but i'm sure it's going to take weeks to be seen. Do people know of any physical therapists in Northern California? Sometimes I'm in so much pain I just want to going to emergency room, but I know how rare this condition is and also wondering should travel out of town. Don't know if anyone has any advice, but I needed to post this. Thank you everyone for reading. I'm still coming to terms and wonder if I should consider surgery in my condition to save my music career... Anyway. Thank you everyone
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