Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
 

Has anyone ever seen Dr Stoxen, DC for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. He is in Chicago and he doesn't believe in surgery for TOS. He only sees one patient at a time and works on them for up to 16 hours a day. For out of town patients he works on you until you have no pain.

Sounds expensive. Link?

Dr Stoxen
 

I believe I found his name on this website. I had surgery that fixed part of my TOS. I have been told takes long time to recover. I would pay the 2,500 day if it cured my other TOS issues. Just wondering if it really works. I am only 45 with a 5 year old and I want my life back. I spent the last two days in bed due to the burning pain in my left arm and headaches. I want to live again.

I would be suspicious of anyone who says he works on you until you have no pain. TOS doesn't work like that. No one can guarantee no pain. Even for those with good surgical outcomes, I've heard very few claim they had no pain whatsoever.

I am trying to figure out if he is what he claims to be.
*edit*

I posted the link in another thread. Search Teamdoctors.com. sounds intriguing.

What do you think of this doctor and his theory on treating TOS?
I did talk to him. It was kinda one sided. I want to believe to get better but I am just not sure. I guess I will find out. I am going to speak to him again after he reviews some of my records. Thanks for posting the link again. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

This sounds really fishy to me. If you go the non-surgical route, you're looking at months upon months (or even years upon years) to get anywhere close to "pain free." As I understand. "pain-free" just doesn't happen. No doctor is going to work with you and only you for that amount of time.

Any doctor that 100% rules out surgery for TOS has his own interests in mind. He's trying to sell hope to people with TOS that don't want the grizzly surgery that comes along with it if they have a vascular form of TOS or neurogenic TOS that isn't responding to PT or other treatments. That's ridiculous. Not surgically treating vascular forms of TOS is a dangerous thing.

I'd run from this doctor and find one that has more moderate views on the matter. Any doctor that rules out a treatment entirely under all circumstances is a crock.

Well, he's not a medical doctor.

Surgery doesn't usually resolve all related factor for TOS pain & symptoms.

Myofascial pain, trigger points, other c spine issues, or spinal misalignment's, poor posture that contributes to a circle of pain.

If you can seek out a highly skilled and knowledgeable PT, or chiro, or body worker in your area, I think you will be better off with someone nearby.
The chiro I went to used a variety of modalities & manual therapies as well as adjustments to help me.
The other clients I talked to while in the waiting area all said they felt he had special skills.

It takes a lot of time to repair/resolve the damages from TOS , and a quicky round of treatment isn't going to last. IMO.