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Originally Posted by olecyn
I agree with Alison,
If a doc did that to you...makes me angry.
An IME did that to me recently and my husband almost took his head off as I agonized in pain. He later went on to say on his report I was exaggerating all my chronic pain sx and did NOT have TOS.
This doc has no clue, no education on TOS, the chronic pain it brings and treatment.
Get yourself to a KNOWLEDGABLE TOS expert like Dr. Togut or...so many others here on the east coast will get you there.
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Billy, I am fortunate enough to have Dr T in my back yard so to speak and he was the first Dr that I had seen post work doctors. He was amazed the living hell that they put me through and on my first meeting with him (3 1/2 hour appointment) he ruled TOS and imediately took me out of work and told me any type of resistive exercise would result in futher decompensation. Unfortunately, my TOS has progressed into RSD, but I think that was just lying under the surface waiting to rear it's ugly head!
He does promote light water therapy and in my area there is a rehab pool where the water is kept at a constant 91 F, which during the winter on those days of minus 20 F feels wonderful !!! Johanna, Alison, Jo ... among others who may chime in have been through the war for a while now and surely will pass along tips in survival in living with the beast
TOS as far as ROM Billy sorry to say that is one thing we all learn to adapt and live with and if you need to talk or vent this is a good place to do so as we understand where you are coming from... it is real, regardless what others may think or say there are a lot of creul people in this world even among the medical ***PROFESSIONALS*** !!!!
MY BEST !!!! Mark~n~Goober