[acsalvador]

Hello

Despite the EMG being normal, I was diagnosed with cubital tunnel syndrome, after an ecography. My ulnar nerve is mildly pinched at the elbow. I have had this problem for 3 years so, I'm considering surgery, since I can't bend my elbow nor perform my work.
I would like to ask you for some advice:

- statistically speaking what is the outcome of decompression surgery?
-why don't sometimes people get full recovery?Is it because surgery is a sort of placebo as Dr. Sarno/TMS theory states or is it because nerves don't fully recover?
-Can a pinched nerve compress other adjacent nerves? I think my radial nerve is also affected.
-Is there any drug under development that somehow reinforces myelin sheets so that nerves can handle compression better?


Thanks a lotfor your help,
Ac

[alt1268]

Oh I forgot to ask Have they done a QST test?

[acsalvador]

No, but I did a thermography which showed a kind of RSD.

I don't believe in EMG anymore. That's why I asked my neuro to do an ecography of the elbow. That's when I found that my ulnar nerve is compressed.
As people say an image is worth a thousand words. What's strange though is that this entrapment is causing neuropathic pain throughout my body, when I perform tasks that irritate my cubital nerve. I believe that RSD and idiopathic neuropathic pain are caused by a single nerve compression.

By the way, why isn't MRI neurography widely accepted? I told my neuro about it and he told me that it was a lie, no wonder that he earns money performing EMGs

Thanks
AC