Fair point, it's 20 years old. But "resulting from" means (to me) caused by the rib removal surgery. I guess it's pretty vague otherwise. But with even knowledge of that, who in their right mind would see surgery as a real possible fix for this. Just so deflating and hopeless. I wish the statistics were even just a little better.

I would speculate a "real" recovery statistic is more like 20% probability from nTOS decompression. That is just frustrating beyond all words that there can't be better odds. Sadly I'm at the place mentally where i'd even gamble with those odds. I'm that desperate.