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Old 08-11-2011, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by chroma View Post
Hi Jo*mar,

So your road to recovery looked something like this:

-- Butler stretches.
-- Chiro.
-- Trigger points treated by self and chiro (SCM & scalenes)
-- Stuff from http://www.bodymindresources.com/Class1/Class1lab.htm
-- PT mobilized your first ribs & clavicles.
-- No surgery.

Did I miss anything?

Btw I noticed that the bodymindresources.com site has a starting page for TOS:

http://www.bodymindresources.com/car...acictheory.htm

pretty close - I did have 3 sets of PT sessions during the work comp part early on with the acute portion of my RSI/TOS.
Each session helped up to a point, and until I messed myself up doing heavy project at home...

I also used magnet wrist bands when I had severe RSIs (bi lateral wrist strain was the dx then) in 1999 along with MSM & a few other vitamins & supplements.
So in 2003 for the RSI/TOS combo I brought those things back into use again.
Also got a magnet necklace but it got heavy and irritating as the spasms and scalene tightness increased- same with the wrist magnet bracelets.

other things-
stopped doing almost anything with hands/arms for awhile at first as I had pain & weakness with any rotating (pronation) of the wrists.

nutrition
fluids
diaphragmatic breathing deep= belly breaths
my forearms were very affected at first so lots of ice/heat & rest for those -- but that was mostly before the whole upper body TOS stuff came into play
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