Hi Jolphinese,

Please tell me who did your surgery....I am set to have surgery soon with a DOC in the SF area and I still need to do all my research to see if this is right for me. It seems the people that recover from a 1st rib removal surgery the best, are the ones who have suffered an injury rather than RSI.....of course this dosen't apply to everyone, but it seems to be a pattern. Those of us who have suffered and waited for years seem to continue to do more damage and then cross our fingers and go for surgery......But what's really the success rate......how many get back to a normal life. It's like diabetes, it's never going to be cured, you have to always hope you can control it.

Ann