tos caused by bad sleeping position
 

i know most people here dont have this but for the .00000000001 percent

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309244/

True neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is an uncommon disease and is difficult to diagnose at the early stage and then completely cure. We experienced a case of true neurogenic TOS with typical clinical symptoms and electrophysiologic findings as a result of repetitive habitual sleep posture. A 31-year-old woman who had complained of progressive tingling sensation on the 4th and 5th fingers with shoulder pain was diagnosed of brachial plexopathy at the lower trunk level by electrodiagnostic studies. There was no other cause of brachial plexopathy except her habit of hyperabduction of shoulder during sleep. This case demonstrated that the habitual abnormal posture can be the only major cause of neurogenic TOS. It is of importance to consider TOS with the habitual cause because simple correction of the posture could stabilize or even reverse disease progress.
Keywords: Thoracic outlet syndrome, Neurogenic, Hyperabduction sleep

it doesnt sound like she got better but her pt sounded bad too, levator scapula strengthening.........REALLY? ouch

Given that they included some pics, I would have liked a pic of her exact sleeping pose.

My experience: I have been suffering ridiculous symptoms including head pain, neck pain, collarbone in my throat.. Back pain, kinking and crackling in my upper back. Even rib and hip pain. My left arm wasn't 100 percent functional but it still worked good enough. I thought I had a hockey injury and looked for a cracked bone for years. I even had deviated septum surgery because my sinuses and face were swollen. I did a simple tos neck exercise for the first time yesterday and the right side of my neck was so sore I couldn't move it and then my face and right side of my head became paralyzed. I also felt symptoms of a heart attack where everything got very stressful and any kind of noise made me feel scared and made my heart hurt and beat hard. I felt slight numbness or what I thought was numbness in my upper body, but it was probably relief of blood pressure dropping after uncompressing the nerve and blood vessel or artery in my neck. It also felt like my heart had backed up blood that it was trying to work out. The position of my heart seemed to move or become less stressed or the area around it became less swollen. Not only did I do The neck exercise but instead of sleeping how I normally do..and I didn't even realize how hunched forward I always was.. I decided to sleep on my side but stretched all the way back, which was extremely uncomfortable..but I could tell was good for me.. Strangely enough.. I woke up this morning totally sore with my left pinky feeling numb and hard to use along with a numb feeling inline with my left pinky up by my elbow on the back side of my forearm, but feeling more normal, I guess... And I say I guess because over the years I couldn't really tell it had lost sensation. Which is weird to think about. And I also woke up with the same issue happening to my right pointer finger and forearm and wrist inline with the right pointer finger.. So sleeping posture definitely causes tos. I also used to play lots of computer games on a desk that wasn't high enough where the keyboard sits. My neck, face, and upper skull in front and back feels completely less swollen and I'm hearing and feeling lots of movement in my jaw, skull, and adjacent neck area. Maybe this information will help someone else. I had always worked out and lifted weights which relieved symptoms temporarily, but the issue was always there and never went away. Now I am ridiculously sore while my muscles everywhere are resetting, deciding if I should return to the gym right away. I even had strange pains once in a while in my thigh/knees and slight heaviness in legs.