About a year and 1/2 ago I started feeling pain in my right arm while working. I did acupuncture and it helped for awhile. Then I started getting sharp scalpular pain and was having trouble working . Last April I finally went to my Primary Care Dr. who sent me to PT. It wasnt helping and I could hardley finish the job I was on. II went back to the GP and insisted on an x-ray and a specialist . She sent me to an Orthpedidt who sent me for an MRI. The dignosis was C-5-6 Spinal Stenosis,moderate bulge Osteophytes,and Degenrative disc disease.He gave me Trigger pt injections, Medrol Dose pack and PT perscription and a nerve test.

Around September my Orthopedist mentioned possible TOS because of the numbness in my pinkie. I had never heard of it and immediatley googled it and said to myself thats me! I went to 3 different Neurosurgeons who recommended disc surgery but said I didnt have TOS.

Finally I decided in the New Year, after nothing was working, traction and exercises were making it worse. I was ready to have a spinal epidural or go for the surgery when I saw an ad in the newspaper that Kerlan Jobe was having. Something caught my eye. Dr. Williams and Dr. Dillon (spinal surgery) were talking about how common it is to misdiagnose disc problems
and something hit a nerve(no pun intended)

March- December 2011

1 GP
1 Orthopedist/Pain doctor
2 Acupunturists
2 Physical Therapists
2 Chiropractors-Both supposedly the best. (I spent about 4,000 on one who is a spine specialist)
1 Pilates
3 Neurosurgeons who recommended disc surgery and said I didnt have TOS.