I've already considered Justin Brown. I'm just not comfortable with seeing a neurosurgeon who only does scalenectomies for this. I skipped Dr. Filler as well and Justin Brown seems to be along the same lines. It appears that Dr. Brown's team offers Filler's MR Neurography. The "
The UCSD Center for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome" seems to be for marketing purposes as I believe the vascular guys are better equipped to dealing TOS than neurosurgeons (My TOS is vascular and neurogenic). Niren Angle was the chief of vascular surgery at UCSD until 2010. The fact that Justin doesn't have a vascular surgeon on his team doesn't add to my comfort level. I haven't found a single person online who has had surgery with Dr. Brown. If I was convinced I only needed scalenectomy, I would definitely see these folks as they are covered by my insurance while Dr. Filler is not.
UCSD Center for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) and Upper Extremity Pain
Team members:
Neurosurgeon: Justin brown
Clinical neurodiagnostics: Geoffrey Sheean Intraoperative neurphysiology: Jeffrey Gertsch and the UCSD Interventional Neurophysiology Service
Radiology: Afshin Karimi (MRI of nerves), Tudor Hughes (ultrasound of nerves)
Pain medicine: Gregory Polston
Sports medicine: Natalie Voskanian
Specialist therapy for TOS: Carter McElroy
Basic science: Nigel Calcutt, Wendy Campana
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Originally Posted by olecyn
There is a new surgeon @ UCSD by the name of Justin Brown who we met with recently. He was with Washington University and received complicated post tramatic cases and TOS pts who did not fair well with post op TOS rib resection, etc surgeries. He uses a common sense approach relating to the peripheral nerves which are the "pain" receptors.
http://neurosurgery.ucsd.edu/justin-brown-md/ |
Olecyn, did you ever follow up with these folks?