Hi:

My daughter has been diagnosed with neurologic TOS and her vascular surgeon is sort of recommending surgery. He has been careful to not predict any outcomes, but claims that the only bad thing that could happen would be that the surgery would not work. She is having difficulty making up her mind to have the surgery because she read information on the internet that said that TOS is a complex surgery with potentially disabling outcomes. She feels that she could live with the way her hands are now, but the symptoms are really affecting her daily and work life. Also, she is a graduate student and is worried about having surgery in the summer before starting her program in September.

Does anyone have any advice about the outcomes of TOS surgery and how long the recovery period would be? The surgeon says that it would take about 4 weeks recovery.