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Originally Posted by hellothere
Someone with a good result from the surgery.. Im very glad to hear it. 
I think you are very right though general fitness and prior health and age would have alot to do with how well you recover. Also the severity of the complications awswell.
I thinking people with more mild symptoms will have a much better result. So that is making me feel alot more positive about my situation. I also spend alot of time being active and working out and i really dont want to give that up. |
KY -
I also had a positive surgical result. I am going on 7 1/2 years being symptom free on that side. I can do a lot with the hand and arm now that I couldn't do pre-surgery. I returned to my workout routine at some point after the surgery. I was considered a severe case at diagnosis (10 months post injury) with a positive EMG showing nerve loss and opted for surgery 9 months later when the situation was cascading down. I literally couldn't use my hand by the time I went for surgery. The muscles in the hand and forearm had atrophied. Doctors can not explain why/how the muscles recovered as well as they did. It took a good couple of years before the hand completely recovered. Now you couldn't even tell that I had a problem except on EMG where the nerves show some sort of regrowth.
I was just diagnosed TOS on the other side so I've returned. I hope to manage this through conservative treatment as the surgery and rehab is hard. If I can't control the symptoms, I will consider surgery sooner than I did the last time hoping for a fairly good outcome.