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Originally Posted by Akash
If you have non traumatic TOS with only tingling and numbness in your fingers thats entirely different from how others have it. I suspect many Drs still stick to the above definition and are completely clueless. One Dr confidently informed me that TOS resolves within a couple of months and that my pain was in my mind. Gent lives next to my place and would not even inspect my shoulder or neck. His examination of my lower back was limited to taking an x-ray and telling me "See everything is all right".
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Good friend of mine is in med school and he showed me the little section they have on vascular disorders and it said that the only way to develop TOS is by having extra cervical ribs. The truth is that 99% of the time this condition is not life threatening, just painful and annoying, so doctors honestly do not know anything about it. If it became a huge epidemic effecting millions of people then more clinicians would be educated on it I assume.