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Hello everyone. I was just curious if anyone has ever experienced problems with the first three fingers related to TOS. I know problems with the pinky and ring fingers are common. Thanks.

Yes, I have problems with all of the fingers on my right hand. The index finger gets especially stiff and painful sometimes.

I was diagnosed with TOS last year. The only positive test I had was the arterial doppler that shows my pulse diminished when my arms are in certain positions. My problems are mainly with the first three fingers (radial nerve). My neurologist said it's not as common, but still possible. I recently was looking into something called Triangular interval syndrome that is more specific to the radial nerve. Not a lot of info on the web, so I was thinking I might be making another Dr. appointment.

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I thought I heard it was possible. Thanks for your response, appreciate it.

Hello, possibly ask your physician if you can get a Nerve Conduction Study and the other study that gets done with it. If you haven't already had one. It may help to have more information regarding your nerves. Good Luck.

Trigger points and muscle tension can affect the nerves quite a bit, if those are present try some various therapies to resolve those before looking deeper into any kind of surgical option..

TrP info- sticky thread
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread125577.html

I'd hate for to to have a surgery and then find it was not the fix.

Unless the dr can show & prove that surgery is required of course..

There is also double & triple "crush" syndromes where you have TOS and carpal or cubital tunnel or all 3..

Forgot I had saved a web article that goes into great detail about TOS.

From the article:

Symptoms’ location most frequently reported in patients with TOS include paresthesia in the upper limb (98%), neck pain (88%), trapezius pain (92%), shoulder and/or arm pain (88%), supraclavicular pain (76%), chest pain (72%), occipital headache (76%), and parasthesias in all five fingers (58%), the fourth and fifth fingers only (26%) or the first–third fingers (14%):rolleyes:.

It uses a lot of medical terms that not everyone will understand, but if you want to read the whole thing:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...report=classic

It is possible but these symptoms are more commonly attributed to the cervical spine, carpal or cubital tunnel. Have you had a cervical MRI and EMG/NCV test?

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Hi, ya all my fingers & thumb. became very numb & stiff 6 mos. after tos surgery. Bf my surgery just my pinky & ring fingers were numb/ache. At my 6 mos followup my surgeon thinks its not related to tos. He said it could be CT /Double crush syndrome. I have same sx on other side too, but not as bad. My NCS tests were neg. but I feel like it was rushed & I don't think they tested all the nerves in arm.
To this day I have the same sx, but the pain in outside hand and last fingers is worse. I'm slowly increasing dose of neurotin 2x day for past 2mos. Getting little relief at nite, but using kindle seems to make it worse.
There's some really good websites u can find on this forum for tos sx

Definitely have it in the first three fingers...

Hey thanks for all the responses. And nospasm, yes I have had all of those tests done. Emg/ncv, mri of brachial plexus and cervical spine. All pretty much inconclusive other than a herniation at c5-c6 that is slightly pressing on nerves. The doctor said this wouldn't be causing my hand symptoms because its the wrong level. I also have horrible burning pain in shoulder blade and shoulder, which i think can be attributed to the herniation or TOS. Perhaps the herniation has weakened my shoulder and is causing the TOS? Most of my hand symptoms are evoked by raising my arm or any downward traction of the shoulder. I can actually just press down on my right shoulder with my left hand and my first three fingers will spasm if i try to move them, and i get pins and get pins and needles. Also get a feeling of weakness in my hand grip and random pains in the hand/fingers.